For many businesses, the new year offers the perfect opportunity to address their business model, and consider areas for improvement. It can be difficult depending on the size of your business and the budget you have to know exactly how to improve your business, but below you can find some suggestions that could see you take your business to new heights.

Reassess Your Business Goals

Having defined goals and a strategic plan in place is the bread and butter of business, however over time, it can be easy for your business goals to grow tired, and for your strategy to become...

Landmark Information Group, the UK’s leading provider of land and property search information, today announces the appointment of Simon Brown as its new Chief Executive Officer and Stephen Stout as its new Executive Chairman. The appointment comes as current CEO Mark Milner takes on the newly created role of Senior Adviser to DMGT to identify and develop next generation opportunities in the property space. Simon Brown is a talented leader, with a proven track record across multiple technologies and disciplines. In his previous roles, in both large corporates and small VC-backed...

Defra announces 2018 bathing water quality results – East Devon District Council beaches all classed as ‘Excellent’ for the second year running!

Once again, the bathing waters of all East Devon District Council-owned beaches have been classed as 'Excellent' following stringent testing by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

The announcement of the 2018 bathing water quality results, which was made by Defra, revealed that all six of the district’s beaches received an ‘Excellent’ classification – which is the highest and cleanest class. The...

Over recent years, Exeter has steadily built up a solid reputation as an entrepreneurial hotspot for those who want to cut the shackles of paid employment and strike out on their own . Most people go into a new business venture with realistic expectations knowing it will take drive, determination and great planning skills to successfully get their new startup off the ground.

However, as any airline pilot will tell you, taking off is one thing, staying airborne still requires focus and attention from the cockpit. Like any newborn, a business is at its most vulnerable during the...

Child cruelty and neglect offences in the UK have doubled over the last five years, the NSPCC has revealed. There were 16,939 child cruelty and neglect offences recorded by police in 2017/18, up from 7,965 in 2012/13. The rise for the same five-year period is even more dramatic in the South West, where police forces in the region recorded 312 child cruelty and neglect offences in 2012/2013 to 1,618 offences in 2017/18 – a fivefold increase.

Reports to the police included extreme cases of when a parent or carer deliberately neglected, assaulted, abandoned or exposed their child to...

From a macroeconomic point of view, a private investment is the purchase of a capital asset that can produce an income, appreciate in value or both. A capital asset is a property that is not sold easily and it is generally purchased by an investor for profit making. For example, land, buildings, equipment, machinery, etc.

In the world of macroeconomics, investments and savings are not the same. For instance, if you purchase a capital asset, such as a machine or a house without a motive of generating an income, then you're saving but not investing.

What You Should Know...

Libraries Unlimited, the charity that runs Devon Libraries and Torbay Libraries, has appointed Professor William Harvey as Chair of the Board of trustees.

Will, who takes up the role with immediate effect, is Associate Dean of Research & Impact and Professor of Management at the University of Exeter Business School. He conducts research, teaches and consults in the areas of reputation, leadership, talent management and migration and has worked with pharmaceutical, healthcare, energy, local and national government, aviation and food organisations.

During his career he...

Dartmoor National Park has had a golden 2018 with top awards going to a number of Dartmoor based tourism businesses. In an award ceremony held last week Dartmoor National Park Visitor Centres were awarded Gold for the third year, in the 2018 Devon Tourism Awards. The Centres at Princetown, Postbridge and Haytor scooped the Golden Award in the Tourism Information category.

But it wasn’t just the National Park Visitor Centres receiving a golden accolade - it was great night for Dartmoor in general with Bovey Castle, Langstone Manor, Liberty Trails, Unique Devon Tours and the...