Chancellor George Osborne opens his Budget by saying it will 'unashamedly back business." the Budget will "reward work". Britain "is going to earn its way in the world", he said. Britain is "not immune" from developments in the eurozone, he said. He also said a million more jobs will be created over the next...
With less than an hour before Chancellor George Osborne reveals the contents of this year’s Budget, expectations are running high for some business-friendly measures to ease the plight of small and medium-sized firms. Swindon Business News has teamed up with accountants Morris Owen to bring unparalleled coverage of today’s Budget. We will be reporting...
Swindon Chamber of Commerce is holding a corporate insight dinner with Andy Tait, European director for Swindon-based Intel’s services and channel enablement, as keynote speaker. Andy manages Intel’s expansion into the services business and is also the Swindon site corporate and social responsibility representative for the UK – a role in which he manages...
Chippenham-based Complete Business Gifts is celebrating a decade of reinforcing its clients' advertising campaigns with its vast range of promotional items. Many new and innovative promotional gifts have come on to the market within the last ten years but old favourites such as pens and mugs are still highly favoured. Currently, branded USB's are...
Arkell’s, the Swindon-based family-owned brewery has appointed 26-year old Alex Arkell as head brewer – the first family member to take on the role for several generations. The brewery was started by John Arkell in 1843 and has been in the same family’s hands since – surviving the mass of takeovers and mergers...
Cinema chain Cineworld was today named as the operator of the six-screen multiplex which will be part of Swindon’s long-awaited £50m Regent Circus leisure scheme The new state-of-the-art, all-digital cinema will form a key part of the development by Ashfield Land which will transform a neglected area of the town centre dominated by the...
Dozens of business leaders attended a Chinese banquet to learn about a major opportunity to trade with the Far East. During the special reception at Bristol’s Zen Restaurant, they heard about a planned November 2012 Bristol and South West IoD trade mission to China. It will see South West business directors visit China for a week as they target one...
Accountants and business advisers Grant Thornton have won the contract to perform work for the public sector across the South West now carried out by the Audit Commission. The five-year contract, awarded on the basis of audit quality and value, will begin in September. The Government is dismantling the Audit Commission – the body...
South West chairman of the Institute of Directors (IoD) Gerry Jones has urged Chancellor George Osborne to reform Air Passenger Duty (APD) in this month’s Budget to help regional airports like Bristol. He called on the Treasury to either freeze the rate of duty or introduce two-tier pricing and accused successive governments of ‘being...
Freesource Energy, the renewables company based at Corsham, has been highly commended by the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust for its work supplying free solar PV systems to homes. The firm collected the accolade in the Climate Change Impact category of the Trust’s fourth Corporate Green Awards. People in more than a hundred homes have benefitted...
