Specialist learning and development group RTS is staging training courses to help car dealerships get to grips with the biggest change in consumer rules to affect the motor trade for decades. The new Consumer Rights Act will give buyers of new and second-hand cars more power to demand full refunds if the vehicle is...
VHO, the Swindon-based specialist telemarketing firm, is planning to move to larger offices after having more than doubled its staff numbers over the past six months. The firm, a business-to-business lead generation company specialising in technology and catering for the large number of technology-based businesses setting up in or relocating to the town, has...
Swindon digital agency Smarter Media has expanded its team with the appointment of marketing apprentice Edward White. Edward joins as the agency continues its impressive growth. It now looks after the digital and marketing interests of more than 100 local and national clients with services ranging from SEO, social media, web design and development...
Swindon-based construction company Beard has completed a much-needed new primary school in the town ahead of schedule. The long-established firm worked with the Clifton Diocese and Swindon Borough Council on the 10,760 sq ft (1,998 sq m) building for Holy Cross School in Queens Drive, pictured below. Constructed as a design-and-build project, the building...
Solicitor Peter Shah has joined the civil litigation team at Bevirs, one of Wiltshire's oldest law firms. Peter, pictured, who works from Bevirs’ Swindon office in Regent Circus, will support clients with advice on civil matters including disputed wills, personal injury, professional and clinical negligence. He moved to Bevirs from Wiltshire firm Awdry Bailey...
First-time exporters from the Swindon area are being invited to explore opportunities in the fast-growing Central and Eastern Europe markets by taking part in a trade mission to Poland in October. The trip to Warsaw between October 6 and 8 is dedicated to building connections and learning on how to sell goods and services...
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Corporate team-building days usually mean a tug of war, paintballing or making a raft out of cardboard tubes. But Guyers House, the privately owned, four-star country house hotel near Corsham, is hoping to create a buzz around its latest offering – a day dedicated to learning about bees and beekeeping. Eight senior executives from...
Swindon-based recruitment firm C&D Group is expanding its presence in its home town and opening a base in London ahead of its 20th anniversary next year. The firm, founded in 1996 by managing director Karen Davison, is relocating its town centre office from Regent Circus across Commercial Road to newly refitted premises on the...
Low-cost airline Wizz Air is to launch flights to a third destination from Bristol Airport, adding Slovakian city Kosice to Katowice in Poland and Bulgarian capital Sofia to its route network. Flights to Kosice, which in 2013 jointly held the title of European Capital of Culture, start in October and will operate twice weekly....
