B&Q, the UK’s largest home improvement and garden centre retailer, has awarded two major contracts to Chippenham-based logistics group Wincanton – extending an existing agreement to handle all its kitchen, bedroom and bathroom deliveries and managing its national distribution network. Wincanton, which has supported B&Q’s kitchen, bedroom and bathroom operations in the Midlands for...
Two high-profile appointments have been made to the board of the Swindon & Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), the strategic organisation aiming to drive economic growth in the area. Corsham-based digital agency GG Media Resources commercial director George Gill and Simon Patten, Swindon-based director of secure enterprise services at BT, join three new members...
The Brunel Centre, Swindon town centre’s largest retail scheme, has appointed Kevin Gwilliam as general manager. Kevin, pictured, has extensive experience of managing large department stores and shopping centres. He was most recently centre manager at the Crossgates centre in Leeds and has also managed centres in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Ashford and Wellingborough. Early in...
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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 Donna Gillingham, co-founder Ardour Recruitment, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Apocalypto. One of my favourites – amazing film. Book you read? Thomas the Tank Engine....
Bespoke kitchen specialist Manor Interiors is to boost production at its Swindon manufacturing plant by 50% after investing £1m in new hi-tech machinery. The increased capacity will create up to six jobs and enable Manor to expand its contracts business with some of the UK’s largest housebuilders as well as growing its network of...
Wiltshire law firm Bevirs Solicitors has joined Certainty – the National Will Register. Certainty, which is endorsed by the Law Society, provides an online space where people, charities, legal professionals and financial bodies can search for registered wills at low cost. Many people die intestate, or appear to be as wills can become lost...
Tile retailer Tileflair has acquired a unit on the Equity Trade Centre in Stratton St Margaret – ending a long search for an outlet in the Swindon area. The Bristol-based firm has bought 3,900 sq ft Unit 16, which was previously occupied by Zanussi Appliance World. Managing director Matthew Johnson said: “This will be...
Fast-growing Swindon specialist holiday firm Imagine Cruising is moving across the M4 to larger offices in Royal Wootton Bassett. The firm, which has expanded rapidly since its launch four years ago, has taken over the first floor in sound engineer Dolby’s showpiece Portland House office on the Interface Business Park. Emirates-owned Dnata Travel acquired...
An innovative battery that charges with electricity generated from solar panels is to make its first UK appearance thanks to Wiltshire agricultural equipment and construction material supplier TH White. The Tesla Powerwall is set to revolutionise how buildings use energy as it will allow homes to store solar energy generated during the day to...
