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Pre-election survey reveals West of England 'outshone' by London and Manchester

With only 30 days until voters in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and Bath & North East Somerset decide the next West of England ‘Metro’ Mayor, Business West is calling on the successful candidate...
Posted on: 06.04.21
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Training is the key to future success

Recently I was talking to someone who had started up a new estate agency just weeks before the first lockdown. Thanks to a lot of hard work, they’ve had a very successful first year, despite...
Ian Bell
Ian Bell
Business West
Posted on: 01.04.21
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Covid-19 – One Year On – how we united as a Business Community

It’s been a year like no other. Overnight the business landscape changed, let alone education and home life. As we look back on this tumultuous year, we reflect on how we, as a leading organisation...
Posted on: 31.03.21
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Stroud may be the best place in the UK to live, but what about for businesses?

What great news for business that Stroud has been voted the best place to live in Britain by the Sunday Times. James Monk, one of my Business West colleagues who is commercial director and lives in...
Ian Mean
Ian Mean
Business West
Posted on: 29.03.21
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Give 10 minutes of your time to shape the future of the economy in Swindon & Wiltshire

Now more than ever, businesses in Swindon & Wiltshire need their local decision makers to rise to the challenges that they face. Accordingly, in the run up to local elections on 6th May, Business...
Posted on: 29.03.21
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Business West welcomes Honda site announcement and the hundreds of jobs it will create

Business West today (26 March) welcomed the announcement from Honda that a buyer had been found for the Honda Swindon site. The purchase from the Panattoni Group and the use of the site for a large-...
Posted on: 26.03.21
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Businesses join forces to call for better cycle infrastructure across Bristol

Bristol and West of England Initiative have been calling on their members to back Cycling Works Bristol , a campaign that calls for investment into cycle infrastructure to allow more employees to...
Nina Skubala
Nina Skubala
Business West
Posted on: 26.03.21
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Joined up thinking and shovel ready projects central to continued investment in Swindon, MPs tell business leaders

In the week that pupils in England returned to school, Swindon MPs Robert Buckland and Justin Tomlinson and Leader of Swindon Borough Council Cllr David Renard joined our quarterly meeting with...
Ian Larrard
Ian Larrard
Business West
Posted on: 23.03.21
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3 Questions with Professor Lyndsay Duthie, CEO of The Production Guild of Great Britain

UWE, in partnership with Business West, runs an annual lecture series that brings top business leaders to Bristol. We caught up with Professor Lyndsay Duthie, CEO of The Production Guild of Great...
Posted on: 22.03.21
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