Business

National Law firm, Foot Anstey LLP has advised the shareholders of Naturesave Policies Ltd, the UK's leading green and ethical insurance provider, on its sale to Lloyd & Whyte Ltd, the Taunton-based financial planning and specialist insurance service company.

Founded 28 years ago, Naturesave Policies has won awards for its top ethical rating insurance by the Good Shopping Guide and the Queen's Award for Enterprise for Sustainable development.

In 1995, Naturesave Policies created the Naturesave Trust, its own registered charity. Naturesave Insurance has donated over £1...

Work has begun on Heat the Streets low carbon heating installations in Carlyon Bay and Harlyn Bay.

Drilling has started for boreholes that will form shared loop ground arrays to be connected to Kensa ground source heat pumps. The heat pumps will supply the homeowners with 100% of their heat and hot water all year round.

Kensa's Shared Ground Loop Arrays are an ultra-low temperature heat network used with ground source heat pumps. In a similar setup to a traditional gas framework, a series of boreholes are linked to create a shared ground loop array that provides heat to...

Exeter based wealth management and accountancy firm Old Mill has acquired Ilminster financial outsourcing firm Brook Financial as part of its ambitious growth plans to become the fastest-growing practice in the South West.

The deal is the first of a number of carefully chosen acquisitions that will - alongside organic growth - support Old Mill as it targets 15% pa growth for the next five years, and aims to double the size of the business by 2026.

Brook Financial was launched by husband-and-wife team Alison and Kevin Smith in 2006, to offer a solution for ambitious...

A forward-thinking Exeter digital marketing agency is reaping the benefits of implementing a shadow board.

Since Optix Solutions created the model over a year ago to ensure succession planning was in place and bring insights from a younger generation into strategic decision making the company has seen impressive growth of around 43 per cent.

“The primary intention is for the shadow board to bridge the gap between the established leadership and team-side employees who can offer fresh thinking and creativity,” explains Optix MD Rob Stevens.

“We realised that the board...