Swindon & Wiltshire News Monday October 21 2019 Energy supplier to implement new customer service platform in 2020 Good Energy, recently given the highest green energy supplier rating from Which?, is implementing a new customer technology platform developed by Which?’s highest rated supplier for service. The platform will be implemented in 2020, enabling the Chippenham-based firm’s strategic […]
Swindon & Wiltshire News Friday October 18 2019 M4 tunnel plans go on display Plans for a £26m tunnel scheme under the M4 at Wichelstowe been made public. The highways scheme would unlock 12.5 hectares of land for business use, creating around 2,000 new jobs. The scheme would also provide access to land […]
Swindon & Wiltshire News Friday October 18 2019 Nationwide invests in banking tech provider ahead of business banking launch Building society Nationwide has invested in ‘open banking’ vendor BankiFi as it prepares to roll out business banking accounts. BankiFi uses open banking to provide a suite of business microservices which plug into banking infrastructure through APIs. The technology […]
Swindon & Wiltshire Property Friday October 18 2019 New offices for enterprise partnership Swindon and Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership has moved into offices at the newly-refurbished Digital Mansion Corsham. The previously vacant landmark building in Corsham town centre was opened in March this year. A new glass-fronted extension was added to the […]
Swindon & Wiltshire News Thursday October 17 2019 WH Smith agrees $400m takeover of American retailer WH Smith is expanding in the international travel market after striking a $400m (£312m) deal to acquire American rival Marshall Retail Group. The retailer, which employs 500 staff at its national headquarters at Greenbridge in Swindon, says the acquisition […]
Swindon & Wiltshire News Thursday October 17 2019 Law firm recognised again in prestigious Legal 500 guide The family law team at Goughs Solicitors has again been recognised in the market-leading guide to law firms in the south-west. The Legal 500 is widely regarded as a definitive list of leading UK and worldwide law firms, and […]
Swindon & Wiltshire Property Thursday October 17 2019 Eye-catching retail premises changes hands A shop and offices with a striking Union Flag mural is changing from a recruitment agency to an estate agents. The mural was painted to celebrate the Queen’s diamond jubilee in 2012 as part of a street party thrown […]
Swindon & Wiltshire News Wednesday October 16 2019 Sports therapist fighting fit on fifth anniversary A sports therapist who opened a clinic on Bumpers Farm in 2014 is celebrating five years of growth – and has signed a further five-year lease on her premises. Over the past half-decade, the Active Potential Therapy team has […]
Swindon & Wiltshire News Wednesday October 16 2019 Firm to produce carbon-neutral packaging after £5.5m investment A manufacturer of corrugated cardboard material – part-owned by local packaging manufacturer GWP Group – has invested £5.5m in the creation of a sustainable energy generation facility fuelled by organic waste. The investment in CorrBoard Bioenergy (CB Bio) will […]
Swindon & Wiltshire Experts Wednesday October 16 2019 Expert opinion: Who’s the boss – could you run a business with your life partner? Five tips for survival After 27 years of marriage and 17 of those working together running our business inspired2learn, we are both still smiling (mostly). Many of our friends and colleagues have said they can imagine nothing worse than working with their life […]
Swindon & Wiltshire Appointments Tuesday October 15 2019 New faces at family department of law firm Law firm Forrester Sylvester Mackett has promoted Ruth Jackson to head its family law department, following the retirement of Nigel Godsiffe. The firm has also appointed Lucy Buttle to the department. Ruth is a partner at FSM Solicitors, having worked […]
Swindon & Wiltshire News Tuesday October 15 2019 New group in pipeline to support manufacturers A new manufacturing cluster group is to be established by the Swindon & Wiltshire Initiative at Business West, bringing together businesses in the sector to tackle shared challenges around skills, infrastructure and more. The establishment of the group was […]
Swindon & Wiltshire News Tuesday October 15 2019 Tax and audit firm warns of governance ‘ticking timebomb’ at board level An overwhelming 96 percent of company board members expect to see an increase in the number of criminal prosecutions of those senior executives and organisations implicated for poor risk management, according to a new survey from Swindon-based tax and […]
Swindon & Wiltshire News Monday October 14 2019 Trainee accountant achieves world best results in exams When accounts assistant Kalina Forbes took the latest of her professional qualification exams little did she know she would soon be named best in the world. But that is exactly what happened to Kalina, 25, who is on a […]
Swindon & Wiltshire News Monday October 14 2019 Aggregate firm delivers 1.5 millionth cubic metres of concrete Aggregate firm Hills Quarry Products has delivered its one-and-a-half millionth cubic metre of concrete. The Swindon-based firm reached the milestone last week, less than 15 years after it started supplying ready mixed concrete. The firm has five concrete plants […]
