The holding company of the luxury hotel chain von Essen has been placed in administration. The fast-growing Bath-based firm owns 28 prestige hotels in the UK and France, including two in Wiltshire – Bishopstrow, near Warminster, and Woolley Grange, near Bradford-on-Avon, as well as Bath's iconic Royal Crescent Hotel. It also owns Cliveden in...
New College has awarded a five-year contract to Swindon-based Sodexo Education Services to provide it with catering and hospitality services. Under the contract, worth nearly £2.5million in total, Sodexo will provide meals for the college's 7,000 students and staff. The service includes a Costa Coffee shop, Sodexo's Bowl hot food service, Brunch all-day breakfast and Street handheld snack concepts, and...
Whitmarsh Lockhart,on behalf of CB Richard Ellis has let Unit 33a Bramble Close, Elgin Industrial Estate following a comprehensive refurbishment of the building just a few months ago. The new tenant is Cortus which is made up of Roman Kahan, John Hillier & Sean Warren who believe there is an opportunity to provide...
First quarter earnings at Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, increased by 29 per cent to $3.16bn (£1.95bn) as businesses stepped up spending on new computers. The increase helped the US-owned company overcome a problems with its recently-launched Cougar Point chip and supply chain disruption following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Revenue during the...
The Dutch energy utility Essent, a subsidiary of Swindon-based RWE AG, has been asked by Amsterdam City Council to deliver and install 125 electric vehicle charging stations. The delivery may be extended for up to 750 charging points. The first charging points are due to be installed quite soon, in the first half of...
Logistics group Wincanton today said it had recently renewed a number of major contracts and was confident of further deals later this year. In a trading update to the London Stock Exchange ahead of its preliminary annual results, the Chippenham-based group also said its performance continued to be broadly in line with management expectations....
Specialist law firm Hoffman Male is relocating to accommodate growth in the wills and probate part of its business. The firm will move from its offices in Bath Road, Old Town, to Windmill Hill Business Park, near the junction 16 of the M4, on May 3. Principal Mary Hoffman said the new office will be more accessible to clients as it...
Swindon's New College has set up a groundbreaking partnership with a private university to offer undergraduate degrees. In the first public-private link-up of its kind, law and business degree courses will be operated by BPP University College, which last year became the first private university created in the UK for more than three decades. The partnership breaks...
Global businesses, including Honda, Siemens, Bentley and HSBC have signed up to support one of the country's biggest training skills events, WorldSkills London 2011. As an event sponsor, Honda is investing in the next generation of skilled workers who could eventually by employed at the company's Swindon plant. The sponsors will also help address...
