A pioneering campaign to help firms in the South West prepare for life outside the European Union has earned a major national award for Business West, the region’s biggest business support organisation. Recognising that Brexit represents the single most radical transformation in the way that British businesses trade for decades, Business West – which...
Regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming, which has an office in Bath, has been named Business of the Year at the prestigious British Chambers of Commerce Awards. As well as the flagship accolade, Bishop Fleming made it a double on the night by also winning the national Workplace Wellbeing Award. The awards, now in their...
Monday December 2 Interims: Civitas Social Housing, Fusion Antibody, Omega Diagnostics Economic announcement: PMI manufacturing Tuesday December 3 Finals: Gooch & Housego, Hyve Group, Image Scan Holdings, Oxford Metrics Interims: Collagen Solutions, Consort Med., Falanx Holdings, Ramsdens Holdings, Solid State, Tekmar Group, Uls Tech Trading announcement: Ferguson Economic announcement: PMI construction Wednesday December 4...
The South West will be among the UK’s fastest-growing regions next year, according to new research by global accountancy group PwC – although the rate of 1.2% will be significantly below its long-term average rate of around 2%. PwC’s latest UK Economic Outlook forecasts that the UK economy will achieve growth of 1.1% next...
Rebecca Eels, a senior associate in the Bath office of national law firm Stone King, has been appointed to the board of a membership organisation representing more than 300 family mediators in England and Wales. The Family Mediators Association (FMA) also supports the education, training and high professional standards of mediators. Rebecca, pictured, a...
National commercial property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) has appointed a new director to its growing South West valuation division. Jonathan Barnett, pictured, has joined LSH from the Bristol office of Christie + Co, the national firm of valuers, where he spent more than 15 years. He has a particular specialist knowledge of the...
Monday November 25 Final: Cerillion Interims: Cake Box Holdings, D4t4 Solutions, Sirius RE, Sysgroup, Thruvision Group Economic announcements: BBA mortgage lending figures, CBI distributive trades surveys Tuesday November 26 Finals: Compass Group, Paragon Group, Ten Life, Treatt, UDG Healthcare Interims: Augmentum Fintech, Cranswick, Draper Esprit, GB Group, Design Group, Imimoble, LXI REIT, Schroder Real,...
Low-cost airline easyJet is to announce new routes from Bristol Airport within the next few weeks following the acquisition of take-off and landing slots formerly owned by defunct travel group Thomas Cook. The airline, the largest operator from the airport, paid £36m for the six summer slot pairs and one winter slot pair at...
Bath media group Future hailed the past 12 months as a “transformative year” as it revealed a 189% leap in annual pre-tax profits. The highly acquisitive group, which has made a spate of takeovers in the past few years, earned the £12.7m pre-tax profits on sales up 70% at £221.5m in the year to September...
Bath tourist attractions and hospitality venues swept the board against rivals from across Bristol and Somerset in a major awards scheme last night. The Roman Baths & Pump Room won a hat-trick of Golds in the Accessible and Inclusive Tourism, International Tourism an Large Visitor Attraction of the Year categories while the Assembly Rooms...
