National accountancy firm RSM has appointed tax partner Elsa Littlewood to its Swindon office to help grow its private client offering. Elsa, who joins from regional firm Monahans’ Swindon office, specialises in private client tax, advising owner-managed businesses, wealthy families and rural businesses, particularly in the agricultural and international sectors. She will work closely...
A group helping employers and payroll professionals get to grips with compulsory workplace pensions will host North Swindon MP Justin Tomlinson at next month’s meeting. Swindon Friends of Automatic Enrolment (FoAE) have invited the MP to its meeting on January 15 where he will get the chance to gauge opinion about workplace pensions –...
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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 David Brown, managing director of Openit, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Spectre Book you read? The Bible – a new translation supposed to be more...
Swindon-based retailer Oak Furniture Land’s stellar expansion has lifted it further up a prestigious league table of the UK’s fastest-growing businesses. The privately owned firm, founded in 2004 by managing director Jason Bannister, is the only company to appear in the annual Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 for a fifth time. It has...
Confidence among professional services firms is at its highest for more than two decades with most planning to increase spending on recruitment, marketing and IT next year, according to a new survey. Some 99% of respondents to accountancy firm Smith & Williamson’s annual professional practices survey said they were positive about year ahead –...
Chippenham-based hi-tech engineering firm M+W Group is to help develop the UK’s largest waste-to-energy plant of its kind. When completed, the £200m Energy Works scheme in Kingston upon Hull will be able to generate up to 28MW of electricity a year by treating waste – enough to supply 40,000 homes. It will be the...
Two of Wiltshire’s leading mobile technology businesses have come together to create one of the UK’s largest firms in their fast-growing market. Mobile software firm M-Netics, which makes software that helps retailers and logistics businesses streamline their supply chains, has been acquired by the UK arm of US group Peak-Ryzex. Both firms are based...
Swindon-based not-for-profit adult social care and community health provider SEQOL has won a national award for its work supporting people with disabilities into paid employment. SEQOL’s supported employment team picked up the award for Innovation in Assessment at The Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative (RIDI) Awards which highlight progress made on disability in recruitment nationwide....
Innovative handmade furniture and shelving firm BespOak Interiors has relocated its workshop from Cirencester to a unit on the Lakeside Business Park in South Cerney as it continues to expand. BespOak Interiors was founded in September last year by insulation engineer Daniel Lee after friends and family encouraged him to turn his hobby into...
