Northcott Beaton Insurance Brokers have been trading in Heavitree’s Fore Street for over 20 years. Set up by Keiron Northcott and Nick Beaton, originally they specialised in personal lines insurance (your house, your car, travel etc) but as time passed and with the abundance of insurance companies progressing to an online presence, Northcott Beaton diversified and can now claim to be one of the largest and “most loved” commercial insurance brokers in Devon and the region. They still maintain their range of personal lines although this accounts for only 15% of their business.
Over 70 decision makers from the local business community attended the autumn Business Networking (SW) lunch held at The Lord Haldon Hotel, Dunchideock. Guests were welcomed with a glass of wine and enjoyed a two-course sit-down lunch followed by a presentation from Chris Wood of Q Social Media Limited. There was also a free pre-lunch seminar on The Courts System hosted by Richard Blair, Partner at WBW Solicitors, Exeter.
A dedicated website has been launched to support a campaign to attract businesses to Devon.
Devon Delivers is aiming to encourage companies to move to the county to be part of the next chapter of Devon’s economic success story.
Following on from last year’s awareness raising campaign, Devon County Council has developed the new website for Devon Delivers, www.investdevon.co.uk , designed to make relocation as straight-forward as possible. A relocation manager will also be on hand with advice, information and access to valuable business connections.
On the 27th September the annual Northcott Beaton Insurance Brokers Golf Day took place at Woodbury Park. This year the chosen charity for the event was The Exeter Foundation. The main aim to the Exeter Foundation is to provide the City of Exeter and its surrounding areas (The Greater Exeter) with a ‘Civic Trust’ that will promote our community and pursue the vision of people who live and work there. The Foundation will act as a fundraising body with a commitment to the future prosperity of Greater Exeter, and also as a vehicle for promoting collective civic pride. The Exeter Foundation...
The "Camera skills, lighting and sound" workshop is designed to help you get the most out of your video equipment to create good looking and good sounding business videos. This session includes advice and demonstrations suitable for dedicated video cameras and mobile devices.
As large businesses start to implement their auto-enrolment pensions from 1 October, NFU Mutual, a provider of pensions and investments, is urging smaller business owners in the South West to start making plans for their own workplace pension schemes.
Steve Meredith, pensions spokesperson for leading rural insurer NFU Mutual, said: “A lot of people running small and medium businesses might think they don’t need to be concerned about auto enrolment and workplace pensions. But they only have to have one eligible employee to be affected.
I knew Jay and Will Allan, brothers and partners in speciality food business Hillside as they grew up in Exeter, and have watched the progress of their company with admiration. Established in 2009 the business has grown from supplying local restaurants and farm shops in its early days to supplying the hospitality areas at the London Olympics this summer.
In their formative years Will and Jay spent time at their grandparents’ Somerset smallholding and remember with pleasure harvesting produce from the farm and helping their grandmother create wonderful home-cooked dishes....
The inaugural Business Expo ‘Business Gives Back’ held at Exeter Racecourse in aid of Devon Air Ambulance Trust (DAAT) during ‘National Air Ambulance Week’ is confirmed as a resounding success by organisers, thebestofexeter.
More than 400 delegates had the opportunity to visit local business exhibition stands and seminars presented by key-note speakers chaired by Derek Philips, with one-to-one business clinics in The Business Advice Centre. The day kicked-off with an early morning Big Breakfast chaired by Nick Agg-Manning, while Exeter Chamber of Commerce hosted a...
He may have felt the heat in the Dragons' Den but 26 year old Matthew Conridge has turned £600 into a major business. Matthew has two companies. Mamka, an online retailer of outdoor gear and Creba a catering business. Fours years ago at the age of 22 Matthew founded Mamka which is made up of two online retail stores, Outdoor Leisure Direct and Togga, which sell products such ranging from wetsuits & inflatable pools to camping equipment. When he first started Mamka Matthew couldn’t catch a break, failing to raise any type of finance from banks, investors even family and friends....
