Business

Positions include two Deputy Directors to support with business insights, investment and growth

The Great South West Partnership is looking for two new Deputy Directors to join the Executive team, and an Executive Support Officer to support the Director.

The Great South West is the powerhouse brand for Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and the Isles of Scilly. The Partnership is dedicated to driving investment and spotlighting the region’s world-class industries, businesses, and workforce.

The Deputy Director for Business Insights will shape a dynamic programme of...

Whether your firm is based in Exeter or any other part of the Southwest region, the chances are that the things your company uses, sells, adds value to, remodels or uses in its production processes have at least some Chinese products in them. All too often Exeter-based businesses buy Chinese goods, components or assemblies from UK firms, however. Instead, you could be importing them yourself and cutting out the expenses and delays caused by middlemen. How do you go about starting your own import operation from the Far East?

For UK businesses,...

Zeal Hotels has achieved the BREEAM Outstanding rating at the design stage for its voco Zeal Hotel, located at Exeter Science Park.

The 142-bedroom hotel is currently on schedule in week 26 of a 75-week construction programme.

Tim Wheeldon , Managing Director, Zeal Hotels said: “It’s exciting to see our innovative sustainability principles being recognised. The project focuses on sustainability and will help transform the established hotel construction and operational benchmarks. It is challenging adopting ESG ethics whilst not diminishing the guest experience and we are...

Statista predicts there will be approximately 60 million e-commerce users in 2023. That’s people undertaking digital transactions.

Roughly 70 million people are living in the UK. In other words, the vast majority of British people are already using digital transactions. As a business, you simply can’t afford not to be.

Of course, many options are available and you need to find the best ecommerce solutions . That means, thinking about all potential transactions, not just the most common transactions you undertake.

After all, you don’t want to miss out on a big...