Herald Business LIVE: Today's top stories - October 12

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• Good afternoon, welcome to The Herald's Business live blog, where we’ll be bringing you the latest developments from across Scotland.
• Edinburgh's Panda & Sons wins global cocktail menu award
• 'World's largest market' offers hope for Scotch whisky amid global volatility
• Savills names new Scottish country house and Glasgow heads
• Aldi to invest £19.5m in Scotland and open new store
• Concept Life Sciences appoints Dr Adrijana Vinter as CEO
• Prestwick aircraft repair facility to benefit from £57 million investment
• Fifth-generation Scottish sawmill firm unveils rise in revenue to £85.6m
• HSBC survey finds 68 per cent of UK firms plan to hire more staff
• Popular retailer to recruit more than 1,000 Christmas staff across Scotland
• Edinburgh guest house for sale after 24 years as owners retire
• Union warns SNP may weaken no compulsory redundancy policy
• £35m Heriot-Watt brewing hub could create 1,570 jobs and boost economy by £53m a year
• Scots urged to pay heed to upcoming tax return deadlines
• Listed church hall near brewery could be demolished to make way for flats