Swindon-based Arkell’s Brewery has continued its investment programme in its estate to meet growing demand for pubs with rooms. Work starts this week on a £1.4m transformation of The White Hart at Stratton St Margaret, Swindon, which will add a 24-room accommodation extension. It is the latest investment in quality hotel-type rooms at its...
Each week Swindon Business News gives a prominent member of the town’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Mark Kennedy, director of Akcess, a Swindon-based community interest company specialising in special needs school transport and transport for wheelchair users and elderly people with mobility problems, answers our 10 questions....
Car giant Honda’s new range of Swindon-built models will make it one of this year’s top motoring brands as it puts years of troubles behind it. The verdict comes from Glass’s – the largest vehicle data provider in Europe and publisher of the industry-standard Glass’s Guide to Car Values. It says the “complete reinvention”...
Highly-acquisitive Chippenham-based speciality pharmaceutical company Alliance Pharma has hit the takeover trail again, snapping up eye care products firm MacuVision Europe for £5.5m. MacuVision sells MacuShield, a once-a-day capsule eye care treatment taken by sufferers of dry age-related macular degeneration and other eye conditions. In the year to March 31 Solihull-based MacuVision made earnings...
The Business Show Swindon returns for its fifth year in April with organisers Business West promising an event that will showcase the town’s go-ahead businesses and offer a range of support for anyone starting or growing a business. Staged again at the town’s STEAM railway museum, it will provide a platform for firms to...
The freehold of a 8,500 sq ft terrace of office units on the Lakeside Business Park in South Cerney has been bought by a private investment company – the latest deal in the Swindon area’s strongly-recovering commercial property market. Swindon property consultants Alder King and Wells Commercial sold Units A7 – A10 for an...
