HSL, the UK’s leading comfort furniture specialist, is arriving in Exeter this week, with a brand new store set to open in Duns Business Centre on Trusham Road in Marsh Barton tomorrow, Thursday 7 May.
Manufacturing high quality, handmade back-care furniture for more than 40 years, the new Orpington store is the fourteenth HSL outlet to open in the last 12 months, cementing the company’s commitment to offering outstanding customer service and a wide selection of excellent quality products, in a huge choice of styles and fabrics, that provide value for money.
A car dealer in Exeter is big on being green, so sponsoring a local bowls tournament has proved the perfect match.
JFE Nissan Exeter, on the Marsh Barton Trading Estate, has celebrated 10 years of supporting the annual ISCA Bowling Competition, providing cash prizes for the winners.
At this year’s event players from across the region came to compete on the bowling greens, with a team from Exmouth eventually scooping the title.
Matthew Holcombe, Dealer Principal at JFE Nissan Exeter, which sells the 100% electric Nissan LEAF, said the decade-long partnership had been...
Eighteen-year-old entrepreneur, Hannah White, has opened her first beauty salon based on Marsh Barton Trading Estate in Exeter.
Hannah, who grew up in Alphington and attended local schools Bowhill Primary School and St James High School, trained as a beautician at Exeter College and went on to work at several Exeter based salons before making the brave decision to follow her dreams and go it alone.
Hannah opened her tanning and beauty salon, The Beauty Lounge, on AlphinBrook Road last month and has had a constant stream of customers already.
Police in Exeter are appealing for information following three linked sexual assaults.
Two assaults occurred along the footpath which runs alongside the River Exe opposite the Quay area of Exeter and down towards Double Locks public house.
On both occasions the offender approached the female victims on a bicycle and touched them inappropriately before riding off.
The first incident occurred at around 5pm on Tuesday 11th November, up river from the Double Locks public house.
A man approached the female victim on a bicycle and sexually assaulted her before...
Works are well underway on the new Matford Green Business Park, with SWH Civils as the Principle Contractor for Civil Engineering and Infrastructure operations.
The major extension to the established Matford Park and Marsh Barton employment areas is recognised as Exeter’s largest commercial and trade centre.
Working with Eagle Land, SWH has provided the infrastructure for the first two stages of the new 20acre business development, which will generate 46,500 square meters of employment space, including pubs, restaurants and retail facilities.
St Thomas Cricket and Sports Club in Marsh Barton is reaping the rewards of a new 12kw solar installation that could slash the clubs electricity bills by up to 50%.
The club, which is now run as an event, conference and function venue, decided to go ahead with the 48 panel installation after the club manager cut his own electricity bills by 20% following the installation of solar panels on the roof of his own home.
Cricket Club Managers Mike and Sue Evans had panels installed on their home in Exeter by MIG Renewable Technologies just over a year ago and have so far received...
He’s already won a business award, taken on 25 staff and is heading for his first £1 million turnover. And now Chris Rundle’s company GK Signs is on schedule to sticker in excess of 8,000 vehicles this year for the likes of Thrifty Car and Van Rental and Hertz Rent a car.
And here’s the remarkable bit - Chris is just 19.
GK Signs was an ailing company turning over just £48,000 when Chris took over the Exeter-based firm in July 2011 - symbolically the day after he left school aged 16 with just three GCSEs.
Since then, he’s won back nearly all the previous clients....
Police and fire crews have begun investigating the cause of major blaze at an Exeter car show room. At its height around 40 firefighters tackled the fire, at Hendys Car Supermarket on the Marsh Barton Industrial Estate, which was reported to be under control by 7:45am. Crews remain at the scene and the incident is still causing major traffics delays due blocked roads on the estate. Arriving on scene at around 5:34am firefighters found smoke coming from the commercial building, which measures 20 metres by 10 metres, and was well alight. Five fire appliances, along with support from an...
Crew from Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service were called to extinguish a baler which was on fire at Exeter's Marsh Barton Industrial Estate this morning.
An appliance from Danes Castle and from Middlemoor attended the incident, at Devon Contract Waste Marsh Barton, at 8am this morning.
Firefighters attended the scene after reports of a baler on fire.
On arrival they found a fire involving a plastics baling machine within an industrial building. Fire crews extinguished the fire using one hose reel jet.
