Business recovery specialist firm Begbies Traynor has scooped the title of South West Regional Insolvency Practitioner Firm of the Year in the national Insolvency and Rescue Awards. The accolade was presented to partner and head of the South West Regional team, Julie Palmer, at a packed ceremony at the Lancaster London Hotel. The company’s...
Swindon-based distribution group Smiths News announces its full-year figures on Wednesday, and investors will be looking for continued earnings growth and an update on the company’s diversification strategy away from the declining news distribution business. Recent contract renewals in news distribution provide some comfort there but, ultimately, the company’s other businesses – book supplier,...
Swindon-based retail giant WH Smith has shut down its website after it was discovered the retailer was selling pornographic ebooks online. According to the Sunday Express and Mail on Sunday, more than 60 of the books were found on the site but WH Smith said they were placed there by a third-party company. WH...
West firms are showing some significant signs of recovery as the economic upturn gains traction, according to the upbeat results of a new survey. Domestic sales for the region’s manufacturing and services sectors have climbed strongly over the past three months while other measures including employment and business confidence, are equally positive, some showing...
Two modern warehouse and production buildings on a prominent corner site in West Swindon have become available to let and are being marketed as suitable to combine into a head office. The buildings, Units 1 and 2 on Mead Way, Westmead, pictured, have a total of 20,085 sq ft of warehouse and office space....
Swindon’s former headquarters of electronics giant Plessey has been officially re-opened as state-of-the-art offices for the town’s next generation of dynamic young businesses. The regeneration of the outdated 1960s building at Cheney Manor into the Nexus Business Centre gives Swindon 200 additional workstations for small and growing businesses. And where once boffins at Plessey...
Consumers in the South West are continuing to shrug off the tough economic conditions by spending more in the shops and online, new data out today shows. Spending by families and individuals in the region grew by 2.8% last month – the sixth month in a row that it has been above inflation. Restaurants...
Businesses using digital press releases as an integral part of their web presence now risk penalties from Google, according to digital marketing specialist Darren Moloney, managing director of Highworth-based online marketing consultancy All Things Web. Savvy companies have for some time been using online press releases, among other techniques, to optimise their website ranking....
Monday 7 October Final: Waterman AGM: City of London Investment Tuesday 8 October Trading statements: Robert Walters, Victrex Economics: British Retail Consortium year-on-year sales, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors – house prices data Wednesday 9 October Interim: N Brown Trading statements: Centamin, Greggs, Vedanta Resources AGM: Goodwin Economics: British Retail Consortium shop price index,...
Divorce lawyer Gwyn Randolph has become a partner in law firm Withy King’s rapidly-expanding family team, joining from rival Thrings. Gwyn, pictured, who has more than 20 years’ experience as a family lawyer, had worked at Thrings, which has its largest office in Swindon, for nearly five years, advising on all aspects of relationship...
