Going the extra furlong for its visitors has earned Bath Racecourse another much-coveted award in what has been an historic year for the course. It is celebrating winning the Racing Post Readers’ Award in the annual Racecourse Association Showcase & Awards event, which champions excellence and innovation across the raceday experience. Bath Racecourse’s recently...
Bath-based Epoch Wealