Recent Alba news

Online tyre retailer Blackcircles unveils new website Online tyre retailer Blackcircles has relaunched its website with Glasgow agency Become Interactive.

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Scottish telecoms company CIQUAL has been named Britain's top performing company to graduate from a business incubation centre.

CIQUAL and Alba Innovation Centre jointly entered the UKBI (UK Business Incubation) annual awards in the Graduated Business of the Year Category and lifted the prestigious title.  This new award was introduced to recognise those businesses who have successfully been through the business incubation process and are now flourishing outside the Business Incubator but are still engaging and contributing to it.

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Seven of the country’s most enterprising firms are bidding for a top prize to help them make it big in West Lothian. The Alba Innovation Challenge was launched over the summer in a bid to attract the country’s best innovators to West Lothian – Scotland’s Capital of Enterprise. The challenge was taken up by 25 aspiring companies over the Autumn, each one vying for the chance to win substantial business support and develop their idea in West Lothian.

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A Scottish company providing innovative business incubation services for fledging technology companies has been acclaimed as a model for the industry across Britain.

The praise for Innovation Centres Scotland (ICS) has come from the industry body UK Business Incubation (UKBI) who benchmarked their operations against its new accreditation standard.

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An exciting new business competition is to be launched in West Lothian – with a prize package of £50,000 on offer to the winning business. The Alba Innovation Challenge has been organised by West Lothian Council’s Business Gateway with the aim of finding and supporting innovative new businesses that can grow in West Lothian – despite the credit crunch.  Scottish Enterprise, Alba Innovation Centre, Springfords and MBM Commercial LLP sponsor the competition.

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