Swindon-based digital marketing agency Smarter Media has expanded its public relations capability with the appointment of former Swindon Advertiser sports editor Steve Butt as head of PR and social media. He will head the agency’s new public relations division Smarter PR and manage Smarter Social, its social media department. Smarter Media managing director Karl...
The Chancellor produced a balanced Autumn Statement that addressed business concerns around rates reform and finance, Swindon business leaders have said. Ian Larrard, director of the Initiative in Swindon & Wiltshire, part of Business West, described it as a “crowd-pleasing” set of proposals for business, particularly its pledge for a major review into the...
National business groups have broadly welcomed measures in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, but said he could have done more to boost innovation. The CBI described the major changes on stamp duty and business rates would be as “a shot in the arm for families and growing firms as they look towards 2015”. Director-general John...
Chancellor George Osborne has delivered his 2015 Autumn Statement. Key points: Compared to his first Autumn Statement four years ago, the Chancellor said there was now higher growth, lower unemployment, falling inflation and a deficit half what the Government inherited "Our economic plan is working," he said. "Britain back living within its means." But...
Swindon-based independent public relations consultancy redheadPR has become a member of GIMA, the Garden Industry Manufacturers’ Association. Redheadpr has worked with many leading brands in the gardening sector including Anthony Tesselaar International, raingardenkits.co.uk, John Woods Nurseries, grow-your-own specialist Stewart Garden and gardening broadcaster and writer Pippa Greenwood, who supported the Stewart Garden Schools campaign....
Export chiefs hope that a former shipping container covered with colourful street art will hold the key to getting more Swindon firms to take their business to the world. Launched this week, Business West’s #GetExporting campaign highlights the benefits of exporting in an innovative way. The eye-catching container, spray-painted by a pair of Bristol...
