Start Your Own Business Week
One of the themes for my year as High Sheriff is Business and Enterprise. By supporting this month’s Start Your Own Business Week, I want to encourage the growth of small businesses and highlight the help that is available from the Isle Of Wight Chamber of Commerce....
Rapanui growing in Cowes
Eco-clothing brand Rapanui’s new purpose-built site in Cowes is paying dividends with a higher volume of business and new recruits expanding the team. 10 staff have joined the company including eight apprentices. Investments in plant machinery mean that prices and...
Moore Stephens success
The team at accountants Moore Stephens, Newport office are celebrating the success of their trainees Sam Snudden, Clair Grace, Bryony Davies and Vicky Drayton who all recently passed professional exams with flying colours. Sam and Vicky joined Moore Stephens Newport...
WBS Open Day
Wight Business Services on Daish Way in Newport are inviting businesses to attend their open day on Wednesday 24thSeptember from 10.00 to 6.00pm. Central Garage, PC Consultants, Wight Fibre and Corporate Furniture work with WBS and will all be taking part. Gary Smith...
Chamber / Council agreeement signed
The Memorandum of Understanding between the IW Chamber Of Commerce and the IW Council has been officially signed. Council leader Ian Stephens and IW Chamber President David Groocock put pen to paper at the Chamber’s annual Cowes Week lunch, held at the Royal...
Memorandum of understanding for Chamber and Council
The new memorandum of understanding planned between the Isle of Wight Council and the Isle of Wight Chamber of Commerce, Tourism and Industry was agreed by the council’s Executive on 7 July. A new Economic Development board will be created to steer projects that...
Chamber Awards 2014 – enter now!
Entries are now open for the Isle Of Wight Chamber Of Commerce’s annual Business Awards Of Excellence, which will be held at Cowes Yacht Haven Events Centre on Friday 21st November. “There are thirteen categories that businesses can enter, including a brand...
Island to benefit from Solent LEP Local Growth Deal
The Solent LEP is creating a new centre of excellence on the Isle of Wight focused on the growth area of composites. The centre will be supported by the global engineering company, GKN and based alongside their high-tech facilities. It is part of a £124.8m package of...
Chamber B2B launches new Business Directory
The Isle Of Wight Chamber Of Commerce’s B2B Enterprise Expo is back at Cowes Yacht Haven’s Events Centre. The event begins today (1st July) and runs until Thursday (3rd July). Zoe Stroud, Group Marketing Manager said: “It’s our second year and we’ve extended the Expo...
Young entrepreneurs meet Princess Beatrice
Four young people who received help from the Isle Of Wight Chamber Of Commerce and the Isle of Wight Council to start their own businesses attended a lunch with HRH Princess Beatrice on Monday 16 June. The lunch, hosted at Osborne House by English Heritage, was...
Island Business May / June 2025
