Business

Exeter-based Chartered financial planners Shipman Financial Planning have been recognised as best in their field by a prestigious business magazine read across the world.

Shipman - based off Southernhay, Exeter - has been voted Client Choice winner of the 2014 Corporate Intl Magazine Global Award: Family Business Advisory Firm of the Year in England.

The award is given to companies who, as well as being successful over the past 12 months, have also shown "excellence not only in expertise but in service".

Corporate Intl magazine has 350,000 subscribers in 150...

Exeter have completed their part of the Basepoint Relay Cycle Challenge in aid of Sport Relief set by Basepoint HQ.

Each of the 30 Basepoint centres were challenged to cycle to the next nearest centre.

Centre Manager, John, and Assistant Centre Manager, Amy, on Tuesday cycled 62 miles between them... the equivalent of the distance between Basepoint Exeter and Basepoint Weymouth.

They then set the Exeter Licensees a challenge - to cycle the distance between the Basepoint Centres in Exeter, Weymouth, Bournemouth and Gosport - a total of 143 miles in a day.

The...

Exeter Chamber of Commerce & Industry sees a new board member join this month. Laura McFadyen from Stephens Scown LLP in Exeter has recently come on board as the 15th member of the Chamber Council.

Laura has a broad range of legal work experience, which includes working for a FTSE Top 20 oil and gas company and law firms in London, Colchester and Southampton. She qualified as a solicitor in 2000.

Laura now works as an Employment lawyer at Stephens Scown. Her clients are generally businesses in Devon and Cornwall, ranging from schools, charities, manufacturing and retail...

A Devon company is to launch a pioneering new app hailed as the ultimate all-in-one aid for residents and visitors alike in Devon.

Westward M. S. Ltd, a company which creates campaigns for many Devon attractions, has entered a franchise agreement with Seymac Distribution, of Redruth, Cornwall, to develop its new App For concept.

The two firms are long-established and the principal distributors of tourism and leisure promotional material in their respective counties. Seymac has already launched AppforCornwall and is now hoping to roll out the franchise nationwide, county by...