Chippenham-based specialist IT group SciSys is expanding into the retail industry following the acquisition of a small software application development firm. SciSys, which works in sectors spanning space, defence, media and government, is paying a maximum of £3.2m for Leicester-based Xibis, which it expects to be immediately earnings-enhancing. SciSys said the Xibis has a...
Confidence among law firms in the South West is at its highest since 2006, according to new research, with a third planning to open new offices next year. However, most also say that competition has got tougher with cashflow management a particular challenge. The snapshot of a sector undergoing fundamental change emerges from the...
Hungarian airline Wizz Air, the largest low-cost carrier in Central and Eastern Europe, is to launch flights from Bristol Airport to the Polish city of Katowice. The twice-weekly service will start on June 26 and operate every Monday and Friday. Bristol will be the 106th airport in the Budapest-based airline’s route network, which stretches...
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has hailed an “historic” job-creating £129m boost to the economy of Swindon and Wiltshire. The Government-funded Growth Deal, which was previously announced in July, will help create up to 1,500 jobs, allow up to 2,000 homes to be built by 2021 and generate up to £70m in public and...
The Swindon & Wiltshire Initiative has welcomed another fall in unemployment but warned that “fundamental weaknesses” remain in the economy which threaten to hold back recovery. Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show unemployment across the South West fell by 2,000 between August and October, taking the region’s jobless rate down...
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