Free exporting seminars for Wiltshire firms

The phenomenal growth of Swindon online retailer Oak Furniture Land’s has been recognised in a ranking of the UK’s fastest-expanding privately-owned businesses. The firm was placed at number 19 in the Sunday Times PwC Profit Track 100, having achieved growth of 87.92% over the past three years. Oak Furniture Land launched as an eBay...

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Swindon’s ambitions to be a major national centre for sustainable industries have received a double boost with the arrival of two firms operating at the leading edge of the green revolution. Recycling Technologies, a manufacturer of energy-from-waste equipment capable of generating electricity from mixed plastic waste, has set up in the town and actively...

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More Swindon firms will be encouraged to trade overseas in a series of events staged across the South West as part of the second annual Export Week. Swindon has been chosen as the venue for a seminar looking at export opportunities in Mexico – one of the world’s emerges economies and a target market...

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Monday April 29 INTERIMS Aberdeen Asset Management, Cambria Automobiles, Egdon Resources AGMS Global Ports Investments GDR (REG S), New Europe Property Investments, Randgold Resources Ltd., Sports Stars Media, X5 Retail Group NV GDR (Reg S) TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS Greene King UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS PMI Retail (09:30) Tuesday April 30 INTERIMS Imperial Tobacco Group FINALS Harvey...

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Just over half of West businesses plan to create jobs over the next 12 months, according to a survey that also shows the region as the most confident in the UK for employment security. Some 88% of firms taking part in the Barclays Job Creation Survey 2013 do not expect to make any job...

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Monday April 15 FINALS Spectra Systems Corporation, Walker Greenbank EGMS Bank Audi SAL (Audi Saradar Group) GDR (Reg S) AGMS Primary Health Properties Tuesday April 16 INTERIMS Utilitywise FINALS JSC Acron GDR (Reg S), M. P. Evans Group AGMS Maven Income and Growth VCT 5, Ottoman Fund Ltd., Perform Group, Porvair, Telecity Group UK...

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West businesses remain relatively confident about their prospects despite trading conditions becoming harsher during the first three months of this year. The latest Quarterly Economic Survey (QES) from Business West, which runs the chambers of commerce in Bristol, Bath and Gloucestershire and the Bristol and Swindon Initiatives, shows that most key indicators were down...

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