Specialist music importer and distributor Discovery Records has been sold to a record label business which has vowed to continue to develop its niche operations. Discovery Records was set up in Devizes in 1978 to promote record labels from France in the UK. Over the years it expanded to import discs from most Western...
Swindon-based vehicle leasing group Arval has signed an agreement with the FSB (Federation of Small Businesses) to provide its 200,000 members with the best advice on how to source and manage their business cars and vans. The dedicated online portal has been developed by Arval and the FSB to help managers without expertise in...
Swindon is looking into developing economic links with the US city of Mentor following a visit here by a civic delegation. The dignitaries from the Ohio city came to Swindon on the back of the £1.2bn acquisition of Windmill Hill-based international medical sterilisation group Synergy Health by Steris, one of Mentor’s largest healthcare employers....
UTAX (UK), the Shrivenham-based office equipment supplier, has continued to expand by creating seven jobs across the business. The new joiners take the total workforce at the firm, which specialises in document management products such as printers and copiers, to 50. The firm is supporting its growing partner network – one of the UK’s...
Design and print specialist Jason Stickley will aim to debunk some myths about his industry when he talks to Swindon networking group Business Village. Jason, of Swindon-based Artwork & Design Solutions, will deliver a presentation called ‘The Graphic Truth – all the jargon unravelled’ at the group’s breakfast meeting tomorrow (May 7). Jason said:...
Electrical contractor Abbey Electrical is to relocate to a larger base on the Shrivenham Hundred Business Park as it continues to expand. The 10-year-old firm, previously based in nearby Watchfield, has secured the long leasehold sale of Unit 58 on the popular business park through the Swindon office of property consultants Alder King. The...
Swindon-based chartered accountancy firm Banks BHG has made two new appointments as it continues to strengthen its team. Pammi Khaira joins as a tax assistant and Esha Akram becomes an account trainee. Pammi worked at HMRC for 18 years, joining from college and working largely in debt management. She said: “HMRC are a good...
Swindon-based independent recruitment agency Mainline Employment has been sold to a West Midlands-based group. Mainline was launched in Swindon in1990 by owner Stella Weeks and later went on to expand into Bristol where it has two offices. It now employs 40 people and is one of the leading independent recruitment agencies in the South...
Property finance provider Cambridge & Counties Bank is gearing up for growth in the South West by hiring a new staff member and promoting another in its business development team. Paul Howard, pictured right, who opened the bank’s South West office in Bristol last year, is promoted to senior business development manager. He is...
David Cameron will be returned to Downing Street as the leader of a Conservative government with a very small majority, former Tory minister turned Strictly Come Dancing contestant Ann Widdecombe predicted at a business event in the region. That, she said, could pave the way for the new government to repeal the Fixed-Term Parliaments...
