Business

A new business support programme has been launched offering a range of business training and support services for the self-employed and small to medium size enterprises (SMEs) in Devon, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay.

Up to 600 businesses will be supported through the Heart of the South West Growth Hub’s new programme – Thrive.

The programme is part funded by the ERDF and the...

=A great entrepreneur is at the heart of every successful firm. However, behind them is generally an adept accountant. Accounting allows a company to have complete control over its finances while minimizing business taxes and other expenses. People having the ability to operate a firm may not have the knowledge or appetite to handle the accounts – and they certainly will not have the time....

A recent survey of the South West tech sector commissioned by Tech South West revealed that over half of tech companies in the region are finding it impossible or very difficult to recruit.

This is perhaps par for the course given the meteoric growth of the region’s tech sector, which has seen an increase in Venture Capital investment of over 500% since 2016 and a corresponding boom in...

A small warehouse presents various optimisation challenges, some of which can be quite difficult to tackle if you’re not prepared. You have to split your attention between multiple fronts, and always ensure that you’re taking the big picture into consideration. On the bright side, we’ve learned a lot about optimising this kind of work over the last decades, and you can benefit from that...