The managing director of Bath-based specialist lender 1pm’s asset finance division is to retire following the successful integration into the group of Academy Leasing, which it bought for £12m in 2015. Michael Nolan, who founded Lancashire-based Academy, will continue to serve in his role for his contractual 12-month notice period with a view to...
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 Sue Marchant, a director of business growth consultancy Cool Ventures, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? The Martian with Matt Damon. It was entertaining and an...
Thousands of businesses across Bath & North East Somerset are to be connected to an ultrafast full-fibre broadband network that promises some of the UK’s fastest speeds. The project is the result of a £10.3m investment deal signed by publicly funded body Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) with Oxfordshire-based ultrafast broadband provider Gigaclear. It...
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As we approach the end of another eventful year for business, Phil Smith, managing director of Business West – the regional organisation that runs Bath Chamber of Commerce – looks back at the highs and lows of 2017. After a tumultuous 2016, many of us were perhaps expecting 2017 to be something like the...
West of England accountancy and financial planning group Old Mill’s longest-serving employee, receptionist Di Hale, has retired after 41 years. Di, pictured, 69, joined the firm in 1976 when it was called Berkeley Hall & Co with offices on the High Street in Shepton Mallet. At the time the firm had just...
Obsolete office space in Bath city centre has been transformed into luxury holiday and short-term let apartments in a move that will strengthen the city’s high-end tourist offering. The redevelopment of 4-5 Westgate Buildings by Bath-based property developer Kersfield has created 17 upmarket studio and one-bedroom apartments arranged over three floors above a Tesco...
Keynsham-based estate agency and property group Andrews’ chairman Jim Glover is standing down next week after serving two terms in the post over a period of six years. He will be succeeded by Steven Esom, who has had a long career mainly in the retail sector. During his time in the role, Jim...
Bath-based commercial property developer HPH has completed an extensive refurbishment of its Chippenham office scheme Bewley House and now has 2,680 sq ft of high-quality space to let. The 21,485 sq ft town centre building, pictured – the former headquarters of North Wiltshire District Council – was acquired by HPH in 2000 and...
Tenants have been signed up for four units at a new retail scheme in Radstock five months before it will be finished – leaving just one still to let. Contractors moved in onto the former Charlton’s Timber Yard on Frome Road at the end of last month – with handover to the new occupiers...
