Upmarket women’s and menswear retailer Brocks is to open a branch in Marlborough after taking a unit in the town’s Hughenden Yard scheme. The letting by Swindon property agent Kilpatrick & Co means only one unit is left available in Hughenden Yard. Brocks, which already has shops in Stow-on-the-Wold, Cirencester and Bath, is now...
Alliance Pharma, the highly-acquisitive speciality pharmaceutical company, has around £22m on tap to add to its growing portfolio of branded medicines and treatments, it said this week. The undrawn funds are available in its bank facility, the Chippenham-based firm announced in a pre-close trading update to the London Stock Exchange ahead of its interim...
A strong order intake from the US, including contracts worth £25m with the Pentagon, has helped Wiltshire-based manufacturer Avon Rubber overcome the impact of the strong pound. The firm, whose core respirator products are used by the military and emergency services, also benefited from buoyant orders for its dairy industry products, which are used...
Swindon businesses are being warned of a new computer virus with the potential to lock down their systems and hold them to ransom. The alert comes from Sensata, the Royal Wootton Bassett-based IT services firm, which believes the CTB-Locker bug is more potent and resilient than the recent, much-publicised Cryptolocker virus and presents a...
Commercial property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) is expecting further growth for its West-based public sector division following the appointment of Jaime Blakeley-Glover as regional director. Jaime, pictured, who joined LSH in 2011, takes on the role alongside his current national position of consultancy director within public sector services. LSH has recruited seven staff...
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Swindon and Wiltshire’s successes in attracting job-creating foreign inward investment has been welcomed by the leaders of the area’s Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), Swindon Council and Wiltshire Council. Swindon Business News revealed last week that 10 new investment projects were started by overseas companies in 2013/14 in the LEP area, creating 186 jobs and...
A Wiltshire garden centre business owned by the same family since opening in 1884 is future-proofing itself against spiraling energy costs and enhancing its green credentials after securing £400,000 funding from Barclays. Whitehall Garden Centre at Lacock near Chippenham, which also owns and operates a site near Bristol, is installing three biomass energy cabins...
Swindon start-up Amaroc, which is focussing on the fast-growing external wall insulation (EWI) and render trade, opens the doors to its new state-of-the-art showroom and training facility this Saturday. The firm, which recently opened the site on the River Ray Industrial, has also launched a new e-commerce website after forming partnerships with the leading...
Swindon recruitment agency Field has appointed Emma Ryder as service delivery manager with a brief to take the business to a national level. The firm, which this year celebrates its 40th anniversary, has recently invested in new cloud-based IT which enables staff to work anywhere, at any time, and access all the company’s systems....
