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Exeter-based law firm achieves record breaking results

Porter Dodson, the South West-based UK Top 200 law firm, has announced a record-breaking year of growth and achievement, increasing revenue to £20.2m, while retaining the highly prestigious Gold Investors In People accreditation for the third successive time.

Across its Exeter, Sherborne, Poundbury, Bridport, Wellington, Taunton, and Yeovil offices, the firm has seen year-on-year growth of 15.5%, leading to a 25.4% leap in net profit.

These impressive results round off a year in which the firm has achieved significant headcount increases, made possible in part by the...

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

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

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...

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

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

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,...

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

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

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

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...

Mears wins Exeter Repairs and Maintenance bid

Mears strengthens position in South-West with Exeter Repairs and Maintenance bid

Mears is pleased to announce that from 01 December 2020, we have been appointed to be Exeter City Council’s partner to deliver the new Integrated Asset Management contract which supersedes the current repairs response and void refurbishment contract.

This will build on the strong relationship we have established over the last 10 years which saw us repair over 6000 properties. As this builds on a fantastic grounding between Mears and the council we are confident that we can get straight down to work to deliver and support the Exeter communities where we are lucky to work.

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More than two-thirds of business leaders will continue to do meetings virtually

According to the Office for National Statistics, as of April 2020, 47 percent of people were working from home, mostly as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Before 2020, many workplaces didn’t allow working from home or even flexible hours, but COVID-19 has forced bosses to reassess their processes.

A survey of business leaders by speakers bureau VBQ Speakers has revealed that 68 percent will continue to hold company-wide meetings, annual general meetings and conferences virtually moving forward.

69 percent claim that virtual conferences are as...

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Exeter-based law firm achieves record breaking results

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

Aria Resorts win award for marketing creativity through the pandemic

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

Exeter agency named best in Europe for Covid response

Expanding award-winning floral academy blooms during Covid-19

Food Drink Devon partners with Devon & Plymouth Chamber of Commerce

SW based legal firm rebrands following lockdown business re-evaluation

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

Mears strengthens position in South-West with Exeter Repairs and Maintenance bid

More than two-thirds of business leaders will continue to do meetings virtually

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