City contract cleaning company, Exeter Cleaning has launched a new website aimed at shedding light on its contract cleaning service. The company, based in Broadclyst, made the announcement during popular social media event #DevonHour.
Exeter Cleaning’s new site at http://www.exeterofficecleaning.co.uk will become the hub for the company’s professional specialist services which include offices, medical and food handling businesses.
Speaking about the new site, Exeter Cleaning’s Mark Walker said “Clients tend to like us to work when there is nobody else about, so while there...
High demand for premises from small firms has seen East Devon District Council let all its available business units over the last month.
Four units have been taken up in Axminster at Millwey Rise with the new firms trading including commercial vehicle agents for Italian car manufacturer Piaggio, a fishing bait manufacturer, a caravan refurbishment business and a glazier.
In Seaton a car cleaning and valeting business has moved into the one of the Riverside Workshops whilst in Sidmouth a unit at the Manstone Workshops has just been taken on by a bespoke carpenter and joiner...
Look around you. What do you see? If you were asked to be a witness at a trial, would you be able to remember details and conditions? One of the qualities of successful people in all walks of life is keen observation of things about them. They notice things about people, human nature and the general world around them. Many of us, unfortunately, go through life with our eyes half closed. Perhaps you remember the story of the two streakers who interrupted a New York Yankees baseball game when Yogi Berra was the catcher for the Yankees. In the bottom of the ninth inning, two young people...
Here at The Plum Consultancy, we are big fans of the well known saying, ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’, and our love for visuals has naturally made us fans of the visually driven App Pinterest. Pinterest enables users to search through images (‘Pins’) and collect them by Re-pinning them onto boards, or by Pinning them directly from Pinterest-abled websites when browsing the internet. Whether Pinned directly or Re-pinned, every image on Pinterest links back to the source of the image, driving traffic back to the original website from which it was sourced. Pinterest can also help...
The CBI has raised its growth forecasts for 2013 and 2014 from 1.0% to 1.2%. But the UK's leading business lobbying organisation says the rebalancing away from consumption towards investment and trade is taking longer than expected.
The CBI says it has increased the figure from its May forecast, after a better than expected second quarter and signs of a pick-up in confidence across a broad range of sectors, including services, construction and manufacturing.
In 2014, the CBI expects the economy to gather pace, forecasting 2.3% GDP growth up from 2.0% in May, as disposable...
70 decision makers from the local business community attended the summer Business Networking (SW) lunch held at Sandy Park, Exeter.
Guests were welcomed with a glass of wine and enjoyed a two-course sit-down lunch followed by a presentation from Spencer B. Hodgetts on Nature’s Brilliance in Business.
There was also a free pre-lunch seminar on ‘Sales through Service’ hosted by Guy Arnold.
Two of the top teams in Devon have joined forces ahead of the new Premiership Rugby season.
Ashfords LLP has signed sponsorship deals with four Exeter Chiefs players as the side gears up for another exciting campaign.
Justin Blanchett, Rob Coote, Sam Blanchett and Henry Slade visited the law firm’s Exeter offices and practised a scrum with partners Stuart Mathews, Tim Heal, Andrew Perkins and Graham Cridland.
Graham said: “It was great to meet the players and talk about the forthcoming season, which we are all incredibly excited about.
South West law firm Ashfords is topping the table for completed deals in the first half of 2013. The firm bucked the trend as the market experienced a year-on-year decline in volumes.
Research by Experian revealed that Ashfords was the most successful law firm in the whole of the South West for completing deals so far this year.
The business has recorded some significant successes in recent months including assisting with a management restructure at Westcountry-based clothing retailer Quba and helping Exeter company Antech, which supplies drilling equipment to the oil and...
The recently opened Radiance MediSpa, based in central Exeter, is opening its doors to local companies to offer complimentary venue hire. This includes a light and airy conference room with the latest technology, which seats up to 80 and is perfect for meetings; presentations and training. Evenings will be available for corporate networking events including bespoke ladies and men only events which can be tailored to the individual company’s requirements.
Owned by dynamic mother and daughter duo, Dr Ros and Katie Debenham the luxurious and spacious 7,300 sq.ft premises has 11...
We are always surprised by the proportion of businesses that don’t open their emails or respond to voicemail or telephone messages on a regular basis and we wonder what level of business is being lost by this apathetic approach? In the last week alone we know of several approaches made to businesses to make enquiries or to place orders for products or services where no-one has responded. Admittedly it’s the start of the holiday period but does that mean that all business grinds to a halt during this time? We regularly hear about how tough it is out there and how many businesses would...
