Businesses can get an expert’s view on climate change and the impact of the recent Paris Agreement at business networking group Rekindle’s meeting tomorrow. Leading environmentalist and authority on global warming Sir Crispin Tickell, pictured, will explain the implications of last December’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris and global problems related to...
A talk entitled Fine Tuning Your Instinct for People will be delivered to Swindon networking group Business Village at its meeting on March 3. Avril Porter, pictured, who runs Wiltshire-based HR consultancy The Human Resource, will deliver the presentation at the group’s weekly breakfast meeting. Avril, who has more than 30 years’ experience in...
Regional accountancy firm Monahans has appointed Karen Cooper as rural manager in its Swindon-based rural and landed estates team. Karen, pictured, has joined from Swindon firm Morley & Co. She previously trained and qualified as a chartered accountant in 2010 while with national firm RSM’s Swindon office. In her new role she will assist in...
A firm’s intellectual property (IP) – its trademarks, branding, designs etc – are vital to its success and must be registered as part of any business plan, Swindon companies will be told. At a free breakfast presentation on March 2, hosted at chartered accountants Banks BHG, the Intellectual Property Office’s Dave Hopkins, pictured, will...
Monday 22 February Interims: Dechra Pharmaceuticals, MJ Gleeson, Petra Diamonds Finals: Bovis Homes, HSBC, XP Power Trading statement: Associated British Foods EGM: Immupharma Economics: CBI trends – total orders, selling prices Tuesday 23 February Interims: BHP Billiton, dotDigital, Genus, Pan African Resources Finals: Croda International, Drax, GKN, InterContinental Hotels, John Wood, Morgan Advanced Materials,...
A team from the Swindon office of commercial law firm Thrings has advised the shareholders of specialist timber importer and merchant T Brewer on its acquisition by UK and Ireland-based building materials business Grafton Group. T. Brewer has been supplying timber to the London and the Home Counties construction markets since 1888. It trades...
Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, has again called on the Government to do more to tackle youth joblessness and the skills crisis following another fall in unemployment. Figures released earlier this week by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show unemployment in the South West is now the lowest in the country after...
Swindon is to get its first – and much needed – creative co-working space when Desk Cowork opens in Old Town next month. The 100 sq m (1,076 sq ft) open plan office will offer flexible, ad-hoc or monthly desk space for entrepreneurs above The Core on Devizes Road. Desk Cowork’s founder Matt Greenwood...
Swindon Business News is once again backing one of the top business awards schemes recognising excellence and enterprise in the region’s boardrooms. The annual Institute of Directors’ South West Director of the Year Awards showcase outstanding leaders and entrepreneurs and focus UK-wide attention on success in the region. Over recent years the awards have become established...
Be Wiser, the insurance group due to create 350 jobs when it opens an office in Swindon this spring, has been named as one of the country’s leading employers of apprentices. The firm, which has employed more than 250 apprentices, was awarded the Newcomer – Large Employer of the Year accolade at the National...
