Business

Honiton’s Chamber of Commerce and the East Devon branch of the Federation of Small Businesses have joined forces to put on a free business advice and networking event at the Beehive in Honiton, and they are looking for exhibitors to take part.

The ‘Honiton Together’ event on September 24 will see representatives from local banks, accountants, law firms, printers and other organisations coming together under one roof to give advice on a variety of issues from setting up a business to corporation tax, business banking and support services.

Event organiser and Chairman of...

Leading South West law firm Stephens Scown has underlined its support for the rural economy in the region with the appointment of a new consultant with extensive financial and relationship management experience in the agriculture industry.

David Perriment joins Stephens Scown after 42 years at NatWest bank. He spent more than 25 years of that period involved in agricultural banking with his last 15 years as Senior Agricultural Relationship Manager where he managed a portfolio of more than 100 large farming clients across dairy, beef, sheep, arable and diversified enterprises....

Exeter Chamber’s subgroup, Exeter Sustainable Business Network (ESBN) held its latest event covering the topic, ‘The future of work’.

Speakers Kate Doodson, Business & Operations Manager at Cosmic and Robert Pye, co-founder of Ethos Valuable Outcomes spoke to delegates about how to make work in the future benefit their businesses.

Kate took attendees through the world of technology and what will happen in the very near future.

Kate Doodson, Cosmic said, “I think events like this are really important to stress to businesses how much and how far they have to move...

Whilst nearly two in five (39%) companies plan to ramp up hiring in the second half of 2015, new research from Robert Half UK reveals that HR directors still favour traditional methods of recruitment, such as job postings or enlisting a recruitment consultancy, over referrals and word of mouth to secure the strongest candidates. Less than a fifth (17%) of management-level and staff-level job openings are filled through referrals, whether from employee recommendations or personal networks. The study, conducted amongst HR directors, reveals that the vast majority (78%) of HR directors hire...