National property advisory firm GVA has appointed Jo Davis to head its South West office. Jo, who also leads the firm’s planning team covering the South West and South Wales, becomes one of nine regional senior directors at GVA – the title given to those heading UK offices. In an industry where senior positions...
Each week Swindon Business News gives a prominent member of the area’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Malcolm Miller, managing director of Chippenham-based learning and development consultancy RTS Group, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? I re-watched Up In The Air with George...
Innovate UK, the Swindon-based public body promoting innovation, has appointed Dr David Grant CBE as interim chief executive. Dr Grant replaces Iain Gray, who left on December 31 after seven years at the helm of the organisation, which is sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills. Innovate UK was set up as...
Swindon’s economic performance has failed to keep pace with its population growth, a major new report out today shows – leaving the town struggling to compete with the UK’s largest towns and cities. While the town’s population increased by 14.8% between 2004 and 2013, it was one of the worst performers for jobs growth...
Swindon performs well in terms of its proportion of private sector jobs . . . and its business growth. Its population growth is also above average But it is one of the worst performers for jobs growth . . . particularly private sector jobs
Specialist restructuring firm Quantuma has expanded into the South West with an office headed by former BDO regional head Graham Randall. The firm, which already operates from bases in Southampton, Marlow, London and Brighton, has opened a Bristol office to provide specialised restructuring advice on all forms of insolvency procedures. Until recently Mr Randall,...
Monday 19 January Interim: Conviviality Retail Trading statement: Evraz EGM: BSD Crown Economics: Rightmove house prices, CBI trends – total orders, selling prices, business optimism Tuesday 20 January Interim: IG Group Final: Unilever Trading statements: BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto EGM: IS Solutions Wednesday 21 January Trading statements: Diploma, Dixons Carphone, Computacenter, FirstGroup, Halfords, Hochschild...
Alternative finance provider South West Investment Group (SWIG) has appointed two non-executive directors to the board of its fund-holding arm as it looks to raise its profile in the West of England. Malachy McReynolds and Graham Miller join the existing directors at the group which since 1996 has invested £15m in to more than...
Shares in Swindon-based car dealer group Cambria Automobiles raced ahead by more than 9% after it said it expects its half-year profits to have increased “significantly”. The group, which owns 28 dealerships, representing 45 franchises and 18 brands, including Swindon Motor Park, also said in a trading update ahead last week's annual meeting that...
Swindon’s Designer Outlet shopping centre massively outperformed the UK retail market with a 16% year-on-year sales increase during the all-important Christmas period, figures from owner McArthurGlen show. Trading between November 6 and December 28 in the 90-unit centre on a like-for-like basis – which excludes new retail space – climbed by 13%. The data...
