While Bath’s hard-hit hospitality industry digests the measures announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak to help the sector in his summer economic statement, two experts from the area have questioned whether they go far enough. Richard Lake, an associate in the leisure & hospitality team at Bath-headquartered law firm Royds Withy King, fears many of...
It was three months ago that Pearson May partner Matthew Rutter first wrote here about the various support schemes introduced by the government to help support businesses and individuals through the coronavirus pandemic. Since then there have been various changes to the main support schemes introduced by the government and it is worth recapping...
The CBI said Chancellor Rishi Sunak was “absolutely right” to prioritise jobs in his summer statement on Wednesday. Director-general Dame Carolyn Fairbairn, pictured, said: “Flattening the daunting unemployment curve about to hit our country could not be more important. Joblessness scars lives and hits the young and most disadvantaged hardest. “The jobs plan is an important step...
Measures to address the huge economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic announced this week by Chancellor Rishi Sunak have been welcomed by Business West, the region’s largest business group. Matt Griffith, director of policy at Business West – which runs Bath Chamber of Commerce – described them as impressive but also added that the...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak presented his economic statement in the Commons on Wednesday by saying the government would do all it could to help prevent job losses in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The main points were: Government will pay £1,000 to businesses for each furloughed employee they bring back and retain until January....
Joanna Crofts, commercial property consultancy Knight Frank’s head of property asset management for South Wales and the South West, has been promoted from associate to partner. Joanna, pictured, joined Knight Frank as a graduate in 2004 and in 2014 joined the property asset management (PAM) team, which manages key industrial, office and retail buildings on...
More than 100,000 pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) have been made for frontline healthcare workers by staff at the University of Bath since the coronavirus pandemic hit the city in March. A 60-strong team from the Faculty of Engineering & Design and across other departments have been making face shields and other PPE...
Monday July 6 Economic announcements: Halifax house price index, PMI construction Tuesday July 7 Finals: Halfords, JD Sports, Palace Capital Interims: Micro Focus International, RM Trading announcements: Reach, Electrocomponents Economic announcement: Nationwide house price index Wednesday July 8 Finals: Liontrust Asset Management, U and I Group Thursday July 9 Final: Ilika plc, Superdry Interim: Petropavlovsk Q2 result: Page Trading announcement: Persimmon Economic announcement: RICS housing...
Bath is to stage its first virtual business festival to help firms in the city start to bounce back from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Taking place on July 22, Bath Business Festival (BBF) will celebrate the city’s business offering as well as giving its firms a unique chance to meet, learn, share,...
Specialist manufacturer Avon Rubber has sold its historic dairy industry business for £180m, leaving it to grow its larger protective equipment division through strategic acquisitions. Melksham-based Avon Rubber’s Milkrite InterPuls division, which has been bought by Swedish group DeLaval, is a world leader in producing milking equipment for the farming industry. The division had...
