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Carparison appoints David Bates as Head of Procurement

The newly created senior role reflects Carparison's growing commercial reach across the UK's leasing, manufacturer, and funder landscape

Carparison, one of the UK's leading car leasing brokers, has appointed David Bates as Head of Procurement — a new position that formalises the business's strategic approach to OEM relationships, funder partnerships, and dealer engagement.

Bates joins with significant experience across the automotive and leasing sector, including a senior tenure at Leasys, where he built a reputation across the industry for commercial judgement and...

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Retirees reluctant to rest up

Baby Boomers’ work is never quite done as many continue to bolster businesses, charities and their families when they retire, according to new research from wealth manager Brewin Dolphin. A survey of almost 2,000 people aged over 50 shows that while one in five (22%) are still working full-time in their primary career, the vast majority (71%) have either retired or part-retired and are making the most of later life. In fact, more than half of people (55%) polled said they gave up full-time work earlier than expected and retired at 57 years old on average. A lucky one in 10 was able to...

JMC Recruitment sign sole supplier agreement with Storm Aviation

Aviation recruitment specialists, JMC Recruitment Solutions , have signed a long-term contract to act as the sole manpower supplier to Storm Aviation.

This partnership marks the latest in a string of notable new customer signings for the Exeter-based firm, who this year celebrate their 10th anniversary. This partnership will see JMC Recruitment Solutions providing permanent, fixed-term and contract recruitment support to Storm Aviation’s global operations.

Founded in 1996, Storm Aviation is a European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) approved maintenance and training...

Police appeal after attempted armed robbery at Exminster petrol station

Police are appealing for witnesses following an attempted robbery which happened on Sunday 4 March 2018 at an Exminster filling station.

The incident happened around 6.40pm at Matford filling station on Dawlish Road on the A379 in Exminster.

DC Joanne Sargent said: “A man entered the station armed with a metal object. He demanded money from the shop assistant but left on foot when the assistant refused to hand anything over.

“The man is described as white, of a heavy build with black eyebrows, and was wearing a navy/dark blue jacket. He had his face covered by a...

Chiefs side to face Newcastle Falcons

As Exeter Chiefs chase a fourth successive appearance in the Anglo-Welsh Cup final, skills coach Ricky Pellow insists lessons have been learnt from past experiences within the competition.

Despite reaching the past three finals, the Chiefs have lifted the trophy just once, that was back in 2014 against Northampton Saints, and have since narrowly lost to Saracens and Leicester Tigers in the subsequent years.

It’s a statistic Pellow and his players are keen to balance up this year, but overcoming visiting Newcastle Falcons on Sunday at Sandy Park (1pm) will be no easy task...

Line-up for Devon Business Growth Day announced

More than 150 companies from across Devon are expected to attend a special business day focused on achieving greater growth next month.

The Growth Day run by Fast Track to Growth is being held at Rockbeare Manor near Exeter on Wednesday 18th April.

The day will be packed with business advice, expertise and support with workshops, presentations and 1-1 sessions on topics including social media for growth in 2018, cloud, apps and productivity, useful tax and compliance tips for start-up businesses, GDPR, brand protection, developing a winning culture for growth and being...

Exeter & Heart of Devon Hotels & Restaurants Assoc raise over £1,500 for charity in one evening

Members of the Exeter & Heart of Devon Hotels & Restaurants Association raised over £1,500.00 for Hospitality Action at this year’s annual dinner held at the Deer Park Country House Hotel on Monday 5th March. The funds have been allocated to local heroes taking part in Le Tour de Cuisine 2018, The Cotswold Cycle Challenge on Monday 4th June 2018. Following a luxury four course feast was a raffle featuring some fantastic prizes donated by a selection of Heavenly Devon Hotels and Restaurants, including a night in the stunning Treehouse at Deer Park Country House Hotel, a night at...

PKF Francis Clark back National Apprenticeship Week

PKF Francis Clark is supporting the 11th National Apprenticeship Week #NAW2018, by celebrating their apprentices’ success and encouraging school leavers to consider the apprenticeship route to give their career in accountancy a head start.

With attitudes towards higher education changing, apprenticeships are becoming an increasingly popular career path. Findings from recent research has shown that going to university is no longer necessarily the best choice for everyone and in addition to this, over half of the university students that were surveyed had stated that they do not...

Presenters ‘right on the money’ at timely PKF Francis Clark event

Over 100 business men and women attended the sixth ‘Finance in the South West’ event, which took place on the morning of 21 February 2018, at Exeter Racecourse.

The event was timely, in response to the small business financier’s Liberis research, that recently stated that “small business education is desperately required…on how to navigate the perceived minefield of financial options”.

Hosted by PKF Francis Clark, ‘Finance in the South West’ featured a total of 22 presentations by various sources of funding and/or business support agencies, covering the topics of grant,...

Activity in SW housing market wanes along with stock levels

Activity in the South West’s housing market remained subdued during the month of February as the average stock levels on estate agents’ books in the region hit a near record low, according to the February 2018 RICS UK Residential Market Survey. Despite new buyer enquiries rising modestly during the month of February, with 13% more respondents in the region reporting an increase in demand rather than a fall, new instructions and newly-agreed sales continued to drift lower in February. Alongside ongoing concerns about affordability in some areas of the South West, the lack of properties to...

Flybe announces new aerospace engineering apprenticeship scheme

Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline, has today (7th March 2018) during National Apprenticeship Week, announced its own new aerospace apprenticeship scheme that, starting in September, will place successful graduates in the enviable position of being able to enter the workforce as much sought-after, fully qualified, aircraft fitter/technicians after just four years. ‘Ofsted Outstanding’ Exeter College, Flybe’s long-standing training partner, has been chosen as the preferred knowledge provider to deliver and assess the theoretical elements of the new apprenticeship programme. The 15...

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Carparison appoints David Bates as Head of Procurement

Retirees reluctant to rest up

JMC Recruitment sign sole supplier agreement with Storm Aviation

Police appeal after attempted armed robbery at Exminster petrol station

Chiefs side to face Newcastle Falcons

Line-up for Devon Business Growth Day announced

Exeter & Heart of Devon Hotels & Restaurants Assoc raise over £1,500 for charity in one evening

PKF Francis Clark back National Apprenticeship Week

Presenters ‘right on the money’ at timely PKF Francis Clark event

Activity in SW housing market wanes along with stock levels

Flybe announces new aerospace engineering apprenticeship scheme

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