National property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) has made a key senior appointment in the South West as it looks to expand its regional industrial and logistics operations. Brett Casswell, pictured, joins as associate director in the firm’s Bristol office to manage the industrial and logistics division, with development support for investors. Brett, who...
Anticipation is building with just one day to go before delegates gather for the region’s biggest free business event. Organisers hope to welcome up to 3,000 delegates to Business Showcase South West 2015 tomorrow and Friday. Star attractions include keynote speakers ‘Millionaires’ Mentor’ Bev James and Levi Roots of Reggae Reggae Sauce and Dragons’...
Avon Rubber chief executive Peter Slabbert, who is credited with helping transform the Wiltshire business into a global manufacturing innovator, is to leave later this year. Confirmation of his resignation after 15 years at Avon – seven of them as chief executive – came as the group posted another strong set of financial results...
Organisers of Business Showcase South West have come up with five compelling reasons for Swindon business people to attend what will be the biggest event of its kind in the region The event, on May 14 and 15 at Colston Hall, in Bristol, will celebrate the best in innovation, creativity and enterprise and has...
Around 800 people gained an insight into Swindon's vibrant economy and go-ahead firms at the town's fifth annual Business Show on Thursday. The event, staged by Business West at the town’s STEAM museum, proved successful for the 80 exhibitors, who included law firm Thrings, HSBC, Bristol Airport, Center Parcs and Forward Swindon. Adventurer and...
The bosses of two major Swindon firms are to battle it out with 33 other entrepreneurs for one of the UK’s most-respected business awards. Jason Bannister, founder and managing director of Oak Furniture Land, the UK’s fastest-growing furniture retailer, and Dr Richard Steeves, founder and CEO of Synergy Health, the international medical sterilisation group...
Specialist music importer and distributor Discovery Records has been sold to a record label business which has vowed to continue to develop its niche operations. Discovery Records was set up in Devizes in 1978 to promote record labels from France in the UK. Over the years it expanded to import discs from most Western...
New flights from Bristol Airport to Paris and Düsseldorf took off yesterday as operator bmi regional extended its route network in the West of England. The flights, which are expected to boost trade between the region and France and Germany, were launched just over a week after rival easyJet started services on five more...
Swindon is looking into developing economic links with the US city of Mentor following a visit here by a civic delegation. The dignitaries from the Ohio city came to Swindon on the back of the £1.2bn acquisition of Windmill Hill-based international medical sterilisation group Synergy Health by Steris, one of Mentor’s largest healthcare employers....
Swindon firms are being warned not to miss out on unparalleled sponsorship, exhibition stands and free delegate passes for what will be the region’s biggest business show this year. The two-day Business Showcase South West 2015 staged on May 14 and 15 will provide a platform for the best of the West of England’s innovation,...
