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SW agency Launch strikes gold (and bronze) at the Performance Marketing Awards

Launch has been named as the winner in the Best Performance Marketing Agency category at this year’s annual Performance Marketing Awards .

The awards, celebrating the industry’s first-class campaigns, teams and companies, praised Launch for its innovative Powered by Happiness® philosophy. The foundation of the agency that focuses on perfecting three things simultaneously: powerful client relationships, innovative full-funnel performance marketing, and a psychologically safe culture where people do their best work.

Launch was commended for being a “benchmark for modern...

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Record breaking results for Blue Chip Holidays

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 02/03/2016 - 10:18am

Blue Chip Holidays has announced that 2015 has been its best year of trading to date, with the number of guests up by over 17.6% and revenues up an additional £2.15 million by 14.5% from £15.2 million in 2014. The Devon based UK holiday operator has also started 2016 in its strongest position in its 14-year history with forward bookings for guests arriving in 2016 up by 26.9% and revenues up by 28.8% year on year. Perhaps even more impressive, Blue Chip Holidays has reported a 49.4% increase in bookings arriving in January 2016 compared with the same month in 2015. A notoriously difficult...

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Devon-based agency advances into China

Authored by RH Partners
Posted: Wed, 02/03/2016 - 8:51am

RH Partners, the award-winning advertising and Google Partner Agency has enjoyed a great start to 2016.

The Exeter-based company has partnered with Blue Logic, a Dubai-based data and technology specialist to offer clients a range of media buying services direct into China.

China’s e-commerce market is incredibly lucrative and highly sought after by Western advertisers. The fragmented nature of China’s social media world, coupled with the different search engines often proves an issue for companies trying to engage with Chinese consumers. However, the partnership between RH...

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Exeter Festival of South West Food & Drink returns for 13th year

Exeter’s annual food and drink festival continues to go from strength to strength with tickets for the 13th year selling fast.

Returning to Exeter Castle and Northernhay Gardens from 22-24 April, the Festival attracts more than 100 artisan food and drink producers from the region selling delicious south west meat, cheeses, bread, cider, wine, beer, oils, cakes and much more.

The award winning Festival has been championed by Michael Caines MBE since its launch in 2003 and the Michelin starred chef is as excited as ever about plans for this April.

Michael said: "I am...

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Police appeal after Exeter break-in

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 02/02/2016 - 8:12pm

Police are appealing for witnesses following a break-in at a home at West Clyst near Pinhoe in Exeter.

The offenders smashed a rear French door to get inside the property overnight on Sunday 24 January.

They escaped with a small safe, which was empty, and left the rest of the house untouched.

Police are appealing for witnesses and would like to hear from anyone who saw any suspicious individuals or activity in the area at the time.

They are particularly keen to trace a red van with red roof rails which was seen parked at the address around 8am on Sunday 24...

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Landlord confidence at all-time low

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 02/02/2016 - 12:01pm

Landlords’ confidence in the buy to let (BTL) sector has collapsed to an all-time low and is now ‘worse than levels witnessed during the financial crash’, the CEO of the UK’s largest landlord association will tell leading mortgage professionals today (2nd February 2016).

Richard Lambert, Chief Executive Officer of the National Landlords Association (NLA), will tell delegates at the Building Societies Association’s (BSA) annual meet-up for mortgage professionals that confidence in landlords’ business expectations has tumbled by more than a third over the past year – down from 67 per...

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Colin Jackson confirmed for Devon Sports Awards

Celebrated athlete and popular broadcaster, Colin Jackson CBE, has been confirmed as the guest speaker at this year’s Devon Sports Awards.

Colin is regarded as one of the greatest athletes in the history of British Athletics, ranking in the top ten hurdlers in the world for two decades and retaining the 110m record for thirteen years. Since retiring in 2002, Colin has become a popular broadcaster, particularly as part of the BBC Athletics team. Colin was also a finalist in Strictly Come Dancing in 2005.

Chairman of the Exeter Foundation, Tony Rowe OBE, said: “We’re...

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Devon war memorials to be listed

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 02/02/2016 - 11:10am

Devon war memorials are among hundreds to be listed over the last year through Historic England’s pledge to protect 2,500 memorials by 2018, marking the centenary of the First World War.

  • Sidmouth War Memorial, Church Lane, Sidmouth http://bit.ly/1nYOu8u
  • War Memorial in the Churchyard of the Church of St John the Evangelist, Bovey Tracey http://bit.ly/202EPtl
  • Newton Abbot War Memorial, Queen Street, Newton Abbot http://bit.ly/1nYQ6iC
  • Meavy War Memorial, West Devon http://bit.ly/1nYQD3Z

Built by communities in the years following...

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Finance in the South West event announced

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 02/02/2016 - 10:01am

Francis Clark’s annual Finance in the South West event, now in its 4th year running, will be taking place on Tuesday 23rd February from 08:00 to 14:00 at Exeter Racecourse. The

Seminar brings together specialists representing funding and business support available to businesses in the Heart of the South West LEP area.

This year the keynote speaker will be Radio 4 business and economics journalist Jonty Bloom.

Research has indicated that there is a significant funding gap between funding available from traditional sources of funding and actual business requirements...

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Vote for your recycling hero

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 02/02/2016 - 8:56am

Communities across Devon are being called on to vote for this year’s recycling heroes.

The fourth Recycle Devon Thank You Awards is being held next month, and this year residents can vote online.

Vote for your favourite shortlisted candidate at: http://www.recycledevon.org/have-your-vote up until 8 February.

This year there have been 61 nominations in categories Your Recycling Hero, School Recycling Hero, Community Group recycling hero, Collection Crew/Operative, Recycling Centre Operative staff and Small Business Champion.

These entries have been...

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