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Award-winning Exeter-based agency, Absolute PR and Marketing, is celebrating 22 years in business.

Specialising in building brands, profiles and reputations for clients ranging from start-ups to household names, encompassing specialist areas including marine and green tech, fin tech, tourism, transport, property, infrastructure, manufacturing, and the circular economy, the business marked the milestone occasion with a special event for clients, business associates and friends.

Held at Brickhouse Vineyard, near Mamhead, guests came together to toast the landmark...

A new collaboration has been announced between Tech South West and Microsoft in a bid to enhance digital skills in the region.

The project will provide South West tech companies with opportunities to access training for their teams and develop technical skills within their organisations. Support will also be provided for those looking to switch to a career in tech, or grow their tech business via the Tech South West StartUp and ScaleUp Studios.

Research conducted this year by Tech South West revealed that 55% of tech companies in the region cite “lack of candidates” as...

Financial experts Old Mill have appointed highly experienced tax specialist Chris Watts as Associate Director in the Capital Tax Advisory Team.

A qualified member of the Association of Accounting Technicians, Chartered Institute of Taxation and Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, Chris has 26 years’ experience in the industry, with particular expertise in highly complex tax structures and the tax rules around emerging assets.

The 43-year-old started his career in 1996 when he joined PKF-Francis Clark as an apprentice. He worked his way up from tax trainee to Tax...

Employees from an Exeter-based company are taking part in a month-long walkathon to raise money for Brain Tumour Research .

A 25-strong team from Shipman Financial Planning is aiming, with the help of 10 others from parent company Amber River, to walk more than 40,000 kilometres (24,901 miles) throughout September – the equivalent distance of travelling around the world.

The team from Shipman is fundraising for Brain Tumour Research after financial administrative assistant, Louise Pickering lost her mum, Angela Linnell to the disease 26 years ago.

Louise, 45,...