Monday 3 November Trading statements: HSBC, Telecity AGMs: Abcam, Plutus Powergen EGM: New World Resources Economics: Markit UK Purchasing managers’ index – manufacturing, Halifax house prices Tuesday 4 November Interims: Advanced Computer Software, DCC Finals: Associated British Foods, Imperial Tobacco Trading statements: 888 Holdings, Biome Technologies, Hilton Food Group, Jardine Lloyd Thompson, Legal &...
Swindon has strengthened its standing as a leading centre for innovation in low-emission motoring by officially opening the UK’s first refuelling station that produces ‘green’ hydrogen on site. The new state-of-the-art facility at car giant Honda’s manufacturing plant at South Marston will produce hydrogen from solar power by electrolysis for use in hydrogen commercial...
Independent Swindon games developer Fayju has won a major innovation award for Amazing Frog? – a game which features the firm’s hometown as the backdrop to its character’s free-running exploits. Fayju, based above the Wyvern Theatre, won the Best Game category at last night’s Sparkies, the awards which showcase the West of England’s growing...
The Swindon office of Novum Law, the national firm specialising in serious injury and medical negligence, has won a £4m High Court settlement for a young Wiltshire man after an eight-year legal battle. Paul Vallance suffered a serious brain injury following a head-on car crash on a country road near Swindon when he was...
Swindon-based vehicle telematics specialist CMS SupaTrak is making huge savings after installing cutting-edge cloud-based software provided as part of an overhaul of its systems. The finance, accounting and business information system developed by Bristol-based Xledger has already resulted in a saving of around £100,000 across a four-month period by automating a repeat sales ordering...
Three colour copiers developed by Shrivenham-based UTAX (UK) have landed awards from a leading independent authority on office products. The A4 models received the Buyers Laboratory Summer 2014 Pick awards for Outstanding Solutions-Enabled A4 Colour MFP for Small Workgroups. Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI) is the imaging industry’s leading independent authority and provider of competitive...
