An expanding website design company is putting the finishing touches to a unique and advanced web application which could revolutionise booking and management tasks – ensuring company time is used effectively with no clashes in schedules.
Two Superior, based at Plymouth Science Park, is currently expanding its premises and is also increasing its staff numbers to meet the growing demand for its services.
The team ‘tailor make’ websites to the exacting specifications of the client so creating unique and stunning sites. They are currently working on a flexible online booking...
Leading chartered accountants and business advisers PKF Francis Clark have announced that they are relocating their Exeter operation to larger premises in November.
160 staff members will move to Peninsula Business Park, Exeter, just a stone’s throw from the firm’s current premises at Vantage Point on Pynes Hill. The new office building will be renamed from Argal House to Centenary House.
The move has been prompted by year on year growth for the UK Top 20 accountancy firm which now has 8 offices across the South and South West of England of which Exeter is the largest. In...
How often do you look strategically at your business?
Many people don’t look at their business strategically often enough. By becoming too engaged in the detail they use common and normally financial metrics to measure progress and success. The end of the year offers an excellent opportunity to intelligently review how far you have come and what you will need to change to achieve the outcome that you want. This may mean looking at your business completely differently....
Leaders throughout the world of business will be able to recall numerous times where teams of strong individuals have struggled to pull together in synergy.
Company politics, internal competition, disagreements, things left unsaid, or things that should have been left unsaid – whatever reasons apply, there is undoubtedly a large amount of untapped potential in teams in the business environment.
Patrick Lencioni, author of “The Advantage: Why Organisational Health Trumps everything else in business” sums this up succinctly.
Resilience is the ability to cope with and rise to the inevitable challenges, problems and setbacks we meet in life, bouncing back quickly and stronger from them.
We can’t always control what happens to us and around us. The good news is that success is so much more than what happens to us, it’s how we respond that makes the difference.
In our agile, fast-moving business world, we need to be constantly on our game:
Customers demand more and competitors are ready to step in if we fall short.
Businesses and people need to keep moving, adapting and
Peak Performance, a popular Exeter gym that promises to help members improve their fitness and health, is undergoing a transformation of its own with investment of £50,000 under the management of new co-owners, Simon Almond and Mat Williams. The pair are carrying out a programme of dramatic improvements to the gym’s services and facilities to reward existing members and to attract new clients to its friendly community on Marsh Barton Trading Estate.
Work is already underway to redecorate the interior of Peak Performance, giving it a clean, fresh and updated look. Investment in the...
A new business support programme has been launched, offering a range of business support services to small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in Devon, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay.
More than 4,000 businesses will be supported with a three-hour business diagnostic check through the Heart of the South West Growth Support Programme. The three-year scheme provides free access to one-to-one business support, as well as a series of events and workshops. Businesses just need to register online at http://www.heartofswgrowthhub.co.uk/gsp-apply/ to trigger an initial face to face meeting...
At the 2017 Business Awards run by 373 Group, The Cricket Company were nominated in two categories - Best Retail and Best Customer Service.
Attending the Awards ceremony on Thursday, the team discovered they were named in the top three companies for Best Customer Service.
Owner Trevor Griffin said “I’m hugely proud of the team – customer service is at the heart of all we do and something we work really hard on, so to be named in top three companies is a great accolade.”
Later in the evening, TCC added to their achievement by being named as winners in the Best Retail...
A Devon mum has told how she is now earning money from selling the award-winning products she has been using for the past 20 years ... from home!
Elle Thomas has launched a new business, working as an independent consultant for Neal’s Yard Remedies Organic, a world leader in organic beauty and wellbeing.
And she is encouraging others to join her expanding team (see below for contact information).
Having been a NYR Organic customer for nearly 20 years, a chance to join the company she loves and work when it suits her and earn great money, was a chance Elle wasn't...
Exeter-based waste management company Devon Contract Waste is celebrating the launch of its new £1.2 million Distribution Hub on Matford Business Park.
The construction of the 1.2 acre facility has been supported by the South West Growth Fund with a grant of £80,000, and ensures the company continues to drive its market leading position as the only provider of Zero to Landfill services in the South West.
Devon Contract Waste’s previous facility on Marsh Barton Trading Estate was destroyed by a devastating fire in March this year. The new Distribution Hub is equipped with...
