Ian Taylor, chief executive of oil and gas trader Vitol Plc, longstanding Conservative donor
Amount: £500,000
Quote: see story, right
Alan Savage, founder of Orion Group in Inverness, ex-chairman of Inverness CT football club
Amount: £100,000
Quote: "At a time when the world is facing economic uncertainty, it would be a huge risk for Scotland to go it alone.''
Gordon Baxter, late President of Baxter Food group
Amount: £10,000
Audrey Baxter: "My father believed firmly all his life in the United Kingdom."
Charles Richie, founder of Score Group in Peterhead
Amount: £50,000
Quote: "You cannot sit on the fence in matters of this critical importance."
John Dodd, co-founder of Artemis Fund Managers
Amount: £10,000
CJ Sansom, author of the Shardlake thrillers
Amount: £161,000
Quote: "I am very happy to have been able to make a contribution ... and to support keeping the UK intact."
Alan Massie, director of Carlton Rock Property Development Group
Amount: £15,000 in kind – office space
Quote: "I am proud to be Aberdonian, proud to be Scottish and proud to be British. I don't want that to change."
Sir Gerald Elliot, former chairman of Christian Salvesen Plc
Amount: £10,000
Quote: "I can find no good reason for dissolving this Union.''
Douglas Flint CBE, Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc
Amount: £25,000
Quote: "Better Together says it all."
Mark Tyndall, co-founder, senior partner of Artemis Fund Managers
Amount: £10,000
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