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Exeter Property Consultancy Announces Key Promotions

A leading property consultancy has announced two promotions in the infrastructure division of its Exeter office.

Fisher German LLP has promoted Richard Smale to Associate Partner, whilst Harry Whittle has also been promoted to Senior Associate.

Since arriving at the business in early 2024, Richard has played an integral role overseeing the ISD team, working across the South West and South of England.

Within his position he has worked with the firm’s clients in the water, electricity, and gas sectors, providing strategic oversight and advice on nationally...

Heart of the South West LEP award £2m in funding for digital skills and business support

Authored by Program
Posted: Tue, 08/16/2022 - 11:36pm

The Heart of the South West LEP have today announced that they have awarded funding for two new programmes providing digital skills and digital business support in the Heart of the South West region.

The Digital Skills Programme will be delivered through Devon County Council, and the Digital Skills Utilisation Programme will be delivered through Devon County Council and the Heart of the South West Growth Hub. Both programmes are due to run until March 2025 across Somerset, Devon, Plymouth and Torbay.

The Digital Skills Programme has three strands:

  • Working with
  • ...

New service launched to help the self-employed

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 08/16/2022 - 3:34pm

A new self-employment support service has been launched by a leading provider of work and wellbeing programmes. The new service is aimed at helping those that have a business idea, to receive the support they need to achieve their business goals.

Seetec Pluss’ self-employment service offers a range of workshops, coaching, one-to-one sessions with a trained business advisor, networking, and online information to help launch their business and become self-employed.

According to the Office of National Statistics (ONS), more than 5 million people are self-employed in the UK...

Old Mill strengthens Wealth Management team with appointment of Tom Parry

Old Mill strengthens Wealth Management team with appointment of Tom Parry

Authored by PR Prose
Posted: Tue, 08/16/2022 - 11:42am

Financial experts Old Mill have strengthened their Wealth Management team with the appointment of Chartered Financial Planner Tom Parry.

Tom, 43, has more than 20 years’ experience in financial services and comes to Old Mill from Independent Financial Advisers Integrity 365. Prior to that, he spent 11 years at Francis Clark, where he developed his specialisms in retirement planning and business protection.

In his new role, Tom, who lives in Exeter with his wife and two sons aged 13 and 11, will be based at Old Mill’s Exeter office where he will provide comprehensive...

Matt Fletcher and Lulu Williams from Optix Solutions

Summer sees growth for the team at Optix

Authored by Sue Cade
Posted: Tue, 08/16/2022 - 10:46am

The summer months are proving bright for Exeter digital marketing agency Optix Solutions with two new faces added to the team.

In July, Matt Fletcher was appointed as Digital Marketing Manager. Matt has a wealth of marketing experience across multiple disciplines including brand & digital strategy, SEO, email marketing, and social media.

Before joining Optix, his career was predominantly in the travel and leisure sector, including leading the brand marketing strategy and championing an integrated, multi-channel campaign approach for two well-known national self-catering...

Volvo Group UK Ltd adopts Devon waterless urinal tech to reduce emissions impact

Volvo Group UK Ltd is adopting Devon waterless urinal technology at its UK HQ in Warwick, and its Felixstowe Renault Truck Commercials Depot, to help cut CO2 and water waste. The flushless urinals are part of the organisation’s commitment to reach net-zero by 2040, covering direct and energy indirect emissions from operations, purchased goods and services.

The roll-out of the waterless urinals, provided by Exeter-based Smarti Environmental, is set to slash Volvo Group UK Ltd’s carbon footprint from its washrooms by 105kg of CO2 per urinal, per year. The switch from flushing to...

Industry sector focus helps Foot Anstey post £53.5m turnover and 8% growth and firm announces Ali Allan from PwC as its new CFOO

Foot Anstey, the national law firm with locations across the south and south-west of England, continued its story of organic growth as it announced turnover for the 2021-22 financial year of £53.5m – an increase of 8% on the previous year. This is the first time the firm has achieved an annual turnover of more than £50m.

The firm's industry sector strategy continued to bear fruit with sector turnover similarly up 8% on the previous year. In particular, this increase was driven by impressive performances by Foot Anstey's Energy & Infrastructure sector (up 22%), its Islamic...

Local Authority Building Control launch funded trainee scheme

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 08/15/2022 - 5:28pm

Local Authority Building Control (LABC), the membership organisation for 3,500 public service building surveyors in England and Wales, has launched a fully funded trainee scheme to attract new recruits into the profession.

Following the landmark Building Safety Act 2022, LABC is boosting building control capacity in light of new responsibilities and support for the Building Safety Regulator. The regulator will be responsible for ensuring the safety of all new higher risk buildings and for the oversight of 12,000 existing occupied tall buildings.

The capacity building...

4 Elements of Logistics Planning that Can Help Businesses

Authored by Simon Wells
Posted: Mon, 08/15/2022 - 6:35am

All businesses purchasing or selling materials and products need to plan a logistics strategy. This article lists a few of the most important elements that companies need to consider when developing their all-important plan.

Outsourcing

In many cases, outsourcing to a company like www.strlogistics.co.uk is a shrewd financial move. As with any other kind of outsourcing, logistics outsourcing allows a company to pass on some of the financial responsibility instead of bearing it themselves. Many aspects of logistics are outsourced regularly. Warehousing, overland...

What to consider before starting a practice in dentistry

Authored by Liv Butler
Posted: Mon, 08/15/2022 - 6:07am

So you want to open a dental practice in your town! While that is fantastic and can be very lucrative, you need to know what you are doing first. If you don’t ask these questions and really think through what your new practice is going to look like, you will run into some problems that could sink your dental practice before you really get it started.

Take some time to consider these points and come up with good valid answers for them before you start your career in dentistry.

Where will You Get Your Finances?

While many dentists focus on where they will build their...

How to train employees in the workplace

Authored by David Banks
Posted: Fri, 08/12/2022 - 8:57pm

Why invest in employee training? What is the best way to create an effective and new staff training system from scratch, and what format of classes should be chosen? How can a business owner motivate employees to learn?

Why is a new hire training program necessary?

A lot has been said about the importance of developing the professional qualities of employees, but in practice, employers are usually in no hurry to invest in training for staff. Unwisely, because the effective organisation of the personnel training system increases the company’s rating in the labour market...

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