Swindon-based event and venue company Planet Pursuits has won gold and silver in the meeting industry’s most prestigious awards. The firm, based on an organic farm in Purton, secured gold in the Best Event Provider category and claimed silver for Best Intermediary Agency with fewer than 40 employees in the Meetings & Incentive Travel...
Chippenham-based green electricity supplier Good Energy has won ‘best business initiative’ at the Climate Week awards in recognition of its pioneering promotion of 100% renewable energy. The awards aim to raise the profile of the most inspirational and impressive actions taking place in every sector of society to allow people to live and work...
Swindon-based motor lubricant brand Castrol has signed up as a partner to the Bloodhound supersonic car project which aims to set a new land speed record. To reach its target of The 1,000 mph, the Bloodhound car now being built in Bristol requires high-performance lubricants – a role Castrol has fulfilled in the past...
A pioneering scheme to help young people prepare for the world of work and improve Swindon’s pool of talented labour is to be launched in the town. Backed by employers and run by Back on Track Teens, the scheme’s two-day courses will help the young delegates better understand their strengths and interests and steer...
Two third-generation members of the Clifford family have been appointed directors of Blunsdon House, the family-owned four-star hotel on the outskirts of Swindon. Ben, 34, and Chris, 31, who have both grown up in an hotel environment, are grandsons of hotel founders Peter and Zan Clifford and sons of current directors John and Carrie. Chris, a Surrey University...
A major transformation of central Swindon, including re-building Fleming Way to end the town centre's ‘north-south divide’, was announced today. The work, part of a larger £350m town centre regeneration project, aims to extend the central area and make it more vibrant and easier for people to move between work, retail and social areas....
A former Swindon residential care home has been sold for conversion into flats. Windswept, a detached Victorian property in Belmont Crescent, Old Town, was bought by Leeds-based investors Kamara Management. Property consultants Alder King’s Swindon office secured the freehold sale of the home off a guide price of £575,000 on behalf of Avon &...
Specialist insurer Gallager Heath is to relocate its Swindon base in a move that has furthered strengthened the town centre’s office market. The firm, part of the Global insurance group Arthur J Gallagher, is to occupy the entire second floor of Station Square, the refurbished office block near Swindon railway station. It is currently...
Shares in Swindon-based franchised motor retailer Cambria rose by more than 5% in early trading today after it said it expects its financial results to be ‘significantly ahead’ of the previous year. In an upbeat trading statement to shareholders, the group said its performance in the first five months of the current financial year...
Optimism among law firms is at its highest level for seven years despite an increasingly competitive business environment and forthcoming major tax changes. Eight in 10 firms are confident about the year ahead, compared to six in 10 last year. Smaller firms – those with 25 partners or less – are the most upbeat,...
