Directors at SciSys, the Chippenham-based specialist IT firm, have insisted its recovery is now well established and last year’s problems are behind it. In a trading update to the London Stock Exchange this week, they said they were encouraged by the group’s performance in the second half of 2015 and its underlying results this...
UTC Swindon principal Angela Barker-Dench is to speak at the first Women in Industry event, which is being hosted by the college tomorrow. The event, which is open to women who work, or would like to work, in all sectors, is an opportunity to hear about the career journeys of prominent women working in...
Wiltshire-based international automotive learning and development agency RTS Group has moved to larger offices to accommodate future growth. The firm has relocated its headquarters from central Chippenham to a new suite of offices in nearby Notton. RTS was set up in 1989 and has grown to a head office team of more than 40...
Alan Bennett, a partner at West of England law firm Ashfords, has become the new for the South West & Wales chair of R3, the insolvency trade body. In his new role Alan, pictured, a partner in Ashfords’ restructuring and insolvency team, will provide support to R3 members in the region, helping them promote...
Swindon’s commercial property market has enjoyed its best year since before the recession, according to a new report. Take-up of industrial buildings more than doubled in 2015 while the office market was also strong, property agents Alder King’s latest Market Monitor shows. That has further heightened the need for speculative development, particularly in...
Innovative tech and household appliance group Dyson’s general counsel and company secretary Martin Bowen has been named as one of the UK’s top 100 lawyers. Martin Bowen, pictured, who joined the Malmesbury-based international in 1998 – five years after inventor Sir James Dyson founded the business – appears on the Hot 100 list compiled...
Rockhaven Park – one of only two speculative small industrial developments under construction in Swindon – has secured its first occupier before it has even completed. Morrells Wood Finishes, which supplies advanced wood coatings to furniture manufacturers, is to move into one of the 19 units on the scheme on the edge of Kembrey...
Swindon Council is seeking the views of the town’s businesspeople as it prepares its latest budget. Council leader David Renard has extended a formal invitation to employers to attend a meeting on Wednesday, January 27, to discuss the council’s budget proposals for 2016/17. At the meeting senior council members and officers will discuss issues...
Firms in Swindon’s financial and professional services sector are being encouraged to get involved in a taskforce dedicated to improving skills in the industry. The taskforce will give companies operating in the sector a chance to work directly with educational training providers in Swindon to address the skills shortages in the town. By taking...
Regional law firm Withy King’s annual Meet the Team event in Swindon last week attracted around 100 members of the town’s business community. The gathering at The Old Bank in Old Town gave attendees their first chance of 2016 to get together and network – and also offered Withy King’s Swindon and Marlborough-based staff...
