Business

Exeter Chamber of Commerce & Industry has appointed three new directors to its board. Laura Seaward, audits and accounts manager at Haines Watts Chartered Accountants; Joanne Caine, director of Cathedral Appointments and Julie Hawker, joint chief executive of social enterprise Cosmic were appointed at the Chamber’s Annual General Meeting.

Laura Seaward, a qualified accountant with fourteen years’ experience across a number of the region’s most high-profile accounting firms, becomes Chamber treasurer. Ms Seaward takes on the role following the fifteen-year service of Ben de Cruz...

On Thursday 19th October , the Exeter Initiative for Science and Technology (ExIST) will be taking a closer look at AI and Robotics, focusing on emerging technologies, the sector’s impact on the workplace and the implications and effects of both on workplace and education needs currently and in the future.

Confirmed speakers for October’s quarterly event will include; Kate Doodson, Joint Chief Executive of Cosmic, David Ferguson, Head of Digital Innovation at EDF and John Laramy, Principal at Exeter College.

First on the agenda of speakers will be Kate Doodson, Joint Chief...

On Friday 22nd September, Southernhay Breakfast Club will welcome Cllr Phil Bialyk from Exeter City Council.

Councillor Bialyk is a Labour member for Exwick on Exeter City Council. He is Portfolio Holder for Health and Wellbeing, Communities and Sport.

He also has Responsibility for Bus Station Redevelopment, and is the councillor currently overseeing the major transformation of this key city centre site.

The city council is funding a state-of-the-art new leisure complex and a brand new Exeter Bus Station, and work is set to get underway shortly.

With the...

The first large law firm in the UK to bring in employee ownership has shared £800,000 equally between all of its eligible staff members. Exeter law firm, Stephens Scown LLP - the current holder of the UK Law Firm of the Year title from the British Legal Awards - has made the pay-out, which is an increase of 10 per cent on last year. In May the firm announced growth of 8 per cent for the year ended April 2017, with fee income rising to £19.285 million. Stephens Scown, which is also the highest ranking law firm in the prestigious Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For list, introduced...