For the second year running, Caribbean Blinds has won at the national Real Homes Awards. The manufacturer of outdoor shading products has won in The Great Outdoors category with their hugely popular Cuba Awning product being crowned ‘The Best of the Best’ against stiff competition. Each year the Real Homes Awards attracts hundreds of entries…
A Suffolk-based freight company has bolstered its customs services in light of the disruption caused by the UK’s exit from the European Union. Award-winning freight forwarder Morrison Freight has announced it’s expanding its customs offering to provide additional services to new and current customers. As a result of Brexit, any goods that cross the border…
Award-winning PR & marketing agency, Pier, has appointed Amy Bendall as managing director. Pier is owned by CEO and founder Kate Bowden Smith, who previously held the role MD. The promotion for incumbent director Amy marks the first time the business has made this appointment. Amy has been at Pier for almost five years, overseeing…
Prettys Solicitors is moving offices – with an open-plan layout promoting a more flexible and collaborative way of working. After many years based in Elm Street in Ipswich, the firm is relocating to a new home in St Vincent House in October. Ian Waine, Senior Partner at Prettys, said the new offices would provide the…
Creative Building Designs is the first tenant of Dream Hatcher, the business incubation centre offering free office space and business support to fledgling businesses. Creative Building Designs, which provides a full range of architectural services for residential and commercial schemes across the UK, moved to the newly remodelled premises in August. Founder of Creative Building…
An Ipswich IT company urges all local businesses to update their Apple devices and remind their employees to update their personal Apple products, following the discovery of a zero-day, zero-click vulnerability. Lucid Systems, which is based in Felaw Maltings, are Suffolk’s leading IT support service. The company works with businesses across the East of England…
East of England family charity Ormiston Families has made the final shortlist for The Third Sector Award in The Investors in People Awards 2021. In a record-breaking year for entries, with nearly three hundred organisations involved, this is an outstanding achievement and one that everyone at Ormiston Families is proud of. The Investors in People…
Ipswich Borough Council has provided funding to Business Growth Coaches Network (BGCN) to run a Youth Entrepreneur programme for young people not in employment, education or training. BGCN will offer a two-week, 20-session Introduction to Running a Business programme for 24 young people aged 16-24. Each of the 20, two-hour sessions will focus on one…