Commercial property agent Daniel Smethurst has launched his own business, Smethurst Property Consultants, to focus on the Wiltshire and Gloucestershire region. Daniel, pictured, has more than 14 years’ commercial property experience in the region, having spent 11 years at Swindon firm Whitmarsh Lockhart, which he joined as a graduate surveyor, before becoming a...
UTAX (UK), the country’s largest office equipment partner-only network, has continued to expand with a number of new appointments. The new joiners arrive shortly after the Shrivenham-based firm, which specialises in document management equipment such as printers and copiers, posted annual UK partner sales up 19.3% to £11.6m – its fourth consecutive year of...
Deborah Heenan, Swindon Borough Council’s development manager for Wichelstowe, is to become interim chief executive officer for economic regeneration company Forward Swindon. She will take up the role on November 3 and stay in the post until a permanent chief executive has been recruited. Ms Heenan brings specialist knowledge and skills in housing, development...
Swindon-based specialist recruitment firm Outsource UK has hit the acquisition trail again, taking over Manchester recruitment consultancy Chrysalis Digital Recruitment. The acquisition is Outsource’s third in three years following the November 2011 takeover of Staffordshire-based Omnium IT Recruitment and the July 2013 deal which added Manchester-based defence and engineering recruitment firm Bramlove to the...
The Legal 500 names the following as Swindon’s leading lawyers: Andrew Braithwaite Thrings (Intellectual property) Peter Cusick Thrings (Agriculture and estates) Simon Elliman Withy King (Clinical negligence) Louise Hart Withy King (Personal injury) Jeremy Holt Clark Holt (IT and telecoms)
Staff at Chippenham-based learning and development company RTS netted more than £500 when they downed tools to support the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning. The firm’s 50-plus employees made cakes – and ate them – to raise funds for the national annual event run in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. The £500 included a generous...
