Press & Media Archive

• Global cosmetics firm “made up” to receive Beacon accreditation
  Somerset and Devon-based international personal care company Swallowfield, has become the latest South West firm to receive Beacon accreditation.

• Howard Tenens Installs First Gas Refuelling Station
  Howard Tenens has installed its first natural gas refuelling station. This now provides the infrastructure for the company's low carbon transport strategy with the roll-out of dual fuel (diesel and gas) vehicles across its HGV fleet.

• New 'sparky' recruits for Beacon South West in Poole
  Poole-based recruitment consultants, Mploy Staffing Solutions and electrical contractors Harvey Electrical have become Dorset’s 39th and 40th Beacon South West accredited companies.

• Internationalisation arrives at Bristol Airport
  UKTI South West and South West RDA invite Beacon firms to give feedback on the export agenda in the South West

• Dancing with the stars - IDS
  Dance supplies designer and wholesaler International Dance Supplies (IDS) has become Devon’s 53rd Beacon South West accredited company.

• The sweet taste of success for Beacon South West's 26th accreditation in Bristol
  Family run TasteTech has become Bristol’s 26th Beacon company. A specialist manufacturer of encapsulated food flavourings and ingredients working with leading bakery and confectionery clients in 28 countries around the world

• Beacon Set To Help Region Through The Recession With LSC Nov.09
  Free seminars to take place on 4th November 2009 in Somerset and Wiltshire - Beacon South West is hosting two short seminars to provide insights in to the biggest success factor for business; its leadership and management

• Bristol Manufacturer Limbers Up For Success - 08.Sept.09
  Limbs and Things - has become the 24th company in the Bristol area to receive a Beacon South West accreditation in recognition of its ongoing innovation and success achieving a nine-fold net-profit growth in just four years.

• Tamar Foods’ Tastes Success - 08.Sept.09
  Top Cornish pastry goods manufacturer Tamar Foods is celebrating a decade of success by joining leading regional business forum, Beacon South West

• Tewkesbury tube manufacturer is no fools gold
  A cornerstone of the local business community, the success and innovative spirit of Tewkesbury-based tube manufacturer Tungum has been cemented with a coveted accreditation from Beacon South West.

• Repair yard a Beacon for economic growth
  AandP Falmouth, the ship repair and conversion specialists which employs more than 450 staff in Falmouth - the largest private sector employer in West Cornwall - awarded Beacon status.

• Bott To Host Beacons In Bude
  Leading business directors given opportunity to learn about enhanced support service from Business Link’s new Head of Convergence, Alex Nicholas

• From Doom To Boom, Post-Recession Vision To The South West
  From Doom To Boom. Internationally Acclaimed Business Guru Brings Post- Recession Vision To The South West - 27th October 2009

• People power helps Stirling Dynamics fly high - Aug.12, 2009
  Having secured a heavyweight, high profile strategic partnership with Airbus, the leading aircraft manufacturer, Clifton-based firm Stirling Dynamics has seen an exciting five-year period of growth despite the recession.

• Tripping the light fan-plastic ~ British Falcon Plastics
  With a blue chip client base that includes The Body Shop, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, and Bayer, Devon based plastic manufacturer British Falcon Plastics is the latest inspirational and high growth business to receive Beacon accreditation.

• People Power Celebrated In The South West
  With recruitment, staff retention and investment in training firmly at the top of boardroom agendas, Torbay and South Devon Employment and Skills Board, in association with local partners such as Business Link and Torbay Innovation Centre.... (cont/..

• Business partnerships hailed as key ingredient for success
  In the challenging current climate, many businesses in the South West have been quick to freeze spending, investment and indeed recruitment. But despite the current economic uncertainty, Beacon companies in Cornwall have earmarked partnerships as.....

• Local Firms Opportunity To Learn To Be Best In The South West
  Beacon South West, in association with Torbay and South Devon Employment and Skills Board, hosted a free training workshop on 21 May for attendees to learn from leading regional companies how to make the most of new business leads and improve performance

• Clinton Devon Estates’ winning ways continue with Beacon award
  Clinton Devon Estates, one of the most prestigious landed estates in the South West comprising over 25,000 acres, has continued its winning ways in becoming the latest high profile business to be awarded Beacon status.

