The future is Recyclabox for Accord Office

August 29, 2012
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Accord Office Supplies has introduced an environmentally responsible delivery service with the launch of a recyclable delivery box for its customer deliveries.   The Swindon-based office products distributor makes over 1,000 monthly deliveries to businesses across the UK.   Recyclabox is part of Accord’s continuing environmental commitment to implement greener and more sustainable alternatives...

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Property: Largest Swindon town centre office letting for four years

August 29, 2012
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Public services and infrastructure engineering company Amey has concluded lease negotiations for new office space in Swindon town centre. Acting on behalf of the Mapeley Group, property agents Whitmarsh Lockhart confirmed a new five-year lease of the fourth floor of the SN1 building totalling 10,060 sq ft – one of the largest open market...

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Howard Tenens wins major funding boost for green trucks

August 28, 2012
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Haulage company Howard Tenens has been awarded a total of £1.26m from the ‘Low Carbon Truck Demonstration Trial’ funded by the Department for Transport and the Technology Strategy Board. This will be a major boost in driving forward Howard Tenens’ sustainable transport strategy.  One of the award criteria was that applications had to be...

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Smiths News signs lease to move HQ to Kembrey Park

August 22, 2012
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Smiths News has chosen the Rowan office building in Kembrey park for its new head office following expansion.   Commercial agents Loveday let the 27,733 sq ft building to the newspaper and book wholesaler on a 12 year lease.   Tye Lohrenz, property and facilities manager at Smiths News said: “In the past three...

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Sharp rise in profits for Persimmon Homes

August 22, 2012
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Persimmon Homes Wessex has made a good start to the year with before tax profit up 65% in the first six months of 2012 at £98.7m. The rise in profits has been driven in part with a more than 20% rise in part exchange for private sale customers using the incentive in challenging market...

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Car dealer celebrates first sale of long range electric vehicle

August 21, 2012
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A Swindon man has become the first in the UK to order the eco-revolutionary Ampera, a plug-in extended range electric vehicle, from Skurrays Vauxhall. The innovative vehicle arrived in showrooms on May 1, and Gareth Thomas was one of the first people in the UK to pick up the vehicle on the day it...

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Nationwide to open City of London office

August 20, 2012
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Swindon-based building society Nationwide is to open a base in the City of London, it announced today, in a move that positions it closer to the historic heart of the UK financial services sector. Nationwide recently acquired a building in Threadneedle Street, close to the Bank of England, which will become its London office...

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Property: Cirencester’s Mad Hatters wine bar goes up for sale

August 20, 2012
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Cirencester wine bar Mad Hatters has been put on the market. The Castle Street bar, pictured, is popular with students from the Royal Agricultural College and Cirencester College, and trades three nights a week with well-known, small music acts and acoustic nights. It is being marketed by the Bristol office of letting agents Christie...

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Swindon Chamber urges council to be more proactive on growth

August 20, 2012
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Swindon Chamber of Commerce (SCC) has called upon Swindon Borough Council to review the feedback on the Core Strategy for economic growth and prosperity in its revised document due to be published in October. In a letter sent to the council, SCC, part of the Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce Group and the voice...

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Smiths News extends wholesale deal with News International

August 17, 2012
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Newspaper and book wholesaler Smiths News has agreed a new wholesale agreement with News International (NI), for another five years from 2014 to 2019. The deal will secure an additional £40m of regional distribution business and increasing Swindon-based Smiths News' market share of News International's wholesale business from 10% to 49%.   A spokesman...

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