Today's South West business news from Insider |
Latest News | A Highbridge-based bathroom pod manufacturer has reported a 73 per cent increase in pre-tax profits in its latest accounts. Read More… |
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Ian Caveney, head of Tech for Good at BT, offers insight into the Green Tech Innovation platform and BT's net-zero climate strategy. Read More… |
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An Exeter-based provider of sales and lead management software for car dealerships has been snapped up by CitNOW, a portfolio company of private equity firm Tenzing. Read More… |
Lawyers from Clarke Willmott have advised on the sale of £60-turnover home delivery firm Panther Logistics. Read More… |
Capita has agreed to sell its Education Software Solutions (ESS) business to a company established by Montagu Private Equity. The deal values ESS at up to £400m. Read More… |
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Dewi Hughes, head of LDC for the South West & Wales, says the impact of technology on our lives has never been more apparent. There's little argument that the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated its role in almost every sector, and we're now more reliant on technology than we've ever been before. Read More… |
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A naval architect has partnered with laser scanning company in a new joint venture. Read More… |
Pre-tax profits have surged at storage provider and site accommodation hire specialist Mobile Mini, newly filed financial results have revealed. Read More… |
Tourism to Britain is forecast to jump by more than 70 per cent in 2021, according to new figures. However, the total is expected to still be less than half of 2019's level. Read More… |
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Back at the start of 2020, none of us could have known that we were about to be plunged into a once-in-a-generation event that would radically change the way we live and work. Graham Randall, managing director, restructuring and insolvency, Quantuma, looks back at an unprecedented year that has seen thousands of businesses closing their doors for good, some fighting for their survival, and others benefiting from the perfect storm of conditions created by the virus. Read More… |
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Plans for the redevelopment of a major brownfield plot in Bedminster to provide a student accommodation scheme have been submitted. Read More… |
Fourth generation regional building contractor EJ Carter & Co has constructed visitor rooms at 17 care homes ready for family and friends to visit over Christmas. Read More… |
Online estate agency Purplebricks generated a pre-tax profit in the first half of its financial year, despite the impact of Covid-19 on the housing market. Read More… |
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Claire Arbery, director at West of England Institute of Technology, says one of the most interesting (and challenging) discussions she had had since the start of the journey to create the West of England Institute of Technology (WEIoT) has been the discussion between high tech and digital – and what do we actually mean when we talk about these. Read More… |
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The new owners of The Natural Fibre Company and Blacker Yarns, a specialist woollen mill in Cornwall, have hailed a successful first year despite the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Read More… |
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Member Exclusive News | A Leeds-based healthcare technology business has deployed its software across Somerset NHS Foundation Trust (Somerset FT). Read More… |
The acquisition of an commercial law firm by listed counterpart Knights has completed. Read More… |
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