With just two days to go, the Festival of Female Entrepreneurs is shaping up to be one of the biggest business events in the West this year. Hundreds of business owners – men and women – will descend on the Colston Hall in Bristol this Thursday for the one-day entrepreneurial extravaganza. Tickets to the keynote...
Around 500 jobs are to be created by Honda at its Swindon plant ahead of it exporting its top-selling Civic 5-door model to the US next summer, the car giant revealed this morning. The jobs boost follows the announcement in March of a £200m upgrade of the plant to make it the global manufacturing...
Swindon-based recruitment firm C&D Group is looking for growth in the food industry after obtaining a Gangmasters’ licence – a standard that recognises its commitment to protecting workers from exploitation. The licence scheme, run by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA), regulates businesses that provide workers to industries such as agriculture, horticulture, forestry, and food...
Svensoni, the Swindon-based paraplanning firm, is continuing to expand outside its home town by opening a larger office in Berkshire. The new Ascot office replaces a smaller base in nearby Camberley and will be able to accommodate Svensoni’s increasing volume of work and growing client list. Svensoni, which was launched in 2010 by CEO...
Employment solicitor Helen Lucas has joined the Swindon office of law firm Withy King, bringing with her more than 15 years’ experience of providing advice and support to employers and individuals. Helen, pictured, became a solicitor in 2005 having previously qualified as a legal executive in 2000. She advises on all aspects of employment...
Monday 19 October Finals: Inland Homes AGMs: City of London Investment Group, CPL Resources EGM: Microsaic Systems Economics: Rightmove house prices Tuesday 20 October Interims: Quantum Pharmaceuticals, Whitbread Final: Asos Trading statements: Genel Energy, Go-Ahead, Informa, InterContinental Hotels, McBride, Pentair, Petropavlovsk AGMs: Frontier Developments, McBride, Scancell EGM: RM2 International Wednesday 21 October Interims: Development...
Swindon lawyer Rebecca Stevens gained further recognition for her high-profile pro bono work – this time at the prestigious Bristol Law Society annual legal awards. Rebecca, pictured, a member of Withy King’s family team, landed the Pro Bono Individual of the Year title in front of 370 guests at a dinner and awards ceremony...
The West of England’s small and medium-sized firms are leading the UK for job creation with more than two thirds planning to recruit more staff and SME manufacturers are committed to investing in their workforce over the next 12 months, according to two new surveys. The upbeat findings, from the latest HSBC Commercial Banking...
Graduate surveyor Josh Bryant has been appointed by national property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) to bolster its growing South West-based lease advisory team. Josh, pictured, graduated last year with a first-class honours degree in Property Investment and Management from the University of the West of England (UWE), which included a one-year placement in...
Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, welcomed recent figures showing the South West leading the fall in unemployment – but warned that more needs to be done to get young people into work. Phil Smith, managing director of Business West, which runs the Swindon & Wiltshire Initiative, also said the figures masked a...
