Dairy Crest, the struggling milk and butter firm, sold its French margarine business St Hubert for £344million to pay off debts and focus on UK expansion.
RBS boss Stephen Hester has given up his bonus - worth up to £2.4million - for a second year in a row after the bank's computer meltdown entered its 11th day and with mounting financial scandals causing uproar.
Martin Gilbert, one of Scotland’s best-known businessmen, is nearly £2.5m richer after selling 1m shares in Aberdeen Asset Management, where he is chief executive.
More than 100 UK jobs are set to be lost after 3i, which holds £10.5bn of investments worldwide including a stake in fashion retailer Hobbs, laid out a scheme to slim down the firm.
The long bank holiday caused by the Diamond Jubilee boosted underlying sales at stores opened for more than a year by 3.1 per cent in the 16 weeks between March 4 and June 23.
The Shareholder Spring claimed one of its most resounding victories yet as Xstrata was forced to tear up and redraw loyalty bonuses attached to its £50bn merger with Glencore.