• Business partnerships hailed as key ingredient for success
  In the challenging current climate, many businesses in the South West have been quick to freeze spending, investment and indeed recruitment.

• Latest Beacon turns waste into revenue
  Two years on from its move into the commercial world and an MBO, Devon Waste Management has been awarded Beacon status in recognition of its success in securing long-term contracts on key landfill sites and 24 recycling centres across Devon

• Total Ltd AIMS high with Beacon South West
  Total Ltd, a Cheltenham-based business which is hoping to float on AIM (Alternative Investment Market) within the next two or three years, is the latest high profile company to be awarded the coveted Beacon status.

• Snibor inspires Dorset businesses with its revolutionary eco-systems
  Businesses from across the region are considering whether to introduce ground-breaking energy saving systems having seen them in action at Port Regis Preparatory School at Motcombe Park, Shaftesbury.

• Green commitment sees The Commercial Group win ‘Beacon’ status
  A long-standing commitment to the environment has seen not only The Commercial Group, the UK’s largest independently-owned office services company, win £5m worth of new business but also receive the coveted Beacon status.

• Dorset signing of new Skills Pledge by Beacon Companies
  A special event in Poole was staged for the signing of a new Skills Pledge by nine innovative businesses.

• Beacon Companies sign up to the new Skills Pledge
  Eight innovative businesses are amongst the first in the South West to sign up to the new Skills Pledge.

• Beacon Honours UK's Fastest Growing Online Book Retailer
  A Gloucester online book retailer with a larger range of books than Amazon and that uses the latest technology to print one-off editions and lost volumes, has been awarded Beacon status off the back of its innovative approach to retailing.

• RH Advertising is Awarded Beacon Status
  The coveted status of ‘Beacon Company’ has been awarded to Exeter-based RH Advertising, in recognition of the firm’s ongoing growth and success.

• FT feature for Fudges Dorset Village Bakery
  National recognition in FT for Beacon company, Fudges Dorset Village Bakery.

• Fair wind blows for Bristol renewable energy company
  Wind Prospect, one of the companies behind the world's first large scale wave farm off the coast of Cornwall, is the latest high profile company in the region to receive Beacon status.

• DUO puts best boot forward with new Beacon status
  DUO, the world's leading retailer of ‘perfectly fitting footwear,’ has been given Beacon status in recognition of its innovative approach to retail and commitment to developing the local economy in Frome.

• Sustainability is the way forward for business, if only we had the time
  An overwhelming majority (91%) of leading businesses in the South West believe that it is possible to introduce sustainable business practices and remain profitable

• Rowcroft recognised as South West’s leading hospice
  Rowcroft Hospice in Torquay has become the first hospice in the South West to be given Beacon status, joining just nine other charities in the 200-strong Beacon network with the honour

• South West firms learn to be world beaters!
  South West companies are set to be given a unique insight into how Renishaw is maintaining vital manufacturing jobs here in the UK whilst competing against low production costs enjoyed by emerging economies.

• Combe House wins 'Excellence In Tourism' Small Hotel of the Year Gold Award 2007
  Combe House, near Exeter has won the coveted South West ‘Excellence in Tourism’ Small Hotel of the Year Award for 2007 - 2008. The awards, known as the ‘Tourism Oscars’, celebrate the finest in the West Country.

• Avon Metals set to forge ahead thanks to Beacon South West
  Avon Metals, a recent recipient of the Queen's Award for Export, is the latest high-profile company in the region to achieve Beacon status.

• Sharp's named Brewer of the Year by Beer Bible The Good Pub Guide
  Cornish brewery Sharp's has been named as the best in the UK by national beer bible the Good Pub Guide 2008.

• Michael Thorne to Build on Beacon Status
  One of the South West construction industry's most dynamic and fastest-growing businesses has been recognised for the contribution it has made to sector.

• Beacon hits 200
  Beacon South West has welcomed its 200th company, Dorset Cereals, into the fold of star businesses with Beacon status.

• Rockley Watersports Sail into the Southampton Boat Show!
  Rockley Watersports will once again exhibit at the Southampton Boat Show following last year's successful event!

• William Pollard Takes Delivery of a Large Format Printer and Finishing Equipment
  Exeter printer Pollards announces the delivery of a Heidelberg 5-colour printing press, which prints on B2 (520mm x 720mm) paper. This equipment extends further the litho and digital print capabilities of the company.

