Four Portsmouth companies have moved into a university-owned SME hub. The 20,000 sq ft business centre, Portsmouth Technopole, is run by Oxford Innovation on behalf of the University of Portsmouth and is located at Kingston Crescent, just off the M275 gateway to the city.
John Reid & Sons Ltd, a Dorset steel company otherwise known as REIDsteel, intends to move to a new state-of-the-art facility after outgrowing its Christchurch base.
Over the month of August, Premier Inn intends to open around 600 hotel bedrooms. This is a mix of brand new hotels and extensions to existing ones.
Neilson Active Holidays, a Brighton-based provider of overseas active holidays has been bought out for the second time, backed this time by mid-market private equity investment firm LDC.
The holiday provider offers activity-focused holidays across seven countries in Europe. It operates beachclubs, ski hotels and chalets as well as 65 yachts.
An industrial development in Airport Service Road worth £10m is only a few weeks from being completed.
Southampton will be getting a new creative business base, but unusually the site will be taking over the top floor of Marlands shopping centre.