Business

Exeter Library’s Business and Intellectual Property (IP) Centre is gearing up to host two inspiring business events on Tuesday 7th February, led by well-known entrepreneurs and sales experts.

First up, professional sales coach and respected business advisor Alison Edgar will lead a session entitled ‘Go from zero to sales hero with the four pillars of selling’. The session will introduce attendees to the four key elements all businesses need in order to increase sales and grow their business.

Alison, who is known as ‘The Entrepreneur’s Godmother’, has been recognised as one...

Leading South West firm in running to become national public champion in Europe’s largest business competition Leading South West law firm Stephens Scown LLP hopes to gain public backing to become the ‘National Public Champion’ for the UK in this year’s European Business Awards. The company has posted a video online at www.businessawardseurope.com telling the unique story of its business, focussing on how important its home in Devon and Cornwall is and explaining how its clients and staff have inspired the firm to change and improve. The firm hopes the video will inspire the general public...

Building relationships is key to stopping the cycle of violence, says UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and Emmy and Peabody award-winning documentary film director, Deeyah Khan.

Born in Norway to immigrant parents of Pashtun and Punjabi ancestry, she experienced many of the difficulties Muslim children growing up in European countries can face today. Aged 17, she fled from Norway confused, lost and torn between cultures. She chose film and music as the language for her social activism, not a gun.

Deeyah’s first, award-winning film, Banaz, explored a so-called ‘honour killing” in...

Companies from across the South West have come together to shape plans for the region’s fast growing technology sector at Exeter Science Park. Tech South West Connect on 25 January saw more than 80 people, representing technology organisations, discuss and agree plans to develop the sector and help it thrive across the region.

Hosted by global procurement platform blur Group, whose headquarters are at the Science Park, the event saw organisations from Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Bristol get involved.

As well as discussing and deciding activity, to support the tech sector’...