Business

Leading South West law firm Stephens Scown has underlined its support for the rural economy in the region with the appointment of a new consultant with extensive financial and relationship management experience in the agriculture industry.

David Perriment joins Stephens Scown after 42 years at NatWest bank. He spent more than 25 years of that period involved in agricultural banking with his last 15 years as Senior Agricultural Relationship Manager where he managed a portfolio of more than 100 large farming clients across dairy, beef, sheep, arable and diversified enterprises....

Exeter Chamber’s subgroup, Exeter Sustainable Business Network (ESBN) held its latest event covering the topic, ‘The future of work’.

Speakers Kate Doodson, Business & Operations Manager at Cosmic and Robert Pye, co-founder of Ethos Valuable Outcomes spoke to delegates about how to make work in the future benefit their businesses.

Kate took attendees through the world of technology and what will happen in the very near future.

Kate Doodson, Cosmic said, “I think events like this are really important to stress to businesses how much and how far they have to move...

Whilst nearly two in five (39%) companies plan to ramp up hiring in the second half of 2015, new research from Robert Half UK reveals that HR directors still favour traditional methods of recruitment, such as job postings or enlisting a recruitment consultancy, over referrals and word of mouth to secure the strongest candidates. Less than a fifth (17%) of management-level and staff-level job openings are filled through referrals, whether from employee recommendations or personal networks. The study, conducted amongst HR directors, reveals that the vast majority (78%) of HR directors hire...

The Exeter branch of RGB Building Supplies will be holding their first ever Health and Safety Week between Monday 15th and Friday 19th June highlighting some of the industry’s health risks and ways that they can be minimised.

The event coincides with the national campaign which aims to encourage companies to implement new initiatives throughout the year to counter any health and safety concerns.

Throughout the week, RGB will be displaying posters giving advice to customers about how they can reduce some hazards, as well as highlighting some of the solutions that it has to...