Bath-based specialist lending group 1pm’s half-year sales have surged by more than 50% as demand for finance from small and medium-sized businesses continued to soar. The acquisitive group, which achieved revenue growth of 52% to £7.99m in the six months to November 30 with pre-tax profits up 23% to £2.05m, said it continued to look for further...
Upmarket car retail group Dick Lovett is to create 150 jobs at a new flagship Jaguar Land Rover dealership in West Wiltshire. The firm, which has a string of dealership along the M4 selling marques such as Porsche, Ferrari and BMW, has acquired a four-acre greenfield site at Hampton Park West, south of Melksham,...
Confidence levels among property and construction professionals in Bath and across the South West are the second highest in the UK, according to a new report from accountancy, investment management and tax group Smith & Williamson. Only professionals in London and the South East are more optimistic about their prospects, the firm’s annual survey...
Minuteman Press Bath – the UK’s largest Minuteman franchise – has started the new year by extending its range of cutting machines. The firm has become the first in the UK to acquire a state-of-the-art Valiani Optima V 250 flat-bed cutting table, which has allowed it to perform short-run cutting in-house. The Italian-built machine,...
Bath entrepreneurs are being invited to attend the second meeting of The Royall Wealth Club, the innovative West-based community of forward-thinking individuals, on Monday. The club, which covers Bath and Bristol, was launched last October to bring together successful people from all walks of life to meet, share and develop their personal goals around wealth,...
Annual turnover at Bath-based building firm Halsall soared by 34% to £26.7m last year as it continued to grow into a major player in the regional construction industry. Halsall, headquartered on the Bath Business Park at Peasedown St John, said the opening of an office in Exeter and a mix of housing, construction, and care...
Time is running out for Bath firms to enter the prestigious South West Fairtrade Business Awards. Applications for the hotly contested awards, which are free to enter, close on January 31. Now in their fifth year, the awards champion organisations across the region that put ethical responsibilities at the heart of their business and...
Specialist lender Aldermore has made two senior appointments to its growing South West and South Wales team. Jamie Cullen, who takes up the post of field-based residential relationship manager, has 12 years’ experience in financial services with NatWest and TSB, where he worked as a bank manager and area manager for mortgages. More recently,...
Bath PR firm Creatrix has started the year by launching a new website and blog. Designed and built by the company’s in-house team, the new site signals the beginning of what it expects to be a busy year for its team and also for Bath and the wider region. The firm, now in its...
Bath-based Care Planning Services has appointed lawyer and former Parliamentary adviser Sarah Clarke as business development manager. The firm was set up as a joint venture nearly three year ago by Stone King solicitors and Money Wise Independent Financial Advisers – both with offices in Bath – to provide joined-up legal and financial advice to help...
