Here are the business stories making the headlines across Scotland and the UK this morning.
Toy maker Jellycat plans to pay owners £110m after profits double
Toy maker Jellycat is planning to pay its owners £110m in dividends after it more than doubled its annual profit in 2024.
From eggs with sad faces to smiling peanuts, the Jellycat craze has made a big impact on the toy industry.
Its viral cuddly toys are sold all over the world and made the company a before-tax profit of £139m in 2024, up from £67m the previous year.
Greggs set to raise prices again in response to cost pressures, says CEO
High street baker Greggs is set to raise the price of its breakfast meal deals and biscuits in response to growing cost pressures, the company's chief executive has said.
Roisin Currie said the price increases would kick in from Thursday.
She said the action was being taken in response to increased staffing costs, including the impact of an unexpected £20million increase in the amount it pays in employer National Insurance as a result of last year's Budget.
Private equity swoops for Costa Coffee with bid of up to £2bn
The world’s second-largest coffee chain after Starbucks has received a bid from the private equity house behind Gail’s and Pizza Express.
The special situations division of Bain Capital, an American investment firm with $185billion of assets under management, has submitted a first-round offer for Costa Coffee understood to be in the region of between £1.5billion and £2billion, after Coca-Cola put the UK’s biggest coffee chain up for sale.
The US drinks company bought the Costa business, which has more than 2,700 outlets in the UK and Ireland, from Whitbread for £3.9billion in 2018.