Swindon entrepreneurs and small business owners are being offered a rare chance to meet some of the region’s most-active dealmakers at an event aimed at demystifying private equity and highlighting finance options for growth, succession and exit. The ‘Inside Private Equity’ event is being staged by accountancy and investment management group Smith & Williamson’s...
Swindon-based Nationwide Building Society’s success in interacting with its savers, investors and potential customers has been explained to a major industry conference on user experience (UX) and digital design. Nationwide’s user experience consultant Dan Healy spoke about his role at the UK’s largest building society at the event, called Collaborate, which attracted UX and...
Swindon-based building society Nationwide’s commitment to the Living Wage – which at £7.85 is more than £1 above the National Minimum Wage – has earned it the title of South West Living Wage champion. Nationwide, which employs around 4,000 people in Swindon, became the first major high street brand to sign up as a...
Low-cost airline easyJet is to introduce direct flights from Bristol Airport to Gibraltar next year, taking the number of destinations it serves from the airport to 47. When it launches next April it will be the first time the airport has had a direct service to the British Mediterranean territory. EasyJet, Bristol Airport’s largest...
Accountancy firm Sunflower Accounts has relocated to Wiltshire and taken on the spouse of its founder as it continues to grow. Mark Rickaby joins his wife Steph in running the business, which has moved from Clevedon, near Bristol, to Calne. Mark supported Steph when she set up Sunflower early last year after many years...
Swindon’s newest hi-tech firm, PRP Optoelectronics, has received a multi-million pound investment to develop innovative products at its new plant in the town. The firm announced earlier this month that it is to develop a 100,000 sq ft state-of-the-art design and manufacturing base at Hillmead to make market-leading light emitting diode (LED) technology. The...
Community First, Swindon and Wiltshire’s rural community council, has been awarded nearly £10,000 to help social enterprises and the voluntary sector access European funding. It will work with the Swindon and Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and other partners to run training workshops, set up a knowledge hub and bring together European funding experts...
Monahans, the regional accountancy firm with its main office in Swindon, continues its series of webinars next month with a look at health and safety. Debbie Anstis, the firm’s health and safety consultant, will give a step-by-step guide on how to review health and safety systems and what firms need to consider to ensure...
The economic recovery may not be as strong as anticipated despite the latest fall in unemployment, Business West, the organisation that runs the Initiative in Swindon & Wiltshire, has warned While welcoming the 1.6% year-on-year drop in the number of people out of work in the South West, Initiative director Ian Larrard, pictured, said...
The next event in HSBC’s series of business networking forums in Swindon will look at how businesses can position themselves more effectively to grow sales. The breakfast event on October 29 will once again be hosted on behalf of HSBC by Banks BHG accountants, at the firm’s offices in Stratton. HSBC is staging the...
