1.   Two Scottish companies have opened new European branches with assistance from the German partner in the project.

2.   GDA also led an initiative to allow Scottish companies to identify opportunities in the defence market, still the largest single market in the UK.

3.   She works with Scottish companies, promoting HCIMA membership, management development and the accreditation of in-company courses.

4.   Over the past seven years, funds under management by Scottish companies have risen nearly threefold.

5.   Fortunately Scotland has always had a fine reservoir of comic talent and so I found the idea of letting a Scottish company loose on these plays totally irresistible.

6.   SCOTTISH companies should benefit from the decision to host the ninth Europartenariat in Glasgow later this year, Allan Stewart, the Scottish industry minister, said yesterday.

7.   For the last few years Weir has been one of the most consistent performers of any quoted Scottish company, with a steady improvement in sales and profits.

8.   With that background it is equally unsurprising to learn that Weir was the most highly-regarded Scottish company in the London business pages.

9.   In other words, those Scottish companies covered are far more highly rated pro-rata.

10.   A Scottish company, PPL Therapeutics, announced Tuesday that its scientists had cloned a pig, creating five identical piglets.