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Brewin Dolphin issues interim financial report

The private client investment manager and financial services provider Brewin Dolphin has delivered its Interim Financial Report for the half-year ending 31 March 2013

Brian James Head of Brewin Dolphin in Plymouth said:

“We have made good progress against our objectives in Plymouth. We detect a revival in economic confidence and see increasingly positive trading conditions...

Positive Energy Is a Chain Reaction

Gordon Dean was a distinguished American lawyer and prosecutor. One of the original members of the Atomic Energy Commission, he became its chairman from 1950 to 1953. It’s said that when Dean died in a plane crash in 1958, among his personal efforts was an envelope with nine life lessons scribbled on the back. These lessons aren’t about the law or about atomic energy. They’re wisdom about his...

Vice-Chancellor to advise government on universities and regional growth

Plymouth University’s Vice-Chancellor has been appointed as an expert adviser in a major national review into how universities can support regional growth.

Professor Wendy Purcell has been invited alongside six other leading national independent experts, including senior figures from Oxford University and the universities of Manchester and Nottingham, to support the Government's...

Council offer businesses guide to intellectual property

Businesses are being invited to an event that could help make them money as well as save hundreds of pounds in legal bills.

Plymouth City Council is hosting a session on intellectual property and how to protect it and exploit it. The event is one of a series of summer business briefings hosted by the council which are designed to offer tips and advice for small and medium-sized...

Urban Enterprise programme secures further funding for business hopefuls

A free programme to encourage more Plymouth people to give business a go is celebrating a further two years of funding.

The Urban Enterprise programme has secured £1.39 million to continue laying the foundations to help Plymouth’s untapped entrepreneurs make a solid start to their business careers. Plymouth City Council and the European Regional Development Fund have both awarded...

Council to host solar industry open day for major energy project

A major renewable energy programme is moving a step closer as Plymouth City Council invites solar business leaders to attend a supplier open day on 22 May.

The open day will take place in the Plymouth Guildhall from 10am and is an opportunity for renewable business to meet the Council’s procurement officers to discuss plans to purchase, fit and maintain solar PV panels for up to 14...

Free 'Ask the Expert' sessions at Plymouth Business Show 2013

Free ‘Ask the Expert’ advice sessions on a range of topics are to be held at the Plymouth Business Show 2013 . Anyone at the show will be able to claim a free 15 minute one-to-one consultation with an expert, during which they will receive personalised information and advice.

Plymouth Business Show 2013, which is being held on Wednesday 26 June at Plymouth Pavilions, is the first of...

Everyone is a salesperson … whether they like it or not

Everyone is a salesperson all of their life. After all, whether you are a mechanic, teacher or a manager, you are selling ideas. You are negotiating. You are communicating … persuading … influencing. If you don’t believe you are a salesperson, I encourage you to rethink your position because the probability that you will become successful is significantly diminished.

Networks are the...

Plymouth company is taking tubes to new heights

Council leader Tudor Evans has been touring a Plymouth company whose precision tubes are at the frontier of science and engineering.

Fine Tubes in Estover have been developing products for space as well as scientific research underground and the leader of the Council has been learning at first hand about the company's future direction.

The company is a major high tech...

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