Swindon and Wiltshire businesses will next week get a rare chance to meet trade experts from the British Embassies in the US and Canada and explore transatlantic export opportunities on a one-to-one basis. The event, at the Mercure Holland House Hotel in Bristol on Wednesday, March 5, is the latest ‘meet the expert’ event...
Swindon’s innovative firms in the green, hi-tech and creative industries are being invited to take part in a unique trade mission to China which aims to open up valuable new markets for businesses in these key sectors. Taking the ‘Smart Cities’ concept as its theme, the November visit will give 10 businesses from the...
Wiltshire-based specialist charity fundraising services provider The Woods Group, which works with major organisations such as RSPB, National Trust and Motability, has been bought by its management team. The Chippenham firm stages raffles, weekly lotteries, response handling and fulfilment allowing its charity clients to concentrate on core fundraising campaigns. The deal, financial details of...
Accountants PwC have launched their annual search for the region’s best companies with the 2014 West of England Business of the Year Awards – the region’s most prestigious business accolades. Previous winners of the awards, now in their 26th year, read like a who’s who of the West’s most-respected companies, including Dyson, MITIE and,...
Swindon law firm Withy King provides a round-up of a few of the latest legal developments which may affect directors, in business as well as their private lives. Tax implications for home owners After MPs got caught ‘flipping’ their homes for a CGT (Capital Gains Tax) advantage, it must have grated. Chancellor George Osborne...
Swindon digital marketing consultancy All Things Web has launched a service to help fledgling and small businesses get their websites noticed by both online search engines and all-important first customers. The service was started as a result of a presentation made by All Things Web director Helen Moloney at a recent conference for female...
A charity fundraising dinner and disco to raise awareness of altruistic kidney donation – the act of giving a kidney to a stranger – is being staged this Friday by Swindon businesswoman Jasie Rai. Jasie, director of The Sales and Marketing Hub, is hosting the ladies’ charity night of delicious Indian food and entertainment...
Swindon-based specialist distributor Smiths News has extended its newspaper wholesaling agreement with media group Trinity Mirror Newspapers to until October 2019. The agreement secures 56% market share of Trinity Mirror’s distribution business for Smiths News for an additional five years. Trinity Mirror publishes The Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People along with Regional...
The in-house magazine produced by Hills, the Marlborough-based waste, recycling and housebuilding group, has landed a major regional PR award. intouch won gold in the Best Internal Publication category in the 2013 South West Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) PRide Awards, staged last Friday in Bristol. More than 220 guests attended the black-tie...
Superior, the fast-growing Wiltshire design, print and fulfilment group, has secured a £1m investment from its long-term bankers Barclays to support further expansion. The funding comes a year after Barclays supplied £2m to fund a purpose-built design studio and increase printing capacity at Superior’s Melksham headquarters. Superior, which has doubled its turnover to £15m...
