Punchline-Gloucester

Punchline-Gloucester.com is the leading business-to-business publication and website in Gloucestershire. It showcases local businesses and shares the latest news and insights that impact the region's business landscape. Packed with engaging and informative content from various industries, Punchline-Gloucester.com serves as your go-to resource for promoting your business and staying competitive. It also offers opportunities to attract talented employees through in-depth business news coverage. Our publication has expanded significantly and is now a must-read for local professionals. We focus on key sectors such as manufacturing, innovation, engineering, agriculture, construction, education, and hospitality, along with our regular features. The Punchline team personally delivers our publication to business parks, trading estates, and key areas in Gloucester, Cheltenham, Stroud, the Forest of Dean, and many other towns including Tewkesbury, Cirencester, and Tetbury. Our dedicated team, who write for both the magazine and the online platform, takes pride in meeting various businesses across the county. This hands-on approach allows us to appreciate the incredible companies that thrive in Gloucestershire. If you're looking to expand your business, promote new offerings, or enhance your company’s visibility, Punchline is here to assist. We can help you strengthen your presence in the growing business community and local economy, and even target specific business parks to meet your marketing goals.

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LET'S GO ROUND AGAIN: Development encircling ancient moat still unresolved

2 days ago | punchline-gloucester.com | Laura Enfield

Plans for 180 new homes around an ancient moat in Matson have been kicked back to councillors two years after they controversially approved them. Developers were granted permission in July 2023 to build on land at Snow Capel between Winnycroft Lane and the M5. The homes will wrap around the moat, which encloses a tiny 66m island and sits within Sneedham's Green, an area of common land thought to date back to the medieval period.
DECISION DUE: Council planners make

3 days ago | punchline-gloucester.com | Laura Enfield

Gloucester planning officers have refused to recommend an outcome for the massive Podsmead regeneration as they said the decision is too "finely balanced". The £45million plans are due before councillors for a decision on Tuesday (July 1). The once-in-a-generation development has been more than seven years in the making and is the result of a landmark collaboration between Gloucester City Homes (GCH), Homes England, Gloucester City Council, local residents and community leaders.
SPECIAL REPORT: Why final students face a grim job market

3 days ago | punchline-gloucester.com | Simon Hacker

University graduates across Gloucestershire who are set to get their results next month and embrace the start of their careers will face the toughest prospects since before the pandemic, according to a new study reported by employment agents Indeed. The findings from the world's biggest job agency on the job climate for new UK graduates suggest many bosses are pausing hiring and resorting to AI in a drive to trim the payroll and cut costs.
EXCLUSIVE: Doubledecker restaurant gets green light

3 days ago | punchline-gloucester.com | Simon Hacker

Cheltenham planners have said yes to a plan for a retail address on a 1960s parade in the town centre and close to John Lewis to be converted for use as a two-storey restaurant and food delivery service.
solstice all-nighter bagged £1k from Cotswold Way cleanup

3 days ago | punchline-gloucester.com | Simon Hacker

An epic all-night litter pick along the Cotswold Way on the shortest night of the year collected nearly 2,000 pieces of rubbish, including soiled knickers, faeces, sanitary towels, fast food packaging, 129 bags of dog poo and more than 950 pieces of plastic. But the haul raised £1,000 towards organiser Cllr Gill Thomas's campaign to buy litter-pickers, books and reading sessions for local schools – and has made a tidy sum towards the crucial target.
MARK OF EXCELLENCE: Albright IP earns top-tier status in European IP law rankings

3 days ago | punchline-gloucester.com | Simon Hacker

Cheltenham-based intellectual property specialist Albright IP has once again been recognised among Europe's top law firms. In a double achievement, the Bayshill Road-based legal experts have secured standout industry recognition in two major reports. The firm has been named in the Financial Times' annual report, Europe's Leading Patent Law Firms, which highlights 217 top-performing IP firms across Europe.
SHORT-CHANGED: HMRC reveals 518 employers who broke wages law

3 days ago | punchline-gloucester.com | Simon Hacker

Thousands of businesses in the South West region, incuding here in Gloucestershire, are running the risk of a financial thumping for underpaying their staff – even for the errors by a few pence. The latest list published by the government includes 518 businesses in the UK which hadn't correctly paid minimum wages to the tune of £7.4m. Some high-profile businesses are named, including one where underpaid wages exceeded £1.1m.
HIGH AND LOW: Amazon's £40m UK investment and dismal supplier compliance

3 days ago | punchline-gloucester.com | Laura Enfield

Amazon's pledge to invest £40billion in the UK over the next three years has been shadowed by it coming bottom of supplier compliance rankings. Yesterday (June 24) the online giant announced plans to construct four new fulfilment centres, creating more than 4,000 jobs across the sites. The ecommerce giant, already one of the UK's biggest private employers with a 75,000-strong workforce, will build two major warehouses in the East Midlands, due to open in 2027.
Business lender eyes best ever year on payouts

4 days ago | punchline-gloucester.com | Simon Hacker

Folk2Folk, the UK's largest peer-to-peer business lending platform by cumulative lending, has revealed that its investors earned £17.32m in interest payouts during the 2024/25 tax year. The figure represented the highest total in the 11-year history of the company, which has offices in Cheltenham and Cornwall.
525 homes imminent on Gloucestershire's border

4 days ago | punchline-gloucester.com | Simon Hacker

Poised for a rubber stamp, a controversial plan for 525 new homes on 41 hectares of farmland at the southern border of Gloucestershire and close to Wotton-under-Edge looks set to be finally activated by planners this Thursday (June 26).