Tim O’Sullivan has been appointed as general manager of the four-star Apex City of Bath Hotel, which will be the city’s largest when it opens next summer. The £35m, 177-bedroom hotel on James Street West will include a swimming pool, gym, and conference and meeting facilities with a 420-person capacity. It will also create...
Monday 28 November Interims: Kainos, Sirius Real Estate, Trakm8 Holdings Finals: Aberdeen Asset Management, Cerillion AGM: Petra Diamonds Tuesday 29 November Interims: Acal, Cranswick, Digital Barriers, Eckoh, GB Group, Hogg Robinson, IG Design, KCOM, Motorpoint, Park Group, Torotrak, Vp Finals: Countryside Properties, easyHotel, Gooch & Housego, ITE Group, Patisserie Holdings, Shaftesbury, SSP Group, Topps...
Bath-based sex toy retailer Lovehoney is predicting more international expansion next year after achieving a 68% rise in annual pre-tax profits. The firm, which gained a Queen’s Award for International Trade earlier this year, said strong website growth in the UK and in export markets was behind the increase in pre-tax profits to £5.1m...
Jonothan McColgan, director of Bath-based financial advisers Combined Financial Strategies, has been named Financial Adviser of the Year at the 2016 Growth Investor Awards after coming runner-up last year. The coveted awards, now in their second year, are staged by Intelligent Partnership, the UK’s leading curator of education and insights on alternative investments. Jonothan,...
Chase de Vere independent financial adviser Rachel Sartin, who works in its Bath office, has been named the Best Wealth Management Consultant for Somerset at the Women in Wealth Awards 2016. The awards have been created by Wealth and Finance magazine and website to showcase the very best women from across the financial services...
Business printer Integrity Print has acquired a small label printing company that works with toy makers Lego and Hasbro UK. Cardiff-based Alliance Labels now becomes a trading division of Integrity Print, which employs more than 300 people and operates more than 50 presses on its 16-acre site on Midsomer Norton’s Westfield Trading Estate. The...
Profits at Rotork, Bath’s largest manufacturing company, will be 10% higher than expected thanks to the weak pound, it has told shareholders. The advanced engineering firm, which makes sophisticated valves and actuators for the dollar-denominated global oil, water and gas industries, said the fall of sterling since the EU referendum meant its financial results would be...
Hectic acquisition activity at Future, the Bath-based international media group, has paid off, its chief executive has said as she unveiled a big leap in annual operating profits. Zillah Byng-Thorne, pictured, hailed the group’s success in creating a leading global specialist media platform after a major restructuring over recent years during which it also...
Bath-based chartered accountancy firm Pearson May is celebrating raising more than £100,000 for local charities from its popular golf days. Now in their 20th year, the well-supported annual events attract businesses from across the region. More than 25 businesses took part in this year’s event at Cumberwell Park. After the golf, which was won...
SCISYS, the specialist IT group, is to acquire German media software firm Annova Systems for up to €27.83m (£23.8m) in a move that will give a strong international boost to its own media & broadcast division. Chippenham-based SCISYS said the acquisition, which it is funding mainly from a new bank loan, was expected to be...
