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With Swindon’s new Science Festival, Tomorrow, coming to the STEAM museum on February 21-22, organiser Dr Rod Hebden argues that Swindon and Wiltshire is the new science and tech hub.
Our hard-pressed independent High Street retailers in Gloucestershire can look forward to a little New Year cheer. Just before Christmas, in the Queen’s Speech, the government decided they must...
As we approach 2020, I am enthusiastic about the development of a great new focus for business in the region. In Katherine Bennett, senior vice president of Airbus in Bristol, we have a formidable...
Democracy is all very well, but sometimes it produces results which quite honestly give people in business a bit of a headache. It’s nothing to do with party politics because the Chamber of Commerce...
While the news about Honda has dominated much of our work throughout 2019, there were also very many positive developments at Business West and in our region to shout about. Despite tough national...
On 15 December, Great Western Railway (GWR) will announce its biggest timetable shake-up since the 1970s, adding extra capacity, improving frequency and cutting travel times across the network. •...
phil_smith_-_managing_director_-_business_west.jpg Reacting to the news of the 2019 general election result, Phil Smith, Managing Director at Business West, comments: “The general election result...
When it comes to developing the customer proposition, it is hard to think of a better guy to do that than Peter Boucher. Peter, 48, is chief executive of Excalibur Communications in Swindon who has...
The fourth and final Initiative meeting of 2019 recapped our key activities, challenges and successes this year, before looking forward to 2020, as members discussed the Initiative’s 4 long-term...
