Alternative funding specialist ThinCats has appointed Alison Whistance in a senior management role to cover its South West region. Alison, pictured, joins as origination manager, South-West, as the firm gears up for its next period of growth. ThinCats, an online peer-to-peer lending platform that allows investors to make secured loans directly to businesses, recently...
West of England firms’ domestic sales and orders have grown at their fastest rate for two years, while business confidence is at its highest since before the Brexit referendum, according to the latest survey from Business West. The organisation, the largest business membership group in the region, said the findings showed local businesses had...
Monday November 13 Trading update: Taylor Wimpey, Ladbrokes Coral Tuesday November 14 Finals: McCarthy & Stone Interims: FirstGroup, Land Securities, Vodafone, Aveva, Electrocomponents Trading updates: Paysafe, Smiths Group, Cobham, Cineworld, Meggitt, ITV, Bovis Homes Economic announcement: CPI (October) Wednesday November 15 Finals: Fenner Interims: Experian, Premier Foods, TalkTalk, Great Portland Estates, Cisco Trading updates:...
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 Charles Cronin, criminal defence solicitor at Mowbray Woodwards, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Transformers: The Last Knight. Sadly a disappointment following on from the previous...
Bath’s Circle Hospital has been named as the South West’s happiest workplace for its ‘truly-inspiring’ ethos and environment. The Peasedown St John independent hospital beat a strong challenge from shortlisted workplaces across the region to claim the coveted award. The competition, now in its third year, was launched by workplace and interior design consultancy...
Bath’s top coffee spots have been revealed today in the latest edition of the South West and South Wales Independent Coffee Guide. And once again it shows the city punching well above its weight when it comes to indie cafes serving top-notch coffee. Bath boasts nine coffee shops in the guide – making it...
National independent financial advice firm Chase de Vere, which has an office in Bath, has been named as one of top financial planning companies for the eighth successive year. The firm features in thewealthnet Top 25 list, which highlights companies that are best equipped to provide financial planning advice to clients. It is based...
Simon Milner, a director at Radstock-based health insurance broker Lesson Moore, has been named among the industry’s newcomers of the year – at the age of 48. Simon received the honour at the national Health Insurance Awards, where he was up against a shortlist of much younger contenders. Simon achieved the top three finish...
Challenges linked to infrastructure, apprenticeships and Brexit were among the topics discussed by businesses when they met Chippenham MP Michelle Donelan at a roundtable staged by business services organisation Business West. With uncertainty still hanging over the government’s Brexit negotiations, businesses at the event emphasised the importance of agreeing a meaningful transitional deal with...
Winning a Queen’s Award for Enterprise and developing specially branded products have helped push up pre-tax profits at Bath-based sex toy firm Lovehoney by 76% to £9m. Strong website growth in the UK and overseas and significant new product development also played their part, with total sales increasing by 31% to £76m in the...
