I’m A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here star Martin Roberts is urging businesses to support the Mayor of Bath’s charity concert in April as he prepares to host the event. Property expert Martin – who also co-presents the BBC’s Homes Under the Hammer – was among the guests at a...
The Bath and Wiltshire branch of the Institute of Directors (IoD) has appointed Guy Tullberg, managing director of Tracklements – the UK’s leading speciality condiments business – as its new chair. Guy, pictured, has significant experience of the challenges and opportunities for today’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). He has guided his Wiltshire-based family business through...
More than 100 uniforms previously worn by staff at Bath care company Butterfly Home Help are to make a difference at two African health centres following a novel link-up. Butterfly recently decided to refresh its brand by changing its colour schemes – a move that resulted in 121 peach-coloured uniforms becoming surplus to requirements....
Outdoor toy specialist Wicked Vision UK has appointed Bath PR agency Highlight to manage its public relations, social media and e-marketing. Highlight will support Wicked as it fuels the latest outdoor craze for ‘bubble football’ with the global launch of its Socker Bopper Body Bubble Ball. Wicked is the first to launch a body...
Monday 20 February Interims: City of London Investment Group, Petra Diamonds Finals: Bovis Homes, Hammerson Trading statements: Hogg Robinson, Vedanta Resources Economics: Rightmove house prices, CBI trends – total orders, selling prices Tuesday 21 February Interims: BHP Billiton, dotdigital, Galliford Try, Green REIT, Netcall, Vernalis Finals: Anglo American, HSBC, InterContinental Hotels, John Wood, Synectics,...
The West of England is experiencing a creative boom. From its trailblazing animators and film makers to its innovative marketing agencies, brand consultancies and graphic designers, the rich pool of talent in the region is going from strength to strength. To celebrate and showcase the world-leading work of this sector, Bath Business News and its...
Connect Education & Care, the Trowbridge-based firm formerly known as The Consortium, is to be sold for £56.5m – some £18.5m more than its current owners bought it for less than five years ago. The business has supplied books and stationery to generations of schoolchildren across the South West since it was launched in...
By Donna Kehoe, the Bank of England’s agent for the South West of England What should we make of the prospects for the UK economy just over a month into what promises to be another eventful year? On the face of it there’s much to be positive about. Growth has proved surprisingly resilient since...
Regional chartered accountancy firm Monahans has appointed Anne Gardner-Thorpe as senior tax manager, based primarily in its Bath and Taunton offices. Anne, pictured, has joined from the Bristol office of national accountancy, investment management and tax group Smith & Williamson, where she was a senior manager in the private client tax team. She has...
Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, is calling on Chancellor Philip Hammond to use his Spring Budget next month to bolster confidence amid fears that higher inflation and skill shortages will combine to hit West of England firms hard. While latest official jobless figures show unemployment continuing to fall, the strength of the...
