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A marketing apprentice with one of the region’s leading housebuilders has earned promotion – just months after starting his new role.

Barney Munn, who was appointed as Barratt Developments’ first marketing apprentice in Exeter, has been promoted to apprentice marketing executive by the five star housebuilder.

Barney joined the Exeter-based team, which looks after Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes, in the region last year and has now been given more responsibility, something he said he was excited about.

“I’ve really enjoyed working as marketing apprentice with...

When starting out, a huge percentage of business owners will not put into consideration, during their preliminary planning and setting up of the business, a functional business number. Having a business number has a lot of benefits which would help your company grow.

Those people, who use personal or private lines for their businesses, will soon get caught up and start regretting why they did not get a business number from the word go. With the introduction of mobile phones, the traditional 9 to 5 working hours is slowly becoming extinct.

This is because people might be...

Technology continues to revamp the way we make purchases every day. We've moved from an old-fashioned system of bartering and trading through exchanging cash for goods in a brick-and-mortar store, to an ecommerce system that can deliver just about anything to your doorstep in a day or two. During each stage, marketing professionals have faced the same challenge: how to promote the right product to the right person at the right time. The goal is always how to generate the most sales at the lowest cost per sale. Today, having an omnichannel marketing strategy can help propel your business to...

A determined buyer travelled from North West Germany to Honiton to secure his bid on the 19th century portrait of a Prussian Grand Duke.

Dr Johann van Lengerich learned of the sale of the portrait at Chilcotts Auctioneers from the internet and was so keen to purchase it that he made the journey on the day of the auction together with his young son.

It transpired that his wife and son are direct descendants of the Grand Duke. The family had previously tried to buy the painting when it was auctioned at Christies but on that occasion, they were unsuccessful. Instead, the Grand...