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Why UK Omni-Channel Retailers in Exeter Are Turning to Payment Orchestration Platforms to Future-Proof Growth

Omni-channel retailers operating in the UK are experiencing a stage of structural change, which has been caused by a shift in the expectations of consumers, the costs involved in operations and the complexity in the physical and online sales channels. These pressures are extreme in the case of regional retailing centers like Exeter.

Local businesses have to compete with national chains and digital-first brands and stay relevant and operate efficiently at the local level. To this, most omni-channel retailers are resorting to payment orchestration platforms as a competitive ploy to...

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YMCA Exeter: Changing Rooms, Changing Lives

Businesses from around Exeter came together for an early morning networking breakfast to launch YMCA Exeter’s exciting 2017 campaign, Changing Rooms, Changing Lives.

This will see the renovation of the currently unhomely communal living space at its St David’s Hill accommodation centre, currently used by over 50 young people.

The event took place at Dean Clarke House, kindly hosted by Burrington Estates. Over pastries and coffees attendees heard from Peter Stephenson, Chief Executive of YMCA Exeter and Bethan Spencer, their Fundraising Manager, on exactly what this campaign...

Passionate and moving plea for everyone to care about Europe’s Muslim children selected for TED.com

Building relationships is key to stopping the cycle of violence, says UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and Emmy and Peabody award-winning documentary film director, Deeyah Khan.

Born in Norway to immigrant parents of Pashtun and Punjabi ancestry, she experienced many of the difficulties Muslim children growing up in European countries can face today. Aged 17, she fled from Norway confused, lost and torn between cultures. She chose film and music as the language for her social activism, not a gun.

Deeyah’s first, award-winning film, Banaz, explored a so-called ‘honour killing” in...

Breathing new life into Ottery St Mary

An East Devon entrepreneur is soon to move his primary business back into Ottery St Mary from Honiton’s Heathpark Industrial Estate.

Stuart Phillips is currently refurbishing a building at Finnimore Industrial Estate to provide a head office and more accommodation for his four businesses: Coverstructures, RMC Build, Tickety-Boo Retail and Coverstructures Property.

Mr Phillips, who was born and raised in the town, said: “I originally founded Coverstructures – a commercial roofing and wall cladding contractor – in Ottery St Mary, and have wanted to move back here for some...

Key gathering for South West tech sector

Companies from across the South West have come together to shape plans for the region’s fast growing technology sector at Exeter Science Park. Tech South West Connect on 25 January saw more than 80 people, representing technology organisations, discuss and agree plans to develop the sector and help it thrive across the region.

Hosted by global procurement platform blur Group, whose headquarters are at the Science Park, the event saw organisations from Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Bristol get involved.

As well as discussing and deciding activity, to support the tech sector’...

Capital Air Ambulance achieves global reach

Capital Air Ambulance (Capital), the aeromedical brand of Rigby Group’s aviation division and the UK’s No 1 provider of fixed wing air ambulance services, is now offering global medical and repatriation flights following the addition of a Learjet 45 Aircraft to its growing fleet.

The new aircraft - added to Capital’s Air Operator’s Certificate with worldwide coverage this month - has already completed operations to India and the United Arab Emirates and has enabled the UK’s preeminent domestically owned aeromedical operator to begin offering unlimited international services with...

Exeter PR firm ranked top 5 in the SW

Astley Media, Exeter’s award winning PR, marketing and design company has been ranked top five in the South West by a respected business review. The criteria, for the ranking, includes the number of staff and retained clients, as well as agency income.

This latest accolade for Astley Media comes hot on the heels of the agency’s award success at the end of 2016, when it won Silver for Outstanding Small Consultancy of the Year at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations PRide Awards (South of England). Dan Pritchard, Astley Media’s MD, comments:

“We are proud to be the...

FCA authorisation for Exeter finance business

Bricks Finance issues new investor’s Bond

Exeter and East Devon based Bricks Finance has announced that the business has now been authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

The FCA is the UK’s financial regulatory body overseeing the conduct of financial firms that provide services to consumers and it regulates all conduct related to the marketing of financial products.

Bricks Finance, which made its first loan in May 2015, currently has a loan book of over £5 million and has made loan offers over its first two years of £14 million.

Founder Clive...

Sir Robert McAlpine contracts up for grabs

On Wednesday 25th January, Constructionline is hosting a supplier engagement event to connect local tradespeople in the Exeter area with leading UK building and civil engineering company Sir Robert McAlpine as it looks to source suppliers for three new projects.

Sir Robert McAlpine is targeting £100m worth of work within the Exeter area for 2017-2019. The three projects will consist of three projects that include a leisure centre, student accommodation and the extension to the Princesshay shopping centre.

The company is looking for subcontractors for every aspect of the...

Ashfords LLP raises £78,679 for Parkinson's UK

National provider of legal and professional services, Ashfords LLP, has successfully raised a sum of over £78,000 for Parkinson's UK, the firm's Charity of the Year 2016. Parkinson's UK is a charity that drives better care, treatments and quality of life for those affected by Parkinson's.

Ashfords initially set themselves a fundraising target of £75,000 to raise money for the charity's confidential helpline, a vital resource that provides a lifeline to people living with Parkinson's as well as those who support them. As the firm not only met that target, but continued to raise...

Exeter aims to be Britain's first Cyber City

A group of Exeter businesses has banded together to raise awareness about tackling cyber attacks, currently the UK’s fastest rising crime.

The aim is to make Exeter Britain’s first Cyber City with a special week of events being held next month, to educate businesses as a matter of urgency on how to prevent being hacked and what steps to take after a cyber attack.

Cyber Security Awareness Week (Feb 6 – 10) will feature a series of workshops, talks and one-to-one sessions in venues around the city. Among the demonstrations will be a ‘live’ ransomware attack, showing just how...

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Why UK Omni-Channel Retailers in Exeter Are Turning to Payment Orchestration Platforms to Future-Proof Growth

YMCA Exeter: Changing Rooms, Changing Lives

Passionate and moving plea for everyone to care about Europe’s Muslim children selected for TED.com

Breathing new life into Ottery St Mary

Key gathering for South West tech sector

Capital Air Ambulance achieves global reach

Exeter PR firm ranked top 5 in the SW

FCA authorisation for Exeter finance business

Sir Robert McAlpine contracts up for grabs

Ashfords LLP raises £78,679 for Parkinson's UK

Exeter aims to be Britain's first Cyber City

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