Each week Bath Business News and Pearson May bring you the top national finance stories. MPAA reduction to be reinstated Money purchase annual allowance (MPAA) reduction to feature in Finance Bill 2017. Read the full story here Complying with personal data rights Businesses holding personal data need to ensure their procedures are fit for...
Paul Seymour has joined Bath’s biggest accountancy firm Bishop Fleming as its new marketing director. Paul arrives from the Bristol office of national law firm Bond Dickinson, where he worked for six-and-a-half years as senior communications manager and, more recently, marketing and communications manager. At Bishop Fleming – one of the UK’s fastest-growing firms of accountants –...
Bath marketing firm Frontline Display International, which counts global blue-chip companies such as Heineken among its clients, is predicting further growth after being acquired by a major London-based agency. Big Group’s takeover of Frontline extends its reach into the South West and follows its acquisition two years ago of Newbury-based m4, which specialises in creative...
Friska, the ‘feel-good food’ café group started by two University of Bath graduates, is aiming to double its number of outlets and expand in cities across the UK after receiving a £3m investment. The Bristol-based firm, founded Griff Holland and Ed Brown, pictured, who met while studying economics at the University of Bath, now operates...
Bath’s largest accountancy firm Bishop Fleming has welcomed the brakes being put on Making Tax Digital for business, after the government admitted it needed more time. Sole traders, partnerships and landlords with income above £85,000 were to be forced into keeping their accounts in a digital form and filing quarterly updates to HM Revenue...
Monday 17 July Trading statement: Rio Tinto AGM: DP Aircraft EGM: Inspired Energy Economics: Rightmove house prices Tuesday 18 July Finals: Ideagen, IG Group, NCC Group Trading statement: BHP Billiton, dotDigital, Experian, Wizz Air Holdings AGMs: Ambrian, Assura, Bloomsbury Publishing, British Land, Dairy Crest, Firstgroup, N Brown, Scapa Group, Summit Therapeutics EGM: Magnolia Petroleum...
International Trade Secretary Liam Fox will today tell West of England businesses that there has never been a better time to start exporting, with the help of his department. Latest government figures show an 11% surge in the value of overseas sales made by businesses from the region, with more than 8,600 firms now...
Bath-based fibre-optic infrastructure firm TrueSpeed Communications has received £75m from insurance giant Aviva’s global asset management arm to speed up the roll-out of its network to a further 75,000 homes and businesses in the region. TrueSpeed was set up in 2015 to deliver a fibre-optic infrastructure network across South West. It provides residential and commercial...
The £60m University of Bath-led world-beating automotive research centre, which will help develop the next generation of ultra-low emission vehicles, is to go ahead after receiving nearly two-thirds of its funding. The IAAPS – Institute for Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems – pictured, will also create an innovative automotive industry cluster in the South West...
Good Energy, the Chippenham-based renewable energy firm, has become embroiled in a power struggle with arch-rival Ecotricity that has sparked a surge of interest in the green sector. Ecotricity, 100% owned by hippie-turned-entrepreneur Dale Vince, pictured below, has amassed a 25.3% stake in Good Energy over the past year – and now wants Mr...
