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...
Bath law firm Mowbray Woodwards is celebrating the success of Samantha Taylor, who has just qualified as a chartered legal executive. Samantha, pictured, joined Mowbray Woodwards in 2013 as a trainee chartered legal executive to work in its private client team specialising in wills, probate and estate planning, estate administration and lasting powers of...
Two lawyers with extensive experience of the healthcare and social care sectors have been appointed to the Bath office of regional law firm Royds Withy King as partners. James Sage and Hazel Phillips have joined from Burroughs Day in Bristol, bringing with them a long track record of advising care providers, pharmacies, dental practices...
Nationwide Building Society is to open a branch in Glastonbury, where the last bank closed earlier this year, to pilot new ways of using technology to give people access to financial services. Glastonbury, with a population of around 9,000 and a healthy tourist industry, has been without a traditional bank branch since Lloyds pulled...
Regional accountants Bishop Fleming, which has an office in Bath, said Philip Hammond’s first Autumn Statement was a clarion call to industry to be more productive and to make the UK ‘match fit’ for a bumpy Brexit ride ahead. It said the Chancellor’s first fiscal statement promised billions of government money for houses, roads,...
Bath businesses will welcome Chancellor Philip Hammond’s focus on investment in the Autumn Statement, particularly in areas where growth pressures are highest, according to Business West, the organisation that runs Bath Chamber of Commerce. Phil Smith, pictured, managing director of the region’s largest business organisation, described the statement as “a sombre, not flashy, affair”...
Business organisation the CBI “warmly welcomed” Chancellor Philip Hammond’s commitments to boost research and development, housing and infrastructure. But it said these must be acted on. Director-general Carolyn Fairbairn, pictured below, said: “The Chancellor has prioritised a pragmatic down payment on future productivity growth. “His emphasis on R&D, housing and local infrastructure will help...
Chancellor Philip Hammond his presented his first Autumn Statement: Here are the main points, as announced: Office for Budget Responsibility says growth this year will be 2.1%, 1.4% next year (down from 2.2%), 1.7% in 2018 (down from 2.1%), 2.1% in 2019/20 (down from 2.1%) and 2% in 2020/21, (down from 2.1%). As expected, the...
An innovative asthma treatment developed by Chippenham-based specialist pharmaceutical firm Vectura is to go on sale in the US in deal that could earn it more than $1m. Under the licensing agreement announced this week, the VR730 product – which uses Vectura’s groundbreaking dry powder inhalation technology – is to be manufactured and commercialised...
