Can’t decide whether to splash out to see your favourite band on their European tour or go skiing? These days you can do both, writes travel editor ANNE GORRINGE With veteran bands like The Stones charging an arm and a leg for their concert tickets, it could be wiser to spend your money on...
More Swindon firms will be encouraged to trade overseas in a series of events staged across the South West as part of the second annual Export Week. Swindon has been chosen as the venue for a seminar looking at export opportunities in Mexico – one of the world’s emerges economies and a target market...
Monday April 29 INTERIMS Aberdeen Asset Management, Cambria Automobiles, Egdon Resources AGMS Global Ports Investments GDR (REG S), New Europe Property Investments, Randgold Resources Ltd., Sports Stars Media, X5 Retail Group NV GDR (Reg S) TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS Greene King UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS PMI Retail (09:30) Tuesday April 30 INTERIMS Imperial Tobacco Group FINALS Harvey...
Just over half of West businesses plan to create jobs over the next 12 months, according to a survey that also shows the region as the most confident in the UK for employment security. Some 88% of firms taking part in the Barclays Job Creation Survey 2013 do not expect to make any job...
Smiths News, the Swindon-based specialist distribution firm, has acquired a number of academic library services contracts from book retailer Blackwell UK for £2.1m. The acquisition of the European and African interests further strengthens Smiths News UK book supplier Bertrams’ established international footprint. Smiths News said the deal “brings with it a complementary customer base...
A team of undercover inspectors have voted The Manor House Hotel in Castle Combe as one of the UK’s top afternoon tea venues for its quality, range and service in the Award of Excellence category in the Tea Guild’s prestigious 2013 Tea Guild Awards. The Manor House was one of 37 city and countryside...
Monday April 15 FINALS Spectra Systems Corporation, Walker Greenbank EGMS Bank Audi SAL (Audi Saradar Group) GDR (Reg S) AGMS Primary Health Properties Tuesday April 16 INTERIMS Utilitywise FINALS JSC Acron GDR (Reg S), M. P. Evans Group AGMS Maven Income and Growth VCT 5, Ottoman Fund Ltd., Perform Group, Porvair, Telecity Group UK...
West businesses remain relatively confident about their prospects despite trading conditions becoming harsher during the first three months of this year. The latest Quarterly Economic Survey (QES) from Business West, which runs the chambers of commerce in Bristol, Bath and Gloucestershire and the Bristol and Swindon Initiatives, shows that most key indicators were down...
Swindon-based retail group WH Smith achieved a first-half pre-tax profits increase of 5% despite falling sales. The results, the last under departing boss Kate Swann, show profits reached £69m for the six months to 28 February on group total sales on a like-for-like basis own 5%. Overall, but gross margin improved 160 basis points,...
Stone King, the regional law firm with an office in Melksham, has appointed experienced lawyers Amanda Watts and Jo Boyle to its growing residential property team. Amanda, pictured, right, with Stone King’s managing partner Steven Greenwood, joins the firm, which also has offices in Bath, Cambridge and London, from Hertfordshire legal practice Nockolds where...
