Expanding property law firm Hoffman Male is taking on more staff as it starts to benefit from the housing market recovery. The firm is seeking two conveyancers – one each for its offices in Swindon and Bristol – to help with a growing caseload linked to the higher number of prospective homebuyers entering the...
Swindon-based specialist distributor Smiths News has extended its newspaper wholesaling agreement with media group Trinity Mirror Newspapers to until October 2019. The agreement secures 56% market share of Trinity Mirror’s distribution business for Smiths News for an additional five years. Trinity Mirror publishes The Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People along with Regional...
Swindon’s Menzies Hotel has been closed down with the loss of all 49 jobs following the sale of its parent company. The town centre hotel, is one of three that are not being taken over by the hotel chain’s new owners Topland Group. The other hotels to be closed are at Gatwick and Luton....
Regional law firm Thrings, which has its largest office in Swindon, has strengthened its succession, estates and tax planning offering with the appointment of Victoria Smyth as partner. Victoria, pictured, a specialist private client solicitor, providing a comprehensive wealth management, wills, trusts and tax service for businesses and individual clients, has joined from Bristol-based...
Monday 2 December Interims: ReNeuron, Great Eastern Energy Corporation, WYG Finals: Andor Technology, Innovation AGM: Pure Circle EGMs: Abbey Protection, City of London, Primary Health Properties, Quindell Portfolio Economics: Hometrack housing survey, Purchasing managers' index – manufacturing, Halifax house price data Tuesday 3 December Interims: API, Betfair, Daisy, Greene King, Micro Focus International, Northgate,...
Businesses relying on old Microsoft systems to run their computers could be putting the security of their data at risk, a Swindon IT specialist is warning. From next April, Microsoft will no longer support the Windows XP operating system – potentially leaving those companies still using it at the mercy of hackers, according to...
Swindon-based shopfitting firm Finch Installations is in line for one of the top prizes in the first-ever national Ready For Business Awards 2013 which showcase the country’s best start-up businesses. Established in February by Simon Finch and business partner Leanne Morrison, it secured a £10,000 business loan earlier this year and has agreed major...
Sales have increased for more than half the West’s small to medium-sized West manufacturers over the past six months, with just over a third also experiencing an increase in inquiries and orders. The upbeat picture emerges from the Manufacturing Advisory Service’s latest Barometer, which also reveals a slight rise in the number of companies...
The in-house magazine produced by Hills, the Marlborough-based waste, recycling and housebuilding group, has landed a major regional PR award. intouch won gold in the Best Internal Publication category in the 2013 South West Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) PRide Awards, staged last Friday in Bristol. More than 220 guests attended the black-tie...
Logistics group Howard Tenens, which has major operations in Swindon, has reinforced its commitment to cutting carbon emissions and operating in a sustainable way by buying 36 dual-fuel trucks this year. The vehicles, which use compressed natural gas (CNG) and diesel, are among 42 new trucks bought this year by the group. Their arrival...
