The INDEX magazine september 2011
INDEX business THEBusiness Championing local companies, teams and ideas Good deal for your guests
Is tourism your trade? If so, here’s a tip you’ll want to make sure everyone staying with you knows about: bus companies Arriva and Stagecoach and South Eastern trains have teamed up with Visit Kent to offer two-for-one deals on top attractions, restaurants and shopping centres.
“It is the third year we have run this campaign to make summer go with a swing in Kent, and to encourage people to use public transport,” says Lynnette Crisp, head of marketing at Visit Kent. This year’s offers could see visitors riding the waves at the Joss Bay
Surf School, enjoying a one-hour Horizon Sea Safari to seek out the seals, visiting Deal and Dover Castles, exploring the fairytale landscapes of Hever Castle, sampling the local ales on a Shepherd Neame Brewery Tour and capturing our Roman past at Richborough fort. To find more, go to
www.visitkentoffers.co.uk
Come Dine with Me
If you’re looking to meet new friends, enjoy great food and build relationships with like-minded individuals, the new business Dinner Friends could turn out to be the perfect dining partner. Members are able to experience some of the best, most exciting restaurants and venues in our area, with great opportunities to meet with other business professionals. For more information, see
www.dinnerfriends.co.uk.
Clearing a site? CALL INA PROFESSIONAL tree surgeon if necessary! Most of us appreciate the life-enhancing power of trees, and recognise that they need to be handled professionally to ensure both their potential and our safety. Tree surgeon Richard Maxwell (far right) has made his passion for trees his work, and, with 20 years experience under his belt, now heads with Adam Crouch (above, left) Hazelwood Tree Management Ltd. “Our customers can be assured of our dedication to preserving their valued trees,” says Richard. If you have a tree on-site that’s diseased or dangerous and has to be removed, Hazelwood Tree Management boasts a technically competent team, fully equipped and insured to meet any scale of tree problem. For more information see
www.hazelwoodtrees.co.uk
Acquistion for
Dreweatts The Fine Art Auction Group, holding company for the Dreweatts and BCVA auction businesses, has acquired the London-based Bloomsbury Auctions business from Bloomsbury Auctions Ltd, consolidating the co- marketing alliance that has been in place between the two firms since October 2009. The acquisition of the Bloomsbury business is being effected through a newly-formed subsidiary
that assumes all the current trade of the Bloomsbury Auctions business. Bloomsbury Auctions will continue to operate in tandem with Dreweatts (which has a branch in Tunbridge Wells) and, working together, both will further expand their now integrated portfolio of services to the UK and European fine art and collectors markets.
www.dnfa.com/tunbridgewells
PRG comes to Tunbridge Wells
PRG Group – a leading IT and business specialist consultancy in the US – has now launched its European business with the opening of a UK office, PRG Global Services UK, in Tunbridge Wells. The company says the town was chosen as the location for its UK headquarters, not only because it is a vibrant place in which to work but because the area as a whole is full of excellent professional individuals and business advisers. There is also a good directory of high-level suppliers offering local business support. Heading up the new UK organisation, managing director, Luciana Cousin (right), says, “I’m very pleased to be based in the Tunbridge Wells area and have been very impressed with the local support we have received”. For more information see
www.prg-uk.com
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