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Simpkins Edwards Managing Partner Mark Simic with new Partner Michael Hesketh

Simpkins Edwards strengthens corporate tax team with new Partner appointment

Leading South West independent accountancy, business and tax advisory firm Simpkins Edwards has strengthened its corporate services team with the appointment of specialist Corporate Tax Partner, Michael Hesketh.

Michael joins the partnership working from the firm’s Exeter and Barnstaple offices. A Chartered Tax Advisor with more than 20 years’ UK tax compliance and advisory experience, he specialises in tax planning for entrepreneurial and owner‑managed businesses. His expertise spans succession and exit planning, transaction tax structuring and M&A support, cross‑border...

GripHero

Devon-based GripHero supplies largest independent forecourt network in Cyprus with protection from contaminants and Covid-19

Devon-based GripHero has expanded its international order book to include Cyprus. Its award-winning dispensers and ATEX-Certified anti-static hand-protection, are set to be installed across 96 EKO Cyprus forecourts accounting for around 30% of all fuel stations on the island, making it the largest independent forecourt network in Cyprus.

Installed to enhance customer safety by minimising the potential transfer of germs, biohazards, chemical or biological contamination, GripHero’s patented dispensers are playing an important role in preventing the transfer of Covid-19 at the fuel...

Devon’s Lightfoot boosts driver safety and fuel efficiency at TP Fire & Security

Chudleigh-based Lightfoot, the award-winning in-cab technology and driver reward platform that’s helping businesses across the UK cut their carbon footprint and fuel bills, has announced that it has helped TP Fire & Security, one of the UK’s leading providers of fire and security protection, to not only eradicate instances of dangerous driving but to cut fuel bills and emissions by almost 10% in the process.

The news follows the successful implementation of Lightfoot’s pioneering driver rewards platform across TP Fire & Safety’s fleet, leading to a 59% uplift in elite...

Employers urged to consider mental health as employees return to the workplace

Managing employees experiencing mental ill-health is one of the biggest challenges employers face and never more so than during the current pandemic which has produced for some employees a perfect storm of isolation from colleagues, family and friends, the pressures of managing home working and worries about the future.

Even before the pandemic, research in 2016 and 2017 found that 1 in 6 employees in the UK reported mental ill-health each week and a third of fit notes with a known diagnosis note mental or behavioural disorders as the reason for absence.

Employers will be...

Welsh fabricator to support construction of Exeter Bus Station

Authored by David Banks
Posted: Mon, 07/20/2020 - 7:51am

CARDIFF-based aluminium fabricator, Dudley’s Aluminium, has started work on a new project to benefit communities in the south west of England.

Dudley’s Aluminium is currently working with Kier on the development of a new bus station in Exeter. The project, valued at £360,000, is part of a much larger regeneration scheme in the city. The wider development scheme, called St Sidwells Point, also includes the construction of a low-carbon, state of the art leisure centre.

The new bus station will replace the current station which opened in 1964 and will include covered...

Software Solved

Exeter-based Software Solved hits £3m turnover

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 07/17/2020 - 12:44pm

Software Solved is proud to announce that it has hit its £3m turnover target under the leadership of Managing Director and STEMM ambassador, Lindsay Lucas, who celebrates one year in the position.

Software Solved is an Exeter business with a UK-wide reach and in the last year Lindsay and the Software Solved team have implemented major changes across the business in order to hit the £3m turnover target.

This included, working to establish the values and purpose of the organisation, re-evaluating services to ensure they remain current, expanding the team and skills across...

James Buckley, RGB, Exeter

Inbetweeners star brings back character for Exeter builders merchant

The Inbetweeners star James Buckley has revived his lovable character Jay Cartwright especially for RGB Building Supplies by voicing the builders merchant’s latest series of radio adverts.

In the adverts Jay is trying his hand as a tradesman and, in typical Jay fashion, there’s plenty of embellished bragging during conversations with his builder ‘fwends’. According to Jay, he got a bargain when he bought a left handed hammer and polystyrene nails from a man on the street, has been asked by the Vatican to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, is taking on the renovation of Big...

South Western Railway on the hunt for the UK’s favourite local businesses for the chance to win a business recovery package worth £12,000 

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 07/16/2020 - 11:26am

Local businesses have been some of the hardest hit by COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdown, and as restrictions begin to ease it is important now more than ever that we all support them. South Western Railway has today launched a campaign to celebrate local businesses across the region, with three tailored business recovery packages up for grabs.

South Western Railway is asking locals to nominate their favourite local business across the South West, to be given the chance to win one of these packages up to the value of £12,000. Whether it’s the village butcher’s, the local...

Thousands to benefit from new fibre broadband connections

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 07/14/2020 - 11:25am

Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) has launched its Fibre Extension Programme which will provide more than 8,000 homes and businesses with fibre broadband connections direct to the premises by the end of 2021.

CDS is funding fibre broadband connections to over 6,000 homes and businesses which will be delivered by Airband, and thanks to the high level of take-up of broadband services in the region from previous connectivity delivered by Openreach, CDS is re-investing a £6 million dividend to extend full fibre coverage to over 2,000 premises, again working with Openreach, thanks...

Guardian Homecare creates 100 new care roles in Devon

Authored by Reporters
Posted: Tue, 07/14/2020 - 10:00am

A LEADING care agency in Devon is looking to fill up to 100 care vacancies in the county this month (July 2020).

Guardian Homecare already has more than 200 trained staff across Devon and operates a professional team of highly-skilled, committed individuals providing top quality care to people in their own homes.

Catherine Porter, Manager of Guardian Homecare, which cares for people in the Exeter and Torbay areas, said: “With all the ongoing news regarding job losses, redundancies and businesses closing, we’re thrilled to be able to offer jobs in care with immediate start...

Exeter site manager recognised with top industry award

Authored by David Banks
Posted: Mon, 07/13/2020 - 2:58pm

An Exeter-based Taylor Wimpey site manager has been recognised for his dedication to quality housebuilding with a top industry award.

Luke Cox, who oversees work at the Mayfield Gardens development in Monkerton, Exeter, has been awarded a National House-Building Council (NHBC) Pride in the Job Quality Award . The awards recognise an individual’s dedication to building high-quality homes and are presented following a rigorous judging process by NHBC inspectors. This includes assessing the developments throughout the year, giving homebuyers the assurance that Taylor Wimpey’s...

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