Are you determined to maximise your organisation’s full potential? Do you often envision yourself rubbing shoulders with the giants in your field? Is reaching the pinnacle of your industry your one and only professional goal? If you’re to achieve these aspirations and reach these lofty heights in your career as a business owner, you’re going to need to fortify your company’s financial foundations. With a strong fiscal footing underpinning your future growth, you will have the robust platform you need to truly scale your market going forward.
Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) has warmly welcomed further investment in broadband in the region as part of the Government’s announcement on Project Gigabit today (Friday 19 March).
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has outlined the phasing of its £5 Billion commitment to delivering next generation broadband in the UK.
CDS is in the vanguard of the Government’s ambitions to build a Gigabit capable network across the entire country through its new contracts with Airband, Truespeed and Wessex Internet, which will install full fibre broadband across...
The coronavirus pandemic has affected every industry, but few have been hit as hard as hospitality. While there are now reasons to be optimistic for later in the year, businesses in these industries are having to find ways to manage in the interim.
A Second Easter Under Restrictions
This is extremely challenging, especially when you consider that there are many events and holidays happening around this time of the year. Hotels and other businesses in this industry thrive on events like Mother’s Day, Easter and Bank Holidays, but now are facing the prospect of missing out...
Software Solved is delighted to announce that it has promoted Martin Lovell to Product and Commercial Director as the company looks forward to another successful year.
The role will see Martin overseeing product development, identifying new market opportunities and bringing a deeper insight in sector shifts to enable the business to adapt to constantly evolving markets.
Martin, who joined Software Solved as Product Manager in March 2020 has a breadth of enterprise-wide experience in both New Zealand and the United States. With this in mind, bringing Martin’s skills and...
The past 12 months have exacted a terrible toll on both our population and our economy – but with vaccine delivery progressing well and a roadmap to reopening now defined, thoughts are rightly turning to recovery. But let’s be clear – recovery has to be about more than regaining lost ground. Instead, we must aim higher.
If the Covid-19 pandemic has delivered one unexpected positive, it has been a chance to reassess. With so much of our traditional activity on hold, we have had an opportunity to take stock, to re-evaluate our future,...
Female-focussed businesses from all across the South West came together to celebrate the passion and enthusiasm of women business owners and entrepreneurs in the region when Britain’s biggest business group staged its first regional ‘Women in Enterprise’ conference.
Taking place in the same week as International Women’s Day, the FSB (Federation of Small Businesses) hosted the virtual event featuring speakers, panel sessions and networking which attracted attendees from Cornwall, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Bath, Devon, Bristol and Somerset.
Residents and businesses are invited to have their say on the draft Resource and Waste Management Strategy for Devon and Torbay.
The Public Consultation runs from Wednesday 3 March to Wednesday 14 April, and the responses will help shape how Local Authority Collected Waste is managed in Devon up to 2030.
The new document will present how the 10 councils responsible for waste collection or disposal in Devon, will continue to work with residents to try to reduce the amount of household waste created and continue to ensure that waste is managed in a sustainable and cost-...
Gregory Distribution (Holdings) Ltd has acquired Pollock (Holding) Ltd and its subsidiaries Pollock (Scotrans) Ltd and Pollock Express Ltd. The business is headquartered in Bathgate, West Lothian, in central Scotland.
Pollock is one of Scotland’s best known brands and like Gregory, is a private family-owned business with a strong reputation for customer service gained over more than 80 years of trading.
With 150 vehicles and 200+ staff, Pollock is a significant addition to the Gregory Group and will operate alongside Gregory Distribution, ARR Craib and its Scottish JV...
Former Kuehne + Nagel senior executives Anthony Quinn and Peter Adams have announced their acquisition of STR Logistics Limited. The acquisition has been made via their holding company 2020 Logistic Solutions Limited and completed on the 26th of February 2021.
UK based STR Logistics (located in Exeter, Devon) has been operating for over twenty years specialising in the provision of transport logistics solutions including, first and last mile, multi-drop, two-man home deliveries, contract management, trunker operations and secure freight handling. The company employs over one...
Exeter-based Workplace Innovation Europe CLG (WIE) has joined a partnership of organisations in a project to enhance the concept of ‘Decent Work’ in Lithuania.
WIE is a not-for-profit organisation collaborating with public and private sector enterprises, trade unions and policymakers to explore the future of work and organisations and to share good practice in the workplace.
The Lithuanian initiative is funded by Innovation Norway, the state development agency, as part of its programme aimed at reducing economic and social disparities in the European Economic Area. In...
