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Devon site manager wins prestigious national award

A Devon site manager is celebrating after receiving a prestigious award for his work at a local housing development.

Chris Spencer, a Site Manager from Devon, received the National House Building Council (NHBC) Pride in the Job Quality Award for excellence in on-site management at David Wilson’s Hampton Mill in Okehampton.

For more than 40 years, the NHBC’s Pride in the Job scheme has been dedicated to recognising the industry’s very best performers and is a prestigious accolade that site managers aspire to achieve.

To receive the award, site managers must score...

Cazoo

Cazoo launches new customer centre in Exeter

Cazoo , the UK’s leading online car retailer, which makes buying a used car as simple and seamless as buying any other product online, has today opened its latest Customer Centre , located at Denbury Court, Marsh Barton, Exeter and marking the eighth location opened by Cazoo since the summer.

The site was formerly occupied by Imperial Cars which was acquired by Cazoo in July and who have since invested £1m into refitting the site, creating 15 new customer-facing and vehicle-servicing jobs. Cazoo has plans to open a further 7 sites across the UK before the end of the year,...

Feritech

Feritech to open major new production facility in 2021

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 11/02/2020 - 9:44pm

Feritech has announced that it is building a new, state of the art facility just outside Falmouth in Cornwall. Covering an area of 3.5 acres, the new site received planning approval this week. It will greatly increase Feritech‘s manufacturing capabilities and the services offered to both local customers and the company’s established global client base.

Founded in 2012, Feritech designs and builds subsea engineering solutions primarily for the marine geotechnical sector. All their products are designed, manufactured and tested at their own facilities. Over 90% of the company’s...

Luminous Show Technology receives lifeline grant from Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 11/02/2020 - 11:53am

Luminous Show Technology is thrilled and relieved to have been awarded a supportive grant package as part of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF) to help them face the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and to ensure they have a sustainable future, the Culture Secretary has announced today.

Luminous Show Technology is one of 588 cultural and creative organisations across the country receiving urgently needed support – with £76 million of investment announced recently. This follows £257 million awarded overall to 1,385 organisations, also from the Culture...

Aria Resorts win award for marketing creativity through the pandemic

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 11/02/2020 - 11:41am

UK holiday company, Aria Resorts, and its Exeter-based Google Advertising agency, Launch Online, has received a European award for its online advertising strategy through the pandemic.

Aria Resorts and Launch Online won the award for Best PPC Campaign (Pay Per Click), specifically for its work to help guide the hospitality business through the turmoil of the pandemic and secure a vital sell-out summer season.

The European Agency Awards were held on October 22, rewarding digital, marketing and advertising agencies across Europe. The judging panel featured leading names in...

Stephens Scown

Another Strong Performance for Leading South West Law Firm in independent legal guide

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 10/30/2020 - 10:38pm

One of the South West’s leading law firms has achieved another strong performance in the latest edition of an independent guide to the legal profession.

Leading South West Law firm, Stephens Scown LLP, which has offices in Truro, St Austell and Exeter, is ranked in 15 sections of Chambers & Partners’ UK 2021 guide, with three teams and five of the firm’s lawyers receiving Band 1 ranking. In addition, the firm’s Managing Partner, Richard Baker, has received the accolade of Eminent Practitioner and Corporate (M&A) lawyer, Giles Dunning, has been recognised as an Up and...

Exeter agency named best in Europe for Covid response

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 10/28/2020 - 12:19pm

Exeter-based online advertising business, Launch Online, has been crowned the top agency in its class at the European Agency Awards 2020 for its work through the pandemic to support South West and UK tourism businesses.

Launch Online won the award for best European PPC Agency (Pay Per Click) and Best PPC Campaign, specifically for its work with UK self-catering business, Aria Resorts, to help guide the hospitality business through the turmoil of the pandemic and secure a vital sell-out summer season.

The European Agency Awards were held on October 22, rewarding digital,...

British Academy of Floral Art

Expanding award-winning floral academy blooms during Covid-19

Business is blooming for independent, award-winning British Academy of Floral Art based in Dunchideock, near Exeter, with internationally renowned co-directors, Julie Collins and Tina Parkes taking on three new tutors and doubling the size of their Devon-based floristry training centre for beginners and professionals.

Fellow master florists Julie and Tina first met whilst teaching at Bicton College in East Devon, before establishing their new joint venture in Woodbury in 2008 and moving to Dunchideock Barton seven years’ ago. The academy offers professional floristry training and...

Food Drink Devon partners with Devon & Plymouth Chamber of Commerce

Authored by kath@raw
Posted: Mon, 10/26/2020 - 3:39pm

Food Drink Devon (FDD), the county’s leading membership organisation in the food and drink industry, is thrilled to announce that it is joining forces with Devon & Plymouth Chamber of Commerce (DPCC) to strengthen their influence in this sector at both a regional and national level.

Barbara King, Chair of Food Drink Devon explains: “As a not-for-profit membership organisation we are always working hard to promote our members and raise Devon’s culinary profile as a whole. DCC is a large, respected and influential organisation providing an important voice for businesses in our...

SW based legal firm rebrands following lockdown business re-evaluation

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 10/23/2020 - 2:46pm

South west based legal firm, Linnitts Solicitors, used the UK Lockdown to reassess who they are as a brand as they look to better portray their offering of being beyond the standard legal services many other contemporaries offer. With all of the doom and gloom we have become accustomed to this year, this rebrand also represents an industry that is holding its own and fighting to stay relevant to the modern day individual, in order to survive whatever the future may hold.

Previously known as Linnitts Solicitors, the rebrand has seen the firm become Beyond Legal, to literally...

Willmott Dixon team on site at Exeter Police Station

Exeter contractor Willmott Dixon pledges to be a net zero carbon business by 2030

Authored by cfrankpitt
Posted: Fri, 10/23/2020 - 1:55pm

Contractor Willmott Dixon, currently delivering several major projects in Exeter, is aiming to lead the construction sector with a series of ambitious commitments set out in its newly released sustainability strategy.

Entitled ‘Now or Never; our decisive decade’, the strategy includes the commitment that Willmott Dixon will become net zero carbon in its operations by 2030, with all new build and refurbishment projects delivered from 2030 also net zero carbon in use. It is also aiming for its supply chain partners to be net zero carbon by 2040; the first UK construction company to...

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