Speaking Success owner, Celia Delaney, is running a series of 6 masterclasses to help ambitious small business owners define their goals and achieve a greater level of business success.
Celia, who is known locally as Regional Partner for the Venus Awards, has also run her own business - Delaney & Hart Ltd - successfully for the last three years.
Responding to demand, she has crafted a Masterclass Series, which will see an exclusive group of local businesses come together to receive insightful business advice and peer support to enable their business to grow.
Women looking to set up a business, or who already run a business and need some extra guidance, can look forward to a day of free advice thanks to the Venus Awards and their sponsors. Friday 6 June will see experts from Venus Awards sponsors NatWest, Stones Solicitors LLP, Bishop Fleming, Sampson Hall and Western Morning News/Express & Echo in Market Square at the Guildhall Shopping Centre in Exeter between 10am and 4pm to provide free advice to women in business. Representatives from the Venus Awards themselves will also be on hand to talk about the awards and to encourage people to...
A leading South West renewable energy installer has strengthened its management team with the appointment of two members of staff to its board.
Exeter-based Fair Energy has promoted former business manager Shirley Hill and finance manager Matthew Laing to board directors.
Matthew, a qualified accountant, joined Fair Energy in 2011 and brings to the role three years’ experience in the renewable energy industry and a further three years’ previous experience in the construction industry. Matthew, who has spent time shadowing various positions learning how each department works...
Exeter-based Shipman Financial Planning is set to become one of the South West’s leading financial and investment specialists following a seven-figure buyout of a Guernsey firm.
The purchase means Shipman, whose Head Office is based in Exeter’s Southernhay quarter, can now offer financial planning and investment services almost unrivalled outside London.
Through its purchase of Oculus Investment Managers, a successful discretionary investment management company, Shipman FP will now be able to benefit from Oculus’ strategic relationship with James Hambro and Partners, which...
Berry Recruitment has seen pre-tax profit rise by 82 per cent to over £1 million, its latest accounts have revealed. The consultancy with 26 branches across the country, including one in Exeter, also recorded a significant rise in turnover to more than £42 million. Its specialist sectors include those of office, industrial, construction and catering – all good indicators of the wider economy. Berry’s figures relate to the year ending 31 December 2013, and show the company is well placed to continue its growth through 2014, in which it hopes to increase turnover to more than £50 million....
The partners of Haines Watts, Exeter celebrate national success as Accountancy Firm of the Year – Small, Medium Size Entities (SMEs), at the annual Financial Directors (FDs) Excellence Awards. This award follows on the back of the Haines Watts group winning Auditor of the Year in the SME category for two consecutive years beating off stiff competition from other leading local firms.
Ben de Cruz, Managing Partner Haines Watts Exeter said: “It’s great to see Haines Watts win such a prestigious award particularly as it is voted for by business people, and not by an academic panel of...
More than 80 people turned out for the latest B2B Breakfast at Sandy Park, which is fast becoming one of Exeter's fastest growing networking opportunities.
Representatives from some of Devon and Cornwall's leading businesses attended the latest event at the rugby club's award-winning ground.
The speakers were Marc Astley (pictured) and Dan Pritchard from marketing and PR firm Astley Media and Keiron Northcott, a trustee of the Chief's charity the Exeter Foundation.
Keiron told the audience about the work of the charity, which raises funds for 20 local charities....
Over 60 independent business owners and retail chain managers attended an event at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum on Thursday 30th April, to learn about a proposed Business Improvement District for Exeter.
The group heard from a variety of speakers representing independent retailers, franchises and national chains operating within the city, including Mattie Richardson, Chairperson of Fore Street Collective and owner of Bunyip Beads and Buttons, David Shawyer, McDonalds Franchisee and Ray Frame, Store Manager of Wilko. Each explained why they would support the introduction of a...
Volunteer business mentors will have helped 1,000 unemployed people across Devon and Cornwall to start their own businesses by this summer, according to Business Information Point (BIP). However, this target can only be reached if more volunteer business mentors step forward.
Since June 2011, 821 unemployed people across Devon and Cornwall have started their own business as part of the New Enterprise Allowance (NEA) scheme and just over half of these (415) were set up in 2013. The national NEA programme, which is funded by the government’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP),...
Chalk & Ward Advertising is celebrated a year in their new building on Southernhay last month. The move from the Quay in March 2013 has proven a very successful one, Managing Director Robert Chalk says;
“It’s hard to believe that we’ve been in Southernhay a year already. Time flies when you’re having fun, or at least when you’re busy! I’d like to think we’ve had a healthy mix of both.
It’s certainly been a crazy 12 months since we moved. We’ve taken on 5 new members of staff and won a staggering 17 new clients, including The Met Office, The Big Cake Show, Bradburys and...
