Business

Award-winning design agency, Drive Creative Studio, has expanded its offering by becoming fully qualified to create websites for global commerce. Digital Director, Simon Farrow, completed a three day Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) course in International Digital Marketing – providing the team with skills to advise and create websites optimised for an international audience. Drive Creative Studio is one of a select handful of suppliers accredited and recommended by the UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) to carry out this kind of work. Simon comments, “We are thrilled to have been given...

Fast-growing Exeter firm, Astley Media has won the contract to provide PR and marketing support for the new Queen Street dining quarter.

The business was selected from a local shortlist by the developers and site owners Aviva Investors.

This is the latest of a number of major contracts the firm has secured in the past six months.

Other clients include EDF Energy, Stagecoach South West and East Midlands and the Mercure Exeter Southgate Hotel.

Astley Media will provide local PR and marketing expertise for the Queen Street development team and the new...

Two years of hard work and perseverance has finally paid off for trainee solicitor Phil Kay who qualified as a solicitor with Veitch Penny last month.

The journey to solicitor was a particularly tough one for Phil who made the unusual and brave decision to simultaneously complete his Legal Practice Course (LPC) whilst undertaking his two-year training contract. This meant working full-time at Veitch Penny and studying in the evenings and at weekends.

Phil officially qualified as a solicitor on 15 January. He will continue to work in Veitch Penny’s Crediton office where he...

Crowdcube, the world’s largest equity crowdfunding platform, has continued the strategic expansion of its senior team with the appointment of Dean Mayer as Head of Debt and Stuart Nicol as Growth Director.

Dean will develop Crowdcube’s new debt business, including its increasingly popular mini-bond offering. Stuart will lead the growth of Crowdcube through initiatives that include attracting more institutional and public funds to invest in businesses alongside the crowd. Stuart's new role sees him moving from being a Non-Executive to an Executive Director on the Board.

Dean...