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Small Infrastructure Improvements That Can Make a Big Difference at Work

When businesses think about improving the workplace, attention often goes straight to the big stuff. New equipment, major refurbishments and expensive technology upgrades tend to grab the headlines. Yet some of the most effective changes are far less dramatic. Small infrastructure improvements can make everyday work safer, smoother and more efficient without requiring a complete overhaul.

The trick is paying attention to the little obstacles employees deal with every day. A minor inconvenience that happens once might not seem important, but when it is repeated hundreds of times...

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Dragons' Den whizz-kid aquires Bargain Parking

A young whizz kid – who persuaded two of the Dragons from the popular TV show to part with £60,000 – has now acquired a parking business from an Exeter-born entrepreneur.

The success story first began for Harrison Woods when he appeared on the hit show in 2012. The 24 year old survived the dreaded Dragons’ Den to secure the investment for his first parking space rental company from Theo Paphitis and Peter Jones.

Harrison has now gone into partnership with another success story, Bargain Parking, run by another young businessman from Exeter, Damian Rooney.

Mr Rooney...

Voting now open for Exeter BID

Voting has opened for the Exeter Business Improvement District (BID).

640 businesses from across Exeter City Centre are eligible to vote on the scheme, which if voted in will raise £2.4 million over the next five years.

As the vote opens, three businesses within the BID area have their say:

Graham Austin, Corporate Director for Devon & Cornwall at Barclays

I think voting on the BID is vital if Exeter is to reach its potential. There is plenty of competition out there with other cities and towns raising their game and other competition coming in from...

Exeter managing partner re-appointed

Browne Jacobson’s Managing Partner Iain Blatherwick has been unanimously re-appointed for a further three years by the firm’s 96-strong partnership, as of 1st May 2015.

Browne Jacobson has seen unprecedented growth since Iain took over the strategic direction and development of the firm from Brian Smith in May 2009. During his stewardship he has steered the firm towards a record breaking turnover of £50.2m as well as overseeing the opening of new offices in Manchester and Exeter and, more recently, the relocation of its London office to 6 Bevis Marks. He has also spearheaded the...

Exeter players join local business chiefs

Members of the Exeter Chiefs rugby team turned out in force last night for a business forum hosted by The Rugby Players’ Association (RPA) at Sapphire Living Space in Topsham.

Organised as part of the Player Development Programme (PDP), players from the Senior and Academy squads met representatives from local industry sectors including Sapphire Spaces, Rhead Group and Bluesoup.

The Rugby Players’ Association represents the interests of professional rugby players with three areas of focus, player welfare, player development and The RPA’s Official Charity, Restart. The Player...

PCE moves to new premises in Exeter

Premier Communication Electronics (PCE) has moved into new premises in Exeter to accommodate its business growth.

The much larger 0.8-acre site in Bittern Road is a short journey from the two-way radio and in-vehicle communications specialist’s former premises in Osprey Road, also on the Sowton Industrial Estate. The company move into its new premises yesterday, 2015.

Karen Langley, PCE’s CEO, said: “We outgrew our former premises as we needed more space to be able to accommodate the increasing amount of work we have been taking on from emergency services, public sector and...

Chiefs insight at business breakfast

Guests at this Friday's b2b at Sandy Park event will get an exclusive insight into all the latest goings on at Exeter Chiefs courtesy of assistant coach Ali Hepher.

The business breakfast is one of the fastest growing networking events in the city.

Ali will be on hand for a special Q & A where he will be taking questions from the floor.

Meanwhile, Embracing Chaos will be the subject of a talk by the CEO of the award-winning PR and Marketing agency Astley Media, Marc Astley.

Marc will discuss the threats and opportunities facing businesses as technolgy...

Devon women excel at business awards

The second year of the Venus Business Women Awards National Finals doubled in size with 124 regional winners compete for a National Venus Award Trophy.

The Venus Awards National Finals is something quite unique and special. It brings together all the regional winners, a group of truly inspirational and influential women, to an event where the crème de la crème vie for the National title in their respective categories. This year 23 winners from eight regions were crowned at a lunchtime celebration held at the beautiful and stunning Hand Picked Hotel - Audley’s Wood, Basingstoke. The...

£10m investment paying off for holiday park

One of Devon’s biggest independent holiday parks is enjoying a record-breaking start to the year, with bookings up nearly 50%.

Multi-award winning Ladram Bay Holiday Park, on the Jurassic coast overlooking its own bay and beach between Sidmouth and Budleigh Salterton, saw bookings rise by 46% in the first full week of January, and then by 52% the following week, compared with the same period in 2014.

Ahead of re-opening after the winter break on Friday March 13, work is well underway on phase two of a £10 million re-development at the family-run park, with the swimming pool...

UK-first renewable heat network demonstration secures research funding

A low carbon heating project led by E.ON working with the University of Exeter and technology providers SK Solar and Star Renewable Energy has been awarded a Government research grant to carry out the feasibility work to create a UK-first community-wide energy scheme based on emissions-free renewable energy sources.

The project, to be funded by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), is based at E.ON’s energy centre in Cranbrook to the east of Exeter will seek to demonstrate how solar thermal panels and heat pumps can replace or work alongside the existing gas-fired...

Embrace chaos in business

Embracing Chaos will be the subject of a talk at this Friday's b2b Networking event at Sandy Park, the home of the Exeter Chiefs.

Experienced journalist, editor, media commentator and CEO of the award-winning PR and Marketing agency Astley Media, Marc Astley will discuss the threats and opportunities facing businesses as technolgy improves at an ever faster rate.

Marc said: "Research by Deloitte and Oxford University has forecast that one third of UK jobs will be automated by 2030 and that five million white collar jobs, including in accountancy and law, are at risk....

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Small Infrastructure Improvements That Can Make a Big Difference at Work

Dragons' Den whizz-kid aquires Bargain Parking

Voting now open for Exeter BID

Exeter managing partner re-appointed

Exeter players join local business chiefs

PCE moves to new premises in Exeter

Chiefs insight at business breakfast

Devon women excel at business awards

£10m investment paying off for holiday park

UK-first renewable heat network demonstration secures research funding

Embrace chaos in business

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