A Wiltshire company that spun out of the University of Bath is to appear in a league table of the UK’s fastest-growing private tech, media and telecoms firms for the second time in two years. Qualasept Pharmaxo, which has developed the UK’s single biggest aseptic clean room, has achieved annual sales growth of 77%...
A raft of recent contract wins and a bumper order book means Chippenham-based specialist IT group SCISYS is on target to report solid half-year results later this month, according to its directors. In a trading update to the London Stock Exchange earlier this week, the SCISYS board said they remained confident that the group...
Vysiion, the Chippenham-based communications infrastructure and outsourced IT service provider, is delivering an IT managed service for the South West Heritage Trust, which runs archives, museums and other historic services across Somerset and Devon. The archives hold more than seven million original documents relating to the history of Somerset and Devon with open access...
Employment agency Juice Recruitment has launched an office in Swindon as it continues its expansion across the region. Bath-headquartered Juice, which already has bases in Bristol, Cheltenham and Trowbridge, said it will use the office at Lydiard Fields to offer its services to businesses and candidates across the Wiltshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire markets. ...
Organisers of The Downs Festival, which returns to Bristol tomorrow, are offering businesses the chance to snap up VIP tickets – with access to its backstage bar – for the same price of a normal ticket. The all-day festival, which was staged for the first time last year with Massive Attack, is this year...
Tens of thousands of EU workers in the South West could leave the UK over the next few years, potentially triggering a major skills headache for the region’s firms, according to a new survey. Some 28% of all EU nationals working in the region say they are considering quitting their jobs, while 4% have...
The outlook for the global economy is “highly uncertain”, a top Bank of England official has warned West business leaders, but he insisted that Britain’s financial services industry is in far better shape to cope with any sudden shocks than it was ahead of the last recession. China’s huge debt problem, Brexit and complacency...
Branding, exporting and the challenges of being a woman boss in the male-dominated world of professional football are among the issues that will be showcased at this year’s Festival of Female Entrepreneurs in Bristol. The event, staged by small business support group Enterprise Nation on October 20, has become the largest of its kind...
Annova, the German mediatech firm acquired by specialist IT group SCISYS earlier this year, has landed its second major contract in just over two weeks. Chippenham-based SCISYS paid €11.35m (£10.45m) upfront in cash for Munich-based Annova in January. Earlier this month it secured a €2.5m deal involving the complete renewal of an unnamed German broadcaster’s...
Commercial property specialist Colliers International’s South West office has added expertise in developing leisure destinations to its range of services following the appointment of an associate director who has worked with clients such as London’s Olympic Park, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the National Trust. Matt Hyslop, who has more than 10 years’...
