Specialist learning and development group RTS has appointed experienced automotive management consultant Allan Sherburne as its international business development manager. Chippenham-based RTS, which specialises in developing frontline staff in the automotive sector, already trades heavily overseas. Allan, pictured, joins as it aims to step up its operations in the Middle East and the Asia...
Vectura, the Chippenham-based drugs development group, has appointed pharmaceutical industry veteran Dr Per-Olof Andersson as a non-executive director. Dr Andersson has an international research and development track record within the pharmaceuticals, bio-pharmaceuticals and speciality pharmaceutical industry and considerable experience in respiratory therapeutic development. He retired from Spanish pharmaceutical firm Almirall in 2011 after serving as...
The BBC has awarded a contract worth up to £6m to specialist Wiltshire IT firm SciSys to buy its groundbreaking radio technology. Under the three to four year contract, Chippenham-based SciSys will supply its dira! product for use by BBC Radio, paving the way for an integrated audio production system across BBC national, regional...
Wiltshire-based financial planning firm Proposito is celebrating a double boost – a move to larger premises and accreditation by its industry’s professional body. The firm has relocated from Malmesbury to larger premises on the town’s outskirts, doubling its space to also include two meeting rooms, which will help it accommodate a growing client base...
Honda is to invest £200m upgrading its giant Swindon plant to make it the global manufacturing centre for the next-generation Civic. Today’s announcement appears to secure the future of the plant, which has been hit by job losses and production cut backs over the past few years. Production of the new five-door Civic is...
Each week Swindon Business News gives a prominent member of the area’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Chris Griffin, director of Sensata, which specialises in IT support and services to small and medium sized businesses, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? It was...
