Here are the business stories making the headlines across Scotland and the UK this morning.
The Atrium to open second location in Aberdeen city centre
The well-known restaurant, The Atrium, is set to take over The Townhouse on Golden Square.
The current restaurant opened in the former Howies building on Chapel Street in 2023 by the Clark family, prominent North-east restaurateurs.
Now, The Atrium will be opening a new location at 1 Golden Square on November 22 and will be known as The Atrium at the Townhouse.
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BBC hit The Traitors provides £22m boost to the economy
Never let it be said that treachery does not pay. The comedian Alan Carr netted more than £80,000 — for a good cause — when he won The Celebrity Traitors last week. But the show, one of the most watched on British television, is also proving a nice little earner for Scotland.
Figures from the BBC show that The Traitors, which is filmed at Ardross Castle near Inverness, has boosted the country’s economy by £21.8million since it began three years ago.
It has also, the broadcaster says, sustained about 750 jobs. The new BBC report comes as the corporation has faced scrutiny about how much it is spending north of the border.
Trump threatens to sue BBC for $1 billion over Panorama speech edit
President Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for $1billion over a “doctored” speech as senior figures within the corporation remained defiant over the crisis.
The corporation’s chairman, Samir Shah, apologised on Monday for the “error of judgment” in a Panorama documentary which aired last year and has led to the resignation of Tim Davie, the director-general, and Deborah Turness, chief executive of news.
Shah said that there had been more than 500 complaints about the programme, which gave the impression that Trump made a “direct call for violent action” because two separate sections of his speech before the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021, were spliced together.
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Drinks brand Trip valued at over $300m
The Brazilian model Alessandra Ambrosio and the American musician Joe Jonas are among the celebrities taking part in a $40million investment in the UK drinks brand Trip, valuing it at over $300million.
Founded by the former lawyer Olivia Ferdi and her husband Daniel Khoury in 2019, the brand’s pastel coloured cans and supplements are now stocked in 50,000 shops in Britain, the US, France and the Netherlands. It plans to use the new funding to fuel its rapid expansion in America.
Ferdi, 36 this month, its chief executive, said revenues of £27.8million in the year to February 2025 —when it made its first annual profit — were on track to reach £76million ($100million) in 2026.