Exeter-based Devon Contract Waste has secured a new contract worth circa £3,000 per year with Harford Bridge Park Ltd of Tavistock. The innovative waste management company now provides a full Zero to Landfill waste management service for the award-winning camping and touring park set in Dartmoor National Park.
As a holder of the gold standard David Bellamy Conservation Award for 18 years, Harford Bridge Park has a long-running commitment to responsible waste management. Now, with the services of Devon Contract Waste, the family-run business could see up to 98% of its waste diverted...
New data protection regulations have post-Brexit trade implications
In anticipation of the introduction of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations), an EU-wide stricter version of the current Data Protection Act which come into force in May 2018, PKF Francis Clark have got ahead of the game by achieving a Gold Standard IASME accreditation for cyber security the highest of the four levels of accreditation available.
IASME (Information Assurance for Small and Medium sized Enterprises) is one of the 5 accreditation bodies set up by the UK Government to roll out the Cyber...
Networking can help your business flourish. Expo South are experts in organising events and it’s envisaged the team’s new office in Plymouth Science Park will be behind staging some of this year’s best networking exhibitions.
Over the next 12 months, the Event Management team will be expanding their ‘Expo’ brand to cover other parts of the country: from Sheffield and Poole to Cardiff and Taunton.
The company’s winning one-day format provides an exceptionally high level of professionalism in content, layout and variety. Return business stems from the strong range of...
An expanding website design company is putting the finishing touches to a unique and advanced web application which could revolutionise booking and management tasks – ensuring company time is used effectively with no clashes in schedules.
Two Superior, based at Plymouth Science Park, is currently expanding its premises and is also increasing its staff numbers to meet the growing demand for its services.
The team ‘tailor make’ websites to the exacting specifications of the client so creating unique and stunning sites. They are currently working on a flexible online booking...
Leading chartered accountants and business advisers PKF Francis Clark have announced that they are relocating their Exeter operation to larger premises in November.
160 staff members will move to Peninsula Business Park, Exeter, just a stone’s throw from the firm’s current premises at Vantage Point on Pynes Hill. The new office building will be renamed from Argal House to Centenary House.
The move has been prompted by year on year growth for the UK Top 20 accountancy firm which now has 8 offices across the South and South West of England of which Exeter is the largest. In...
How often do you look strategically at your business?
Many people don’t look at their business strategically often enough. By becoming too engaged in the detail they use common and normally financial metrics to measure progress and success. The end of the year offers an excellent opportunity to intelligently review how far you have come and what you will need to change to achieve the outcome that you want. This may mean looking at your business completely differently....
Leaders throughout the world of business will be able to recall numerous times where teams of strong individuals have struggled to pull together in synergy.
Company politics, internal competition, disagreements, things left unsaid, or things that should have been left unsaid – whatever reasons apply, there is undoubtedly a large amount of untapped potential in teams in the business environment.
Patrick Lencioni, author of “The Advantage: Why Organisational Health Trumps everything else in business” sums this up succinctly.
Resilience is the ability to cope with and rise to the inevitable challenges, problems and setbacks we meet in life, bouncing back quickly and stronger from them.
We can’t always control what happens to us and around us. The good news is that success is so much more than what happens to us, it’s how we respond that makes the difference.
In our agile, fast-moving business world, we need to be constantly on our game:
Customers demand more and competitors are ready to step in if we fall short.
Businesses and people need to keep moving, adapting and
Peak Performance, a popular Exeter gym that promises to help members improve their fitness and health, is undergoing a transformation of its own with investment of £50,000 under the management of new co-owners, Simon Almond and Mat Williams. The pair are carrying out a programme of dramatic improvements to the gym’s services and facilities to reward existing members and to attract new clients to its friendly community on Marsh Barton Trading Estate.
Work is already underway to redecorate the interior of Peak Performance, giving it a clean, fresh and updated look. Investment in the...
A new business support programme has been launched, offering a range of business support services to small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in Devon, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay.
More than 4,000 businesses will be supported with a three-hour business diagnostic check through the Heart of the South West Growth Support Programme. The three-year scheme provides free access to one-to-one business support, as well as a series of events and workshops. Businesses just need to register online at http://www.heartofswgrowthhub.co.uk/gsp-apply/ to trigger an initial face to face meeting...
