Business

Following the highly successful Finance in Cornwall event in 2012, leading chartered accountants and business advisers Francis Clark are holding a further seminar to address the issues facing SMEs across the region and the funding and support streams that are open to them.

The “Finance in the South West” seminar is aimed at owner managers who need clarification of the funding streams available to them and who are looking for a way through what many consider to be a “funding maze”.

Lewis Banfield, a partner at Francis Clark will chair the meeting at Exeter Racecourse in...

Everys Solicitors has appointed a new chief operating officer, commercial director and client services & compliance partner to its management team.

The Devon and Somerset firm, which has nine offices across the two counties, has promoted Claire Lovett to the COO role, appointed Bruce Brooker as commercial director and Stephen Forsey as compliance partner.

Mrs Lovett had been Everys’ resourcing & development manager, responsible for marketing, human resources, facilities and IT, and head of the residential property department ever since she moved to the Exeter office...

The business heavyweights at Francis Clark were joined by another type of heavyweight when a life-sized model gorilla turned up at the accountancy firm’s Torquay offices.

The startling sight of managing partner Les Burnett and Head of Tax Steve Collins with the unique piece of three-dimensional public art can be explained by Francis Clark becoming Gold Sponsors of Paignton Zoo’s Great Gorilla Project.

The project is celebrating the 90th birthday of the region’s largest and best-known zoo, Paignton Zoo Environmental Park, which is a registered charity. It is also raising...

One of Devon’s oldest family businesses has joined forces with the University of Exeter and a world class business school in Switzerland to pioneer a scheme which will benefit hundreds of rural family businesses across Devon and Somerset.

The Family Business Growth Programme, which has been instigated by the family-owned land management business Clinton Devon Estates, will provide other family businesses working in agriculture and rural enterprises with access to over 25 years of family business research and learning from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD...