The Greenock Ledger is an independent business journal for Greenock and Inverclyde. It covers the economy of the area in four desks: public funding and business rules in Business Support and Funding in Scotland, local companies in Inverclyde Companies, the port and the river in The Port of Greenock and the Clyde, and workforce training in Skills and the Young Workforce. Everything the journal publishes is gathered at the news index.

What the journal is

The Ledger is a reader supported, advertising free journal written in the third person. It sells nothing, runs no paid placements and belongs to no trade body or political party. Its method is plain: read the primary sources, name the facts, date the writing, and link the source so the reader can verify. Coverage of every company, agency, scheme and organisation is written from the outside, as a reporter writes, never as a participant speaks.

The address and its history

This domain, greenockchamber.co.uk, carries a long commercial history. For years it published the news and services of the Greenock Chamber of Commerce, the merchants' organisation founded in the town in 1813, which later worked as the Inverclyde Chamber of Commerce. That organisation is active today and publishes from its own address, inverclydechamber.co.uk, where its membership services and events live. The Greenock Ledger is a separate, independent publisher that acquired this domain and continues a version of its oldest habit, business news for Greenock, without any connection to the chamber. The long trading story of the town, from the sugar century to the cruise age, is told in From Sugaropolis to the Cruise Age.

Editorial standards

Every factual claim in the journal traces to a public source or a verifiable record, and where the journal reads uncertainty into a figure, it says so. Pieces are dated on publication and revisited when the rules they describe change. Numbers are printed when they can be verified and withheld when they cannot. Corrections are welcome through the contact page, are made in the text, and are not buried.

Who writes it

The journal is written by the Greenock Ledger editorial desk, a collective byline, working with named public records and company announcements. It does not employ staff writers who claim bylines they have not earned, and it does not publish pieces under invented persons. Where a piece relies on the record left by this domain's previous publisher, the chamber news archive, it says so plainly, as the history pieces do.

How to use the journal

A reader with a business decision in Inverclyde can start from the desk that matches the question and follow the linked sources with their own numbers in hand. An owner planning a bid reads A Practical Guide to Small Business Grants in Scotland; a trader checking a rates bill reads Business Rates Relief in Scotland, Explained; an employer hiring reads Apprenticeships in Inverclyde: the Routes In. The journal keeps these pages current to the date each carries, and the primary sources they link remain the final word.