Innovative handmade furniture and shelving firm BespOak Interiors has relocated its workshop from Cirencester to a unit on the Lakeside Business Park in South Cerney as it continues to expand. BespOak Interiors was founded in September last year by insulation engineer Daniel Lee after friends and family encouraged him to turn his hobby into...
The CBI welcomed the spending review’s commitment to longer-term investment in the economy but said there was a sting in the tail in the size and scope of the £3m apprenticeship levy. Director-general Carolyn Fairbairn said: “Businesses will be pleased to see the Chancellor staying the course on deficit reduction, his commitment to an...
Swindon business experts have given a mostly positive reaction to this week’s Autumn Statement and Spending Review. Ian Larrard, director of the Swindon and Wiltshire Initiative – part of Business West – said it contained some good news for the region. “Once again the ‘builder’ Chancellor has used the tools at his disposal to...
Chancellor George Osborne today delivered his Autumn Statement and Spending Review. These are the main points: Chancellor says five years ago UK economy was in crisis. Debt will fall this year. £12bn of welfare savings will be delivered in full. Britain has grown faster than any other G7 countries since 2010. Economy is predicted...
Corporate finance firm Watersheds, which has an office in Swindon, has helped to fund an early stage, major renewable energy scheme with sites stretching from Yorkshire to Sussex. Watersheds secured finance from private investors for the scheme run by Suffolk-based Farm Renewables, which will include eight new sustainable energy projects over five sites in...
Firms from the Swindon area that support fair and ethical business practices are being urged to enter a unique business awards scheme. Now in their fourth year, the highly successful South West Fairtrade Business Awards champion firms that put ethical responsibilities at the heart of their business. Last year 76 businesses from across the...
Swindon firms are to be given the chance to explore doing business in more than 70 countries worldwide when an international delegation visits the region next week. ExploreExport 2015 is aimed at all companies keen to expand overseas and is staged against a backdrop of rising exports from the South West. Latest figures show that...
Swindon-based electronics firm TE Connectivity has received Government funding for a £1.9m a pioneering project to help design the aircraft of the future. The firm, based at Dorcan, is assessing how flexible and lightweight printed circuits can replace traditional wiring in aeroplanes, so reducing fuel consumption and lowering emissions. Compact Flexible Printed Circuits (FPC)...
Vastern Timber, the Royal Wootton Bassett-based sawmill, has won a major national award for one of its key products. The firm’s jointed British sweet chestnut cladding came top in the Best Cladding System category at the Build It Awards held recently in London. Family-owned Vastern Timber, which also operates a sawmill at Studley, near...
With just two days to go, the Festival of Female Entrepreneurs is shaping up to be one of the biggest business events in the West this year. Hundreds of business owners – men and women – will descend on the Colston Hall in Bristol this Thursday for the one-day entrepreneurial extravaganza. Tickets to the keynote...
