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SW small business eye share of nation’s £5bn Christmas Spend

Local small businesses across the South West are gearing up to take their share of a much-needed Christmas boost, as new data predicts the UK could spend £5.3 billion with small firms over the festive period, delivering critical end-of-year gains for this vital segment of the economy.

In wider positive economic signs, new data from the Small Business Saturday campaign also found Brits could spend over £23 billion in total across the UK this festive season, representing a nominal 16% year-on-year spending rise.

On average, one fifth of the nation’s seasonal spending pot...

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Advice to plan your journey if travelling near new IKEA store

Road users are being encouraged to plan their journeys into and around Exeter on Thursday 10 May when the new IKEA store opens to the public.

Increased traffic volumes are anticipated on the major routes into the city, especially on the M5 at Junction 30 Sandygate roundabout and the A379 leading to the new store. Additional traffic may potentially lead to disruption and longer than average delays in the area surrounding the new store.

IKEA has contracted a traffic management company to deal with the arrangements and consultation on the plans has taken place with Devon and...

Growing Devon business park shortlisted for prestigious award

Hitchcocks Business Park in Willand, Devon, has been shortlisted for a prestigious award in recognition of its high quality, modern business accommodation and facilities.

The RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) Awards recognise the most inspirational initiatives and developments in land, real estate, construction and infrastructure in the South West region and their impact on local communities. Hitchcocks Business Park has been shortlisted in the commercial category.

The 25 acre business park is situated just off junction 27 of the M5 making it ideally suited...

How to Build a Local Customer Base

Marketing in the twenty-first century has taken a swerve towards the digital, with new agencies popping up to help brands, companies, and businesses maximise their exposure to international customers online. These glamorous new forms of marketing mean little to local businesses that operate in a strict locality and have no aspirations to expand beyond their town, district or county. So if you’re looking to build your local customer base, here’s a mix of traditional and internet-based tips to help you expand your visibility in the local area.

Word of Mouth

There’s nothing...

Unite Your Team - Create Company Culture across Your Virtual Workforce

You got the virtual office up and running, and your employees are stoked that they get to join the remote workforce. The benefit to everyone is they get to work in an environment of their own choosing while producing some of the best work known in the industry. Your employees are happy, happy, and more than pleased with the new office set up that allows them to avoid the hassles of the daily commute, avoid the drama related find a parking space, and avoid the midday drag when sleepiness overcomes productivity. However, while your employees are pleased with the new office set up, you have...

Exeter entrepreneur founds bespoke surfboard company

Duncan Lyster, a fourth year physics student at the University of Exeter, UK, has founded his own hand-crafted, wooden surfboard company.

With help from Think Try Do, a University initiative that helps undergraduates make the connections to found their own start-ups, Duncan Lyster has founded Lyster Surfcraft, creating lightweight wooden surfboards that perform as well as their polyurethane equivalents.

“My dad is a cabinet maker, so while that is a bit different from surfboards, his carpentry skills were a great help when making the first board in my first year of...

Award win for Devonshire Homes’ Cullompton site, Rivel’s Green

The team behind Devonshire Homes’ popular Cullompton development, Rivel’s Green, has scooped a prestigious industry award and is heading to London after coming top in the regional LABC Building Excellence Awards 2018.

Rivel’s Green, a successful new homes development by Devonshire Homes that is nearing completion, faced stiff competition to win the award for Best Social or Affordable New Housing Development in front of an audience of over 350 construction industry professionals. Partnering with GJR Architects, Devonshire Homes have brought 30 affordable homes to the site which sits...

Chiefs side to face Harlequins

Ali Hepher has dismissed talk that Exeter Chiefs will be coasting their way through tomorrow's (Saturday) final round of the Aviva Premiership away to Harlequins at The Stoop (4pm). Having already secured top spot and a home semi-final following their exertions already this season, some observers have muttered that the defending champions may well take the opportunity to rest up and relax ahead of their last four encounter against either Newcastle Falcons or Wasps on May 19. That notion, however, was quickly dispelled by Head Coach Hepher at this week's media briefing, where he in fact...

Barratt in Exeter create the UK’s first ever apprenticeship in marketing

In a UK first, the country’s largest and best-known house builder has created an apprenticeship in marketing at its Exeter division.

Barratt Developments has long appointed apprentices in bricklaying, carpentry and plumbing but this initiative takes apprenticeships in a completely new direction.

Barratt Developments, which includes Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes, has its regional headquarters in Exeter’s Matford Business Park where the marketing apprentice will be based. The apprentice, who will have a salary in the region of £17,000 per annum, will spend four days a...

Solving the Financial Success Puzzle

My Top Ten Business Tips

I regularly get asked what advice I would give to people who have started their own small business so I have put together my top 10 business tips. To be honest, I’ve struggled to keep it to 10 as there are so many things you need to know and get guidance on when you first start – particularly if you’re a one-man or one-woman band

After all we generally start our businesses because of a personal skill or a passion for one thing - whether it be mending pipework or mending dresses – but we don’t come as fully formed business packages with a set of...

Local care home celebrates high scores in recent Your Care Rating survey

Residents at Lucerne House care home in Exeter, are celebrating after it performed strongly in a nationwide survey of care home residents and their family members and friends.

The results, launched today, show Lucerne House was given an Overall Performance Rating (OPR) score of 924 out of 1,000 by residents, an improvement of 31 points from last year, and 865 by their family members and friends, an improvement of 23 on last year.

Now in its sixth year, the Your Care Rating survey is the country’s largest and most authoritative survey of care home residents and now of their...

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SW small business eye share of nation’s £5bn Christmas Spend

Advice to plan your journey if travelling near new IKEA store

Growing Devon business park shortlisted for prestigious award

How to Build a Local Customer Base

Unite Your Team - Create Company Culture across Your Virtual Workforce

Exeter entrepreneur founds bespoke surfboard company

Award win for Devonshire Homes’ Cullompton site, Rivel’s Green

Chiefs side to face Harlequins

Barratt in Exeter create the UK’s first ever apprenticeship in marketing

Solving the Financial Success Puzzle

Local care home celebrates high scores in recent Your Care Rating survey

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