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Zeal appoints sustainable development lead to drive growth

Zeal Hotels has appointed James Ferdinando as sustainable development lead, as the group expands around the UK.

The newly-created role follows the successful opening of the voco Zeal Exeter Science Park , IHG’s first branded net zero carbon hotel.

The hotel has the target of being the first in Western Europe to achieve a BREEAM Outstanding rating in recognition of its sustainable approach to design, construction and overall fit out . It has been designed to operate with industry-leading benchmark-setting Energy Use Intensity levels, a critical measure that ensures the...

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Prestigious planning accolade awarded to Teignbridge

Teignbridge has scooped the top slot for Excellence in Planning Delivery in the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) South West Awards.

Recognised for its work to create Dawlish Countryside Park, Teignbridge turned plans for a 65-acre natural green space into a welcome community facility treasured by local people. The Park provides a natural recreation area for people, reducing pressure and protecting internationally important wildlife sites nearby such as Dawlish Warren National Nature Reserve and the Exe Estuary.

Once the site was secured, it took just over 18 months to...

Exeter businesses donate hundreds of items to support city's foodbank at Christmas

Over 500 items of food have been donated by Exeter businesses to support local families this Christmas. The generous companies made the donations in aid of the Exeter Foodbank at an event staged by NatWest at the city’s Cookery School recently. Last year more than 5,500 people, including 1,610 children, needed to use the foodbank, which was launched in 2008 to help people affected by financial crisis. In just two years the average number of people using the service each week has doubled to 180 and staff say this likely to increase to over 200 in 2019. Over 100 companies attended the event...

Blue Chip Holidays wins prestigious British Travel Award for third consecutive year

Exeter based company, Blue Chip Holidays has been announced as the winner of Best Medium UK Self Catering / Cottage Holiday Company, winning gold in its category in the prestigious 2018 British Travel Awards for the third year running. The announcement was made on 28 November at a glamorous Gala Awards ceremony, held in London and attended by more than 800 travel industry people. Based in Exeter, Blue Chip Holidays is renowned for its premium self-catering holiday portfolio in the South West, Blue Chip Holidays provides guests with over 1,200 premium houses, cottages, lodges and apartments...

GripHero releases cut-price recycling bins to reduce plastic waste on forecourts

Following hot on the heels of the national launch of GripHero’s revolutionary new fuel-nozzle mounted hand-protection dispenser to hundreds of forecourts across the UK and Ireland, GripHero is releasing a new range of bold and brightly coloured plastic recycling bins to help complete the recycling circle.

The bright pink bins are being made available to help an increasingly plastic-aware public dispose of GripHero’s anti-static, fully recyclable hand-protection, as well as other plastic. They provide a striking and simple recycling solution – avoiding the need to separate...

Seaton Wetlands scoops bronze at Devon Tourism Awards

One of East Devon District Council’s most popular nature reserves, Seaton Wetlands, has earned well deserved recognition as one of Devon’s top tourist attractions, by winning a Bronze award at the prestigious Devon Tourism Awards, held at Highbullen Hotel Golf & Country Club in North Devon.

Seaton Wetlands picked up its Bronze award in the Small Attraction of the Year category, alongside fellow Bronze winner Torre Abbey Museum, while Quince Honey Farm won Silver and Stuart Line Cruises were awarded Gold.

‘’Everyone at East Devon District Council is delighted that Seaton...

Why you should use an inventory management system to store goods

There was a time when day to day business operations had to be taken into account manually. This did not only increase the workload but also the chances of errors that would lead to business loss.

Today, thanks to the advancements in the IT and technology sector, most of the business operations can be done automatically and with the help of software. This includes inventory storage.

An inventory management system can be of great help in this regard. It lets you manage the entire inventory with great ease by dividing goods in the form of categories, type, size, etc.

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Harmonic patterns in the currency markets

Harmonic trading focuses on price patterns to help traders enter and close trades. Harmonic price patterns make the use of geometric price patterns. They nevertheless make the process much more detailed since they utilize Fibonacci numbers . This results in accurate turning points. The goal of harmonic trading is to preempt future market movements. Traders who are able to forecast the trends of prices are at a much better position when it comes to profitability. But how exactly do harmonic price patterns help traders in the currency market ? We will take a look at some common patterns as...

Growing the passion with 'World's Best' food and drink heroes

Devon foodies gathered in the Darts Farm restaurant for the annual Darts Farm Food Heroes dinner this month. Hosted by the three Dart brothers, Michael, James and Paul, this sell out event honoured Devon’s local food and drink heroes and continued Darts Farms 25th year celebrations.

James Dart comments: “We’re fortunate to be surrounded by some of the world’s best food and drink producers, our Food Heroes Dinner is the ideal time to celebrate the seasonal produce they offer. Devon’s geography is perfect for food production; not just the landscape, but the soil and the coastline.”...

Silicon Technology Company Wins National Award

Plymouth-based technology company, Moortec Semiconductor, have been announced as winners of the prestigious Techworks Emerging Technology Company Award. Moortec, who license in-chip monitoring technology to many Silicon-Valley companies, accepted the award last week in London.

Accepted by Moortec CEO Stephen Crosher and VP of Marketing Ramsay Allen, the award honours growing companies showing excellent progress and demonstrating impressive growth in areas such as revenue, headcount, innovation, investment and/or market traction as success indicators. The awards celebrate the year’s...

Shoplifters warned in the run-up to Christmas

Measures to combat festive shoplifting in Exeter have been revealed.

Instead of waiting for criminals to steal, Exeter Businesses Against Crime (EBAC) are taking a proactive approach by letting thieves know ‘We’re Watching you’, through a number of eye-catching posters going up around the city.

The message is clear ‘if you commit a theft, we are going to tell all our members – the shops and businesses - about you - don’t do it!’

EBAC works very closely with Exeter City Council’s CCTV Control Room and the Police. All members and the Police are connected via a radio...

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Zeal appoints sustainable development lead to drive growth

Prestigious planning accolade awarded to Teignbridge

Exeter businesses donate hundreds of items to support city's foodbank at Christmas

Blue Chip Holidays wins prestigious British Travel Award for third consecutive year

GripHero releases cut-price recycling bins to reduce plastic waste on forecourts

Seaton Wetlands scoops bronze at Devon Tourism Awards

Why you should use an inventory management system to store goods

Harmonic patterns in the currency markets

Growing the passion with 'World's Best' food and drink heroes

Silicon Technology Company Wins National Award

Shoplifters warned in the run-up to Christmas

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