• Technology Firm Connects with Beacon Network
  A Yeovil-based firm that puts information at politicians' fingertips and helps bring live football to our homes is celebrating the news that it is joining an elite group of South West businesses with Beacon status.

• Corin Group gets 'hip' status from Beacon
  An award-winning, Cirencester-based manufacturer is on the brink of conquering the global orthopaedic market with its cutting-edge solution for restoring mobility and relieving the pain of osteoarthritis.

• PADI is 'positively buoyant' as it looks to new markets
  The Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) issues around one million diving qualifications a year, and is setting its sights on grooming a whole new generation of divers in developing markets.

• More Glory for Erebor
  A Wiltshire-based IT consultancy that has experienced 100 per cent growth three years in a row has been recognised for its impressive expansion and employee management by Beacon South West.

• Smart Recruitment Join the Elite!
  Award winning Smart Recruitment has firmly cemented their position as part of the south coasts business elite by being invited to join a prestigious forum of Recruitment Directors to share best practice.

• Future leaders of armed forces go under cover at Dorset businesses
  This week, thirty officers from the UK Defence Academy's Joint Services Command and Staff College visited two of Dorset's leading companies to learn more about the world of industry.

• Space Catering Equipment has stars in its eyes
  A Gloucester-based company, which has just completed a major contract designing and supplying kitchens for Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall of River Cottage, has been awarded ‘Beacon’ status.

• Eastern delights for Gloucestershire firm
  Gloucester-based Prima Dental Group is being heralded for its export prowess following a sales increase of nearly 400 per cent since 2001, thanks entirely to overseas business in the USA, China, Japan and Korea.

• European School Takes to the Water with Rockley Watersports!
  The largest international school in Europe, 'The British School in the Netherlands' (BSN) has once again visited Poole to learn watersports with sailing specialist, Rockley Watersports.

• Tewkesbury MP stops traffic with Gloucestershire manufacturers
  Laurence Robertson, the Shadow Minister for Northern Ireland and MP for Tewkesbury, has joined manufacturers from across Gloucestershire at a showcase to discover how one manufacturer in the county is keeping ahead of its competition.

• Fluid Transfer International becomes the 180th Beacon Company
  Fluid Transfer International, a finalist in last year's Gloucester Citizen and Gloucestershire Echo Business Awards 2006, has been recognised once again for its business prowess.

• Hydro International Makes a Splash!
  A Clevedon-based company has a bright future thanks to the nation's growing appetite for sustainable urban developments. Hydro International has seen its turnover quadruple in the last five years to £22m and this looks set to continue.

• Fashion and Ethics - a powerful combination
  Sustainability has historically been a word banded around by businesses for PR purposes. But times are changing as companies across the world are responding to stakeholder, investor and customer pressure.

• Smart Recruitment are Apple of Orchard's Eye
  Award winning Smart Recruitment recently took to the airwaves when Nick Graff of the Yeovil branch and Helen Stacey, Director of Smart Recruitment, joined Somerset's Orchard FM to help the public with their recruitment issues.

• Rencol Tolerance Rings wins major manufacturing industry award
  Rencol Tolerance Rings were amongst the big winners at the highly prestigious MX 2007 - Manufacturing Excellence Awards. The company won the RSM Robson Rhodes award for manufacturing excellence.

• 'Green is the new gold' for South West businesses
  Sustainability has historically been a word banded around by businesses for PR purposes. But times are changing as companies across the world are responding to stakeholder, investor and customer pressure

• Skills Shortages in the Renewable Energy Sector
  Recent changes in Government policy and the knowledge of consumers surrounding the threat of global warming, from greenhouse gas emissions, has lead to the renewable energy industry experiencing real growth.

• Beacon Company CEO Sean Taylor completes his amazing 150 mile run through the Sahara
  Well, the second and final part of my challenge has been completed! The Marathon Des Sables (the toughest footrace in the world - so they say).

• Double first for Aster Group in Wiltshire Business of the Year Awards
  Aster Group bagged a brace of prizes at the Wiltshire Business of the Year Awards ceremony, held in Swindon, on Friday evening (2nd March), winning in two new categories.

• Happy Birthday, Beacon South West!
  Beacon South West, an initiative that is dedicated to identifying and bringing together the region’s most successful companies, is celebrating its second birthday.