Swindon’s start-ups and young entrepreneurial businesses can book themselves onto a flight path for growth across the UK and into Europe under a new scheme launched this week offering free airline tickets. Seats for Start Ups – a partnership between bmi regional, UK Trade & Investment and the Engine Shed innovation hub in Bristol...
Swindon’s outstanding entrepreneurs and business leaders have just three weeks left to enter the region’s top awards scheme that recognises excellence and enterprise in the boardroom. The annual Institute of Directors’ South West Director of the Year Awards showcase the wealth of executive talent in the region. Swindon Business News is once again backing...
A redesign of Swindon specialist packaging group Wasdell’s website by town-based marketing communications agency Lundie has resulted in it regularly appearing in the top 20 of Google searches for pharmaceutical packaging. Wasdell appointed Lundie through competitive tender when it needed help a major overhaul of its company and product messages. This included integrating two...
Nine firms from Swindon and North Wiltshire have been named among the UK’s fastest-growing and most dynamic small and medium-sized businesses. The firms appear in the latest prestigious London Stock Exchange’s 1,000 Companies to Inspire Britain report. These high-growth businesses are highlighted as leading the charge in rebuilding the economy,” according to Chancellor of...
More than 40 business owners from across the South West and South Wales attended a charity event hosted by Swindon-based media consultant and journalist Fiona Scott last week. Held at The Pear Tree restaurant at Purton, the guests enjoyed pre-dinner drinks, a three-course meal, talks from guest speakers and a raffle to raise money...
Swindon firms are being encouraged to head along the M4 next week The Bath Business Expo 2016 – one of the region’s largest business events. The Expo on March 17, which is supported by Bath & North East Somerset Council (B&NES) and a number of Swindon-based sponsors, will act as a local and regional...
SciSys, the Chippenham-based specialist IT firm, has landed a £2m contract to supply groundbreaking radio technology to a major UK radio broadcaster. SciSys’ dira! system incorporates next-generation technology to enable ‘cloud-hosted’ local radio production and infrastructure. It includes virtualised studios which only require the bare minimum of equipment installed locally to produce and broadcast....
The West of England’s “wonderful” relationship with China has been celebrated at a Chinese New Year banquet attended by more than 200 business leaders and representatives of the region’s Chinese community. Firms from across the region were represented at the event in Bristol along with the city's mayor George Ferguson – who praised links...
Swindon-based digital agency All Things Web is forecasting rapid expansion over the next three years after achieving strong growth in 2015. The firm’s turnover increased by 32% in its 2014/15 financial year with profits up by 23%. It is on target for higher growth this year with a 35% rise in turnover and profits...
A firm’s intellectual property (IP) – its trademarks, branding, designs etc – are vital to its success and must be registered as part of any business plan, Swindon companies will be told. At a free breakfast presentation on March 2, hosted at chartered accountants Banks BHG, the Intellectual Property Office’s Dave Hopkins, pictured, will...
