Four Wiltshire businesses have become the first to receive grants to support further growth, thanks to funding secured by the Swindon and Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP). The funding, worth a total of £127,191, has gone to Calne-based 1st Choice Stairlifts, Devizes-based Country Candle Company, interior design company Procol, based in Melksham, and Power...
Directors in firms across Swindon and Wiltshire have less than two weeks to enter the region’s top business awards that recognise boardroom excellence and enterprise. The South West Institute of Directors (IoD) Awards 2014 are open to anyone working at director level in any type of business or organisation – they do not have...
Monday 17 March Interims: Regenersis, Tracsis Finals: Brady, Forbidden Technologies, Hydrogen Group, Smart Metering Systems EGMs: Costain, Interserve Economics: Rightmove house prices Tuesday 18 March Interim: Quoram Finals: Antofagasta, Bango, Bioquell, Cairn Energy, Capital Drilling, Clarke (T), Gem Diamonds, Mears, Mecom, Resolution, SDL, Source Bioscience, UTV Media, Xaar, Zotefoams Trading statements: Asos, Berkeley Group,...
Chippenham-based drug development firm Vectura today strengthened its position in the respiratory diseases treatment market with the €130m (£108m) acquisition of specialist German pharmaceutical company Activaero. Privately-owned Activaero’s proprietary smart nebuliser-based technology targets drugs at particular areas of the lung. It is currently part in seven clinical and several pre-clinical stage programmes. Vectura, which...
Swindon town centre is entering its largest and most exciting period of regeneration for more than half a century with a new commercial district, cultural quarter and leisure and entertainment area planned for the next few years. As a result the central area will become a vibrant heart for the town – attracting new...
Exports by West firms are growing again after going into reverse last autumn in the midst of the euro crisis, new figures show. Total overseas sales shot up by 7.5% to £13.67bn in the year to December 2013 compared to 2012. Exports by value had dropped by 3.3% in the third quarter to £3.32bn,...
Youth employment, training and enterprise must be priorities for Chancellor George Osborne in next week’s Budget, according to Business West, the business support organisation that runs the Swindon & Wiltshire Initiative. Business West, in its submission to the 2014 Budget, said these three issues were essential to secure growth and avoiding a ‘lost generation’...
Swindon and Marlborough-based law firm Withy King has prepared a round-up of the latest legal developments and other issues which may affect directors in business as well as in their personal lives. Appeal case highlights perils of personal guarantees It is now common practice for directors to enter into personal guarantees when securing funding...
Watersheds, the Swindon-based corporate finance specialist, has concluded the sale of Salisbury Caravans to Webbs Motor Caravans, the family-owned Warminster-based firm. Salisbury Caravans owners Pete and Angela Toogood, who bought the business seven years ago, decided to realise their investment and focus on their existing significant property portfolio. All eight Salisbury Caravans staff will...
Tetronics International, the innovative Swindon-based developer of technology used in recycling and hazardous waste treatment, has strengthened its position in the global market by supplying a major new precious metals recovery plant in Taiwan. The firm, which has its UK base on the South Marston Industrial Estate, has completed work on the plasma recovery...
