Law firm Thrings marked a decade in its Drakes Meadow office in Swindon with a party for fellow professionals and business people from the town. Photographer: Paul Stallard of Candid Pictures – paul@candidpictures.co.uk 01249 824747 – 07715 770244 Click here to open the gallery.
Energy firms from around Swindon and Wiltshire can find out how to benefit from international opportunities at a renewable energy roadshow later this month. With growing demand for renewable and alternative energy across the globe, potential export markets are opening up for businesses in the industry – a key sector for the West of...
Swindon-based equipment hire company Rapid Hire (Swindon) has been fined for continuing unsafe working practices and ignoring safety warnings from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Chippenham Magistrates heard yesterday that HSE served four Improvement Notices on the firm in October last year for failing to provide adequate training for forklift trucks operators and...
Three Swindon firms have been named among the six finalists for accountants PwC’s West of England Business of the Year Awards 2012 – the region’s most prestigious business competition. Since their launch 24 years ago the awards, which this year are staged in association with Swindon Business News, have gained a reputation built firmly...
First City Nursing Services, the Swindon-based care and nursing staff agency, has bought Rowan House, a two-storey office building in Stratton St. Margaret, from Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership. The business, which supplies nurses and care assistants for private individuals’ home care and to nursing and care homes, is to use the 2,353...
Just under 500 small businesses are responsible for much of the South West’s economic growth and are creating vital wealth and jobs, according to a new report. These 490 high-growth firms represent only 5.1% of all small businesses in the region, yet they play an extraordinary role in boosting the economy, reveals research by...
