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Ahead of the Agenda: The Week Ahead

October 19, 2024
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Monday October 21 Final: Tristel Tuesday October 22 Finals: Nanoco Group, Virgin Wines UK, Aptamer Group, The Revel Collective Q1 result: Petra Diamonds Trading announcements: InterContinental Hotels Group, Gear4music (Holdings), System1 Group, Sosandar Economic announcement: Public sector net borrowing Wednesday October 23 Interim: B. P. Marsh & Partners Q3 result: Pensionbee Group Trading announcements: Barratt Redrow, Gem Diamonds Thursday October 24 Finals: Gattaca,...

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The LAST WORD: Esther McMorris, founder and CEO, Nine Feet Tall

October 18, 2024
The LAST WORD:  Esther McMorris, founder and CEO, Nine Feet Tall

Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Nine Feet Tall founder and CEO Esther McMorris answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST  Film you watched? The last film I watched was actually a weekend family film, Despicable Me 4, which was...

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Future’s shares under pressure as CEO announces plan to step down 18 months into the job

October 18, 2024
Future’s shares under pressure as CEO announces plan to step down 18 months into the job

Shares in Future, the Bath-headquartered specialist global media group, fell by more than 18% today after its CEO announced he is to quit just 18 months after being appointed. Jon Steinberg, pictured, was a major figure in the US media sector before taking over from previous Future chief executive Zillah Byng-Thorne.  In a statement...

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Green light for work to start on Bath architects’ ground-breaking community-led development

October 18, 2024
Green light for work to start on Bath architects’ ground-breaking community-led development

Bath-headquartered architecture and placemaking consultancy Nash Partnership has secured full planning permission for one of the UK’s largest community-led development projects of its kind. The approved proposals represent the first build phase of the ground-breaking masterplan in the Southmead area of Bristol, with 187 new flats and a mix of non-residential uses.  The project...

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‘Painstakingly refurbished’ 18th-century townhouse-turned-wedding and events venue up for sale

October 18, 2024
‘Painstakingly refurbished’ 18th-century townhouse-turned-wedding and events venue up for sale

A Grade I listed Georgian townhouse used as an upmarket venue for weddings and other events has come onto the market with a guide price of £950,000. Parade House, pictured, on Fore Street, Trowbridge, was built in around 1720 for the wealthy cloth merchant Robert Houlton and is one of the town’s finest buildings.   It...

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Now it’s handbags at dawn: Battle for Mulberry continues with bidder and majority owner digging in

October 18, 2024
Now it’s handbags at dawn: Battle for Mulberry continues with bidder and majority owner digging in

The tussle for ownership of struggling Somerset-based fashion business Mulberry descended into a war of words this week, with retail group Frasers upping its offer but the brand’s majority owner insisting it had no interest in selling up. Frasers, which is controlled by billionaire Mike Ashley, increased its cash bid for Mulberry from £83m...

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