Business

Dozens of food and drink producers from the South West will take part in a UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) trade mission this week at ANUGA, the World’s biggest food industry event, which takes place in Cologne, Germany. Companies from the South West, including Uffculme-based Willie's Cacao, Luscombe Drinks from South Devon, Proper Cornish Pasties from Bodmin and Somerdale Cheeses from Wellington will meet a range of buyers and suppliers, and visit a number of local food and drink producers. UKTI International Trade Adviser, Andrew Fraser, who is leading the South West delegation at ANUGA,...

Partnership between the city council and the private sector is key to the future prosperity of Exeter, the authority’s Chief Executive believes.

Karime Hassan, who is also the city council’s Growth Director, is to be a keynote speaker at the ATASS Respect Think Partnership conference being held at Woodbury Park in October (Thursday 17th).

With council budgets already under pressure and Exeter expecting direct funding from central government to fall in the coming years, he says that partnerships between councils, businesses and residents are the best way to ensure the city...

Digita, Thomson-Reuters’ Exmouth-based software house, is up for a top industry award.

Their software Digita Company Secretarial has been shortlisted in this year’s British Accountancy Awards as Practice Software Product of the Year.

It is part of a range of products produced to aid accountancy firms in their day to day practice.

Andrew Flanagan, Managing Director of Digita said: “One thing we really try to do at Thomson-Reuters is make complexity simple for our customers.”

“Our software is fully integrated into the overall Digita professional suite. We’ve...

In a recent survey of Devon and Cornwall Small Businesses only 13% of the businesses surveyed conduct Marketing Planning and yet 90% said that they see Marketing as important to the success of their business with 56% seeing it as critical to success*.

So what’s the problem? Why is there such a huge gap between those that do and those that don’t?

We believe it’s to do with 3 important factors: • The Perception of Marketing and the belief that anyone can do it • The Confusion about what’s out there and who to trust • The Price of professional advice

The Perception of...