Each week Swindon Business News gives a prominent member of the area’s business community the last word on our weekly e-bulletin. This week Simon Tombs, managing partner of chartered accountancy firm Monahans, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? James Bond Spectre with the kids at the cinema. Book you...
Expanding Wiltshire recruitment company 24-7 Staffing has appointed a new associate director to its board. Paul Squires, pictured, joins co-directors Julian and Melody Thompson at the helm of the business, which they set up in 2004. The growing company has a head office in Chippenham, a branch in Yate, near Bristol, and another in...
Swindon-based Castles Residential Sales and Lettings’ managing director Mark Noble has become the new chapter president of Read BNI, part of the world's largest referral organisation. The Read Chapter has referred £791,853 worth of business in the past 12 months to its 31 members. During this period, Mark, pictured, held the important position of...
Swindon-based bookings agency Venues and Events International celebrated International Moment of Laughter Day by taking clients on a fun-filled trip to No Man’s Fort – a former sea defence in the Solent which has been converted into a four-star hotel. Allied Bakeries, Wates and Old Mutual Wealth joined Venues and Events International and hotel...
by Paul Marchment, SME development manager, Arval UK. Trawl through motoring headlines and you could well be forgiven for thinking the motoring world is perhaps a little… shall we say confused? On the one hand, car ownership is strong. According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), April has been a record...
Unemployment has continued to fall in the South West, bucking the national trend and pointing to a brighter outlook for the region’s businesses. But Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, warned the national rise signalled a slowing economy and could impact on firms in the Swindon area if the Government did not take...
Its work with community groups across Swindon has earned The Midcounties Co-operative, the UK’s largest independent co-operative society, a coveted 5-star rating in Business in the Community’s Corporate Responsibility (CR) Index. The society, whose businesses in Swindon span food, childcare, healthcare, travel, funerals and energy businesses, gained the status after investing more than £11m...
Swindon-based Nationwide Building Society is in the running for one the UK’s most prestigious and respected awards championing responsible business. The firm has been shortlisted in the Responsible Business of the Year category in the regional Responsible Business of the Year Awards, which celebrate inspiring examples of businesses that are making a significant difference...
Commercial law firm Thrings has advised on the acquisition of two landmark grade II-listed buildings that will help transform the historic heart of Gloucester. The agreement between Ladybellegate Estates – part of the L&R Group – and Gloucester City Council will lead to the restoration and refurbishment of two former merchants’ office buildings at...
Law firm Withy King, which has an office in Swindon, has strengthened its commercial property team with the appointment of solicitors Rhiannon Campbell and Richard Gorham. Rhiannon joins from the London office of US firm McGuireWoods. She has also worked for London and Bristol firm RPC and Bristol-based law firm Bevan Brittan. At Withy...
