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| Blue Click PR, which is based at Brinkworth, has won the coveted Gold Award for the Chartered Institute of Public Relation's PRide awards 2006/2007 for “Small Team/Sole Practitioner of the Year, West of England. |
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| The Axis Copy Centre is a part of a well established family business which specialises in the supply of design, plotting and copying materials and general office stationery. |
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| The YFM Group has announced a further investment in OchreSoft Technologies, a technology business that provides conveyancing workflow software to the legal market. |
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The robust performance of South West small and medium sized businesses in the third quarter of 2006 was surpassed in the final quarter of the year with a broad based rise in SME activity. |
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| TSSI, the security solutions provider that has headquarters at Groundwell, Swindon, has announced that a group of shareholders led by executive chairman Danny Chapchal and non executive director Lord Young of Graffham have completed the acquisition of the company. |
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King Sturge has announced that the former EMI building on Drakes Way, Swindon has been sold to Camden Ventures, one of the UK's largest privately owned motor dealership group. |
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| First time buyers will feel the pinch of interest rate hikes in the coming months but buy-to-let investors will continue to make their mortgage repayments says research conducted by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). |
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| Following on from the letting of Unit 7 Isis Trading Estate to Matchbox Services, King Sturge in Swindon has let a further two units on behalf of Industrious Asset Management. |
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| The Chartered Institute of Building's (CIOB) annual skills shortage survey has revealed that 77 per cent of respondents had problems recruiting during 2006. |
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| Beacon South West, an initiative that is dedicated to identifying and bringing together the region’s most successful companies, is celebrating its second birthday and also having secured another year of funding. |
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| A Wiltshire business is bringing back apprenticeships, seen by the company as crucial to the successful development of British business. |
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| Following an impressive October, the hotel market in Swindon continued its good performance throughout November according to the latest figures from PKF hotel consultancy services.The latest figures show that in comparison to November 2005, |
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| Like for like sales at WH Smith PLC were down six per cent for the seven weeks and the 20 weeks to 20 January 2007, but there was a sharp improvement in profit, |
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| Care home specialists at Withy King Solicitors have successfully sold Ferfoot Care Home in Chippenham to one of the largest privately-owned care home groups in the UK. |
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Construction company Willmott Dixon is set to begin work to build Swindon's new Central Library, having been selected by Swindon Borough Council from a shortlist of six companies. |
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| Food and drink manufacturers in the south-west are being urged not to miss out on an opportunity to gain heavily subsidised training for their female employees.Improve, |
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| Swindon based British Computer Society (BCS) has helped secure the future of Colossus, the world's first digital computer, in its original location at Bletchley Park where it cracked Nazi codes during the World War II and played a key role in the Allied victory. |
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HSBC has kicked off the New Year with the official launch this week of its newly refurbished retail and commercial banking facilities in Swindon Old Town.
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Plans to revitalise Swindon has received a major boost with the appointment of AMEC Developments as the preferred development partner for The Exchange regeneration area.The selection was made by The New Swindon Company (TNSC), along with its partners,
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The former Great Eastern House office building has been sold to Abbey Developments for a new residential scheme of 134 two bedroom flats and nine one bedroom flats.
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The new year has started well for law firm, Thring Townsend, with a resounding acknowledgement from the legal press.The latest publication of leading legal magazine,
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The South West economy performed well in 2006 with employment growth recovering strongly, indicating a steady expansion of jobs, according to a survey from the Royal Bank of Scotland.
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Scott Wilson Group, the international consultancy which has a major office in Swindon, offering integrated professional services in the transportation,
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Following the successful disposal of Suite 23 Cherry Orchard North, Kembrey Park, Whitmarsh Lockhart announced the recent letting of Fairview House to Farleigh Schools on behalf of Tithegrove.The subject property comprised a Grade II listed office building which was finished to a modern office specification.
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The Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce Group is inviting guests to join chief executive Paul Briggs at a business breakfast to be held at the Swindon Marriott on the 19 January 2007.
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In the next issue of Swindon Business News, the new listing of Swindon’s Top 100 Companies will be included, providing details of the chief wealth creators in the increasingly buoyant economy of the town.The listing, published in February each year by Swindon Business News,
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| Swindon Borough Council Planning Committee’s decision to approve a detailed design code for East Wichel has been warmly welcomed by the developers and their project team. |
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Hazard Management Solutions (HMS) have agreed to take 7500 sq ft of new office space at Shrivenham Hundred Business Park, which is currently being fitted out and will be ready for it to occupy by the end of February.
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| Atkins, the largest multidisciplinary consultancy in Europe, has appointed Martin Pease as managing director of its design solutions division in the South West and Wales. |
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| One of Swindon’s most famous and striking modern office buildings has been let to business communications specialist HSM after standing empty for more than three years. Known locally as the Glass Cigar, |
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| On behalf of Marlborough Town Council, Loveday and Loveday has let the former Oxfam unit at 1-2 Kingsbury Street, Marlborough to Helen and Douglas House Charitable Trust.The unit provides approximately 1,130 sq ft overall and was let on a 10 year lease at £17,500 per annum. Underwoods of Northampton advised the tenant.In another deal, Loveday and Loveday, acting on behalf of private clients, has sold The Old Bakehouse, Lydiard Millicent, which comprises a character office building with ample parking offering easy access to Swindon and the M4 Motorway.The property which measures 959 sq ft was purchased by Green Umbrella Sport and Leisure to enable their expansion from offices in the Old Town area of Swindon. |
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| Loveday and Loveday has let Unit 9, at the Blackworth Industrial Estate to Audio MSG.Audio MSG specialises in sound lighting and video systems for events and venues both big and small. |
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| Motorola, which has about 1,000 people working at it’s Groundwell site in Swindon, has won a major contract to upgrade, extend and manage Vodafone’s nationwide GSM network in Turkey. |
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| An historic business park, set in magnificent estate parkland and rolling Wiltshire countryside, is expanding its premises by refurbishing an original building into larger additional office space. |
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| Swindon based Health and Safety Advisory Service (HSAS) has been named as one of the top training providers in the country by the Adult Learning Inspectorate (ALI), |
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| Playforce, the UK’s premier provider of school playground equipment, has won a contract to fit timber trails and activity zones at eight Welsh schools based on the high quality of the products it produces and the service it provides. |
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| A survey published by the Chartered Management Institute reveals that managers in the South West believe 2007 will be a successful year for business.Their optimism comes, despite an increase in the proportion of business leaders in the region predicting rising business costs. |
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| On behalf of Intergraph UK, Whitmarsh Lockhart has let a substantial first floor office suite to one of Swindon’s more progressive IT companies, SI Connect.The offices at Delta 100, Delta Office Park, Swindon are located entirely at first floor level and extend to approximately 5,582 sq ft. A new five-year full repairing term has been agreed. |
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| Developing the region’s research and development base is vital to long term economic success both regionally and nationally, a conference heard recently.Nick Buckland of the South West Science and Industry Council, told delegates at “Making Science Work - Using Knowledge to Grow Business,” that unless we build a strong science base and exploit it, we will fail as a nation. He spoke of the need to drive forward business led research and development as well as encouraging young people to take an interest in science. |
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| Nearly 60 per cent of marketing professionals in Wiltshire and the South West region believe that their businesses will improve over the next 12 months, according to the latest national survey by the influential Chartered Institute of Marketing.One third are forecasting sales growth of up to five per cent although they believe that their targets are very challenging. |
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