Swindon’s commercial property market is back on track after hitting the buffers during the recession, a major new report shows – with the rail industry providing much of the growth. The latest Market Monitor from property agents Alder King shows a turnaround in fortunes for Swindon, particularly in the key town centre office market....
Swindon digital marketing company toinfinity is appealing for registered charities in Wiltshire to apply to receive online support worth £10,000. The firm, based on the Windmill Hill Business Park, will work with its chosen charity for a year to audit its online offering and help it make the most of available digital and online...
Swindon has taken another step to becoming a major UK centre for alternative, low-emission fuels with the official opening of the country’s largest privately-owned compressed natural gas (CNG) refuelling station. The facility at logistics group Howard Tenens’ 25-acre Stratton site was opened by transport minister Stephen Hammond. The group now has four CNG stations...
Hi-tech innovator Plessey has signed a distribution agreement to grow sales of its world-beating lighting technology in Central and Eastern Europe, Italy and Denmark. The semiconductor firm, which was the cornerstone of Swindon’s electronics and microchip industry and still has an office in the town, is developing lighting products using gallium-nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) technology. These...
Swindon public relations firm redheadPR is providing support worth £1,000 to local athlete Kev Tonner as he prepares to represent Great Britain at a major triathlon event next month. He will take part in the 2014 Edmonton ITU Sprint Distance Triathlon World Championships having earlier this year won the men’s senior race in his...
Integrated circuit pioneer Dialog Semiconductor has donated £80,000 to UTC Swindon as the college gears up to welcome its first students in September. Dialog, which has an engineering support office on Swindon’s Delta office park, is splitting its donation equally between investment in specialist equipment for the UTC and funding to support its first...
