Business

International materials handling company STILL UK has signed a deal for a new £5m facility at Hill Barton Business Park in Exeter.

Planning consent was granted in May for the new 5,100 sq m building that will become the UK HQ for the company. Contracts were exchanged last week.

Nick Smith, managing director of STILL UK, said: “STILL is delighted to have now legally committed to this exciting project.

“Working with Stuart Properties and JLL, we have designed our new facility, which will be our UK headquarters. This is great news for the business and particularly our...

Overall business confidence has risen in the South West in the last six months, underpinned by companies’ expectations of an improvement in exports as well as an anticipated increase in investment levels, according to the latest Business in Britain report from Lloyds Bank. The twice-yearly report, now in its 23rd year, gathers the views of 1,500 UK companies, predominantly small to medium sized businesses, and tracks overall business confidence, which is based on the balance of firms expecting an increase in sales, orders and profits over the next six months. Since the last report in...

swcomms is warning businesses to be wary of Broadband Connection Voucher suppliers who are using them in a fraudulent or non-compliant basis.

The Broadband Connection Voucher scheme offers up to £3,000 to help SMEs, sole traders, registered charities and social enterprises take advantage of improved Internet connectivity options of 20Mbps download speeds or more.

As an approved Broadband Connection Voucher supplier, swcomms receives regular bulletins from BDUK, the body behind the Government-funded scheme.

The latest editions have revealed growing concerns about...

A new Peer to Peer lending business has been started in Exeter by four well-known and highly successful local business people.

Bricks Financial Limited will fill a gap in the market for swift, bespoke asset based lending to local high net worth individuals and businesses based on a sensible, rapid and transparent approach.

The founding directors have over 100 years of experience between them in the commercial, property, finance and legal sectors.

They include: Clive Banks who has spent 24 years in investment banking and has current interests in wind and solar power...