

The city's licensing board forced the venue to close for a week because of the risk of "predatory behaviour" towards women, then ordered the club to remove the two-way mirror and put its staff through equalities training as a licensing condition. The Shimmy Club in Glasgow, which is a Scotsman Group, hit headlines in 2013 after an ill judged design decision meant that patrons could view the hand wash area of the ladies toilets.

The Scotsman Group expanded into Edinburgh in 2011 after investing almost £30 million in acquiring a number of Edinburgh pubs.

In 2011, the Group moved into the former BBC headquarters in Queen Margaret Drive, which was built in 1869 and had housed BBC Scotland between 19. In 2005, the Scotsman Group branched out into the leased pub business, with the launch of The IONA Pub Partnership. In 1999, the Group opened The Corinthian Club in Glasgow, which would become their flagship venue in the city. The Scotsman Group's first venue, Club X on Royal Exchange Square in Glasgow, was opened in 1990.
