Swindon executive travel company Flightlink has continued to expand its fleet with the addition of three new Mercedes E-Class cars. The vehicles, representing a total investment of around £100,000, have also strengthened the Cheney Manor-based firm’s partnership with dealer Mercedes-Benz of Swindon. Flightlink has officially partnered with Mercedes-Benz of Swindon, which operates from a...
Swindon’s Regent Circus retail and leisure scheme has appointed Steve Bizley as centre manager. Regent Circus, which opened on February 14, includes a state-of-the-art Cineworld cinema, Morrisons supermarket and five restaurants – ASK Italian, Coal, Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Nando’s and Prezzo – as well as two car parks. Steve, who was born just three...
Making money from property investment will be the focus of a talk to an upcoming meeting of Swindon networking group Business Village. Danny Matthews, a mortgage and protection adviser with Total Mortgage Network, will speak at the group’s weekly Thursday meeting on June 4. Danny, pictured, said: “There have been a lot of changes...
Strategic communications and PR agency Soaring Worldwide has won a contract with Grass Roots Meetings & Events, part of the world’s leading employee and customer engagement group. Cirencester-based Soaring Worldwide will predominantly work alongside the meetings and events arm of the business. Grass Roots divisional director Des Mclaughlin said Soaring Worldwide’s knowledge of the...
Innovative Swindon IT firm Stilo International has landed a three-year $756,000 (£486,000) contract with a major US firm. The order, for its cloud content conversion service Stilo Migrate, has come from a ‘major semiconductor manufacturer’, the Windmill Hill-based firm said without naming the company. The first payment of $265,000 is due this year. Stilo,...
Wroughton Business Park is now fully occupied after national courier group Diamond Logistics moved into the last remaining unit. Guildford-based Diamond has taken 2,550 sq ft Unit 8 on a five-year lease in a deal secured by the Swindon office of South West property agents Alder King on behalf of private clients. The quoting...
The Chippenham Business Improvement District (BID), the organisation promoting the town to bring in more visitors and improve it for residents, has appointed Ben Gregory as deputy chair. Mr Gregory, pictured, a director at printing firm Digiprint, will work closely alongside BID chair Melody Thompson, who is a director of recruitment firm 24-7 Staffing....
Levi Roots, the Reggae Reggae Sauce entrepreneur who secured investment from Dragons’ Den, and Gerald Ratner, the jewellery group boss who came back from the business wilderness, were the star attractions of Business Showcase South West 2015. But the two-day event at Bristol’s Colston Hall last Thursday and Friday was also a great networking...
Monday 18 May Interim: Future Finals: Babcock International, blinkx, Cranswick, E2V Technologies, Mitie Trading statement: Interserve AGMs: Bioquell, Centamin, Ensco, Fresnillo, TMT Investments EGMs: Flowgroup, Horizon Discovery Economics: Rightmove house prices Tuesday 19 May Interims: Impax Asset Management, Innovation, Intelligent Energy, Paragon Group of Companies, Renew, Topps Tiles, Victrex, Zytronic Finals: Aveva, Big Yellow,...
Be the best you can be because you are the most important thing about your business, Reggae Reggae Sauce entrepreneur Levi Roots told a captivated audience at Business Showcase South West. Levi drew on his own remarkable journey from youth offender to singer and then Dragons’ Den success story to inspire delegates during his...
