Each week Swindon Business News gives a prominent member of the area’s business community the last word on our weekly e-bulletin. This week Anna Cole, a partner at specialist personal injury law firm Novum Law, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Gone Girl, a psychological thriller that keeps you...
Bott, the workplace storage equipment firm, and Devon Air Ambulance Trust have won the PWC Business of the Year Awards – the South West’s most coveted business accolades. Bude-based Bott’s CEO Clive Woodward received his trophy for the £30m-plus turnover category from Mark Beard, chief executive of last year's winner, Swindon construction firm Beard....
The new made-in-Swindon Honda Civic Type R will be sold in the car manufacturer’s home country Japan, it has announced a week after the first models of the hot hatch came off the production line at South Marston. Honda Motor Company CEO Takahiro Hachigo said the Type R – described as the fastest front-wheel...
Swindon urgently needs speculative commercial property development to meet spiralling demand from office and industrial occupiers, according to agents Alder King’s latest Market Monitor Update report. The supply of offices, factories and warehouses in the town is now down to its lowest for more than 10 years, the report says – the combination of...
The UK motor industry has slammed the Chancellor’s Budget move to bring in a new car tax system, warning that it risks damaging the UK’s burgeoning motor manufacturing sector and hitting its ability to meet carbon reduction targets. A new vehicle excise duty (VED) banding system is to be introduced for cars registered on...
Wincanton, the Chippenham-based logistics group, has appointed Tim Lawlor as group finance director and an executive director. He takes up the role on September 28, replacing Adrian Colman who will become chief executive on August 1. Current chief executive Eric Born steps down from that role on July 31 to take up a new...
