Firms can find out how to share knowledge and experience and form the kind of collaborative business relationships that help develop business in overseas markets at an event next week. Staged by the Wiltshire International Network, the evening meeting at Dyson’s Malmesbury base will offer expert advice from UK Trade & Investment international trade...
The corporate, employment and commercial property teams from law firm Withy King’s Swindon office have advised shareholders of Wiltshire-based specialist adhesives firm ALH Systems on its sale to Swedish industrial giant Indutrade. ALH, based at Westbury, has annual sales of £6m and employs 37 staff. It supplies formulated polyurethane and epoxy encapsulants, adhesives, sealants...
Swindon law firm Withy King’s intellectual property and technology expert Jessica Bent has been selected to join the judging panel of a new Dragons’ Den-style competition aimed at aspiring female engineers in the South West. Jessica, pictured, a partner with the firm, will help judge the entries to the Women with Bright Ideas competition,...
Wiltshire-based innovative appliance firm Dyson is to become the new title partner for Bath Rugby’s for the next two seasons, it was announced this morning. The partnership marks the first of its kind for Malmesbury-based Dyson, best known for its pioneering bagless vacuum cleaners. The firm said the time was right to support a...
The Government has announced funding of £12.8m for Swindon and Wiltshire under its Local Growth Deal. This money is for projects which start in 2015/16 and 2016/17. It also announced £116.3m of possible future funding. Key projects to benefit from the first round of funding include: Swindon’s Eastern Villages infrastructure. A package of road...
Swindon and Wiltshire are to receive Government funding worth £12.8m to create jobs, generate economic growth and accelerate much-needed housebuilding over the next two years. A further £116.3m could be invested in the area beyond 2017 under the Local Growth Deal including £23m for a new road tunnel under the M4 linking the Wichelstowe...
Beard, the Swindon-based construction group, and Chippenham green energy pioneer Good Energy will find out next week if they have joined the ranks of the West of England’s top companies by winning the region’s most-coveted business award. The firms are among the six finalists competing for the prestigious title of West of England Business...
UTC Swindon, the university technical college opening this September, has received microcontroller boards worth £4,500 from Intel, the US tech giant with a major base in the town. The 90 Galileo boards will be used by students to learn about advanced computing technology and microchip design – a key sector for the future of...
Mailroom equipment firm Totalpost Services, which covers the South of England from its office in Swindon, has supplied a mail and parcel x-ray security screening device to building society Nationwide’s flagship processing centre in the town. The machine is used primarily for screening the 20,000 items of mail received by the centre every day....
Visitors to Bath’s iconic Roman Baths now get a much better view of the world heritage site thanks to the completion of a challenging project by Swindon-based building firm Beard. The firm has installed a walkway giving a panoramic aerial view of the Temple Precinct and the life-size, gilt bronze head of the goddess...
