CBI director general John Cridland will be guest speaker at this year’s CBI South West annual dinner. Mr Cridland is a key spokesman for the business community in the media, on public platforms and with Government, leads the CBI, the voice of UK business, and represents it internationally. The black-tie dinner, on November 3...
Sovereign South+West, the regional housing provider with hundreds of homes in Swindon, is in detailed negotiations that could result in it taking over more than 700 more properties in the town and across Wiltshire. Sovereign, which is based in Newbury and has an office in Swindon, plans to swap its 641 homes in Somerset...
Swindon College has introduced a scheme to support employers through the economic downturn by helping young people into employment. Launched through the college’s employer division Business First, the government-funded initiative means employers can gain from having an apprentice without directly employing them for the first six months. The programmes should also mean that young...
Wessex Water has won two Green Apple Awards in a national campaign to find Britain’s greenest companies, councils and communities. The company, which supplies water and sewerage services across parts of North Wiltshire, submitted entries for its catchment management and waste reduction and recycling projects, competing against 500 other nominations. The awards are organised...
German car giant Volkswagen has taken a 56% controlling stake in MAN, the German truckmaker which has its UK HQ in Swindon. The move, the result of a mandatory offer for MAN shares on the Frankfurt stock exchange, adds a second company to VW's truck business on top of Swedish firm Scania. With control...
Administrators of the collapsed von Essen hotel chain are reported to be disputing a claim by the chain's founder Andrew Davis that it could pay its debts in full and be left with a surplus of £22m to pay off unsecured creditors. A valuation of the company's properties, which include two Wiltshire hotels – Bishopstrow, near...
Watson Petroleum, the Brinkworth-based fuel distributor, is featured for the first time in the latest Sunday Times/Deloitte Top Track 100, the ranking of Britain’s 100 largest private companies by sales. The family-owned business, which had a turnover of £585m in the year to April 2010, enters the table at number 100. Watson employs more...
