Leading South West independent waste management company DCW has launched a range of outdoor furniture made entirely from waste plastic collected from businesses across the region.
DCW has invested over £25,000 in a new plastic reprocessing line to become the only company in the South West to process waste plastics it collects into recycled furniture. The new equipment, based at the specialist plastic reprocessing plant in Exeter, DCW Polymers, melts the shredded waste plastic and moulds it into posts and planks which are then used to make weatherproof furniture and garden products...
Law firm Browne Jacobson, which has an office in Exeter, has announced its financial results for 2020/21 with turnover rising 5% to a record £85m for the year ending 30 April 2021. This increase marks a 44% increase in revenues since 2015, when the firm’s turnover was £58.9m.
Key highlights during the year included a series of high profile client wins including, amongst others, Sport England, JD Sports, REAch2 Academy Trust, and GLF Schools and a series of panel appointments and re-appointments including the NHS North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative, Cornwall...
National law firm Browne Jacobson has announced its latest partner, legal director and senior associate promotions which took effect from 1 May 2021. They include:
8 promotions to partner
2 promotions to legal director
19 promotions to senior associate
The promotions run across all five of the firm’s offices with 10 in Birmingham, 1 in Exeter, 3 in London, 1 in Manchester and 14 in Nottingham.
The promotions will bring the total number of partners to 146, legal directors to 13 and senior associates to 112.
We all love a bask in the sun from time to time — especially if it's on a warm beach or in your garden on a summer's day. But when you work outdoors, overly warm weather may not be ideal for your health or for the projects that you're working on.
Knowing how to protect yourself from sun damage is important at any time of year. Not only can too much time in the sun harm your eyesight and put you at risk of dehydration, but it can also cause severe health problems in the long term, like skin cancer and a suppressed immune system. Heat can affect your work area too, for example by...
An Exeter-based company with over 25 years in oilfield innovation has been honoured with the highest accolade a business can receive – The Queen’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade.
A world leading designer and manufacturer of products for the upstream oil and gas industry, AnTech, which has its headquarters in Exeter and a presence in Texas and Saudi Arabia, is one of just 205 organisations nationally to be recognised with a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise, and is in fact the only company in Exeter to receive one.
Multinational manufacturer of defence products MBDA has instructed Exeter based Workplace Innovation Europe Limited (WIE) to deliver its Workplace Innovation Practitioner Programme to twelve of its Innovation Champions based across Europe.
Based on learning by doing rather than teaching abstract principles, the ILM-accredited Leadership Development Programmes provide participants with the knowledge, skills and confidence, together with practical support and mentoring, to deliver real change in their organisations. Each Programme is based around a flexible combination of e-...
Students selected to share their views on climate change for Good Energy
An Exeter School pupil has been selected from almost 1,000 applicants to sit on the Good Future board of a British renewable energy company.
Year 8 pupil Jack is one of six young people selected to share their views on climate change for Good Energy, the UK’s first renewable electricity supplier.
The board is made of up of six secondary school-aged students who will feed into how Good Energy is run and make sure the voices of tomorrow’s leaders are heard.
The East Devon District Council #StayLocalShopSafe campaign aims to encourage East Devon residents to rediscover the high street and support local businesses, now that lockdown restrictions are lifted.
East Devon District Council (EDDC) has received an allocation of £130,992 of funding from the European Regional Development Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020 to support the safe reopening of High Streets and town centres.
The ‘Reopening High Streets Safely' fund allows EDDC to put in place additional measures across...
SME manufacturers in Devon urged to take part in survey
The largest survey of small to medium-sized (SME) manufacturing companies in Devon has been launched today to record trends in performance and confidence levels across the sector, whilst also exploring how firms are supporting their staff as a result of COVID-19.
The Manufacturing Barometer, which is organised by SWMAS (the South West Manufacturing Advisory Service) and the Manufacturing Growth Programme (MGP), is looking to understand how the pandemic has accelerated new working practices that may have unearthed potential...
Gallagher today announces the appointment of two new managing directors in the insurance broker’s Exeter and Torquay offices.
Cheryl Phillips has been appointed Managing Director for Gallagher’s Exeter office. In her new role, Cheryl will be responsible for heading up Gallagher’s 50-strong team, which looks after insurance and risk management for businesses of all sizes across the region, from SMEs through to large corporate organisations, as well as operating a dedicated regional claims hub. Gallagher’s Exeter office has been based at Milford House on Pynes Hill since 2020, when...
