IT storage management solutions company, Solid State Solutions Ltd, have purchased Unit 1 at Prisma Park in Wade Road, Basingstoke, and in doing so have become the seventh company with representation on the development. With S3 occupying 2,500 sq ft, a total of 53% of the floor space has now been let or sold. In partnership [...]

HOUSEBUILDER Redrow today announced it was axing 350 jobs and shutting down two locations, including their Sourthen office in Basingstoke. The developer also reported that they are closing their Warrington office as they reported a 19% drop in sales compared with last year, and a 45% fall in upcoming deals. Today’s trading update to the city said: [...]

The North Hampshire Chamber of Commerce will be holding a networking lunch at Audleys Wood Hotel in Basingstoke on 15th July. Built in the 1880s Audleys Wood is a Victorian Hunting Lodge, set in seven acres of lush woodland in the heart of Hampshire countryside. Our guest speaker this month is Sue Sharpe, a Skills Broker [...]

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Computer games retailer Game PLC, with head offices in Basingstoke, said a strong market and a raft of hit games releases had helped it beat expectations in the first half of the year. The firm said it was “slightly ahead” of hopes thanks to new titles including Grand Theft Auto IV and Nintendo’s Wii Fit. Other [...]

Shire, the UK’s third-largest drugmaker, with head offices in Basingstoke, has agreed to pay 328 million euros ($520.7 million) for Germany’s Jerini AG to add a treatment for an illness that causes sometimes fatal swelling of tissue.Investors in Jerini will get 6.25 euros for each of their shares, 68 percent more than the Berlin-based company’s [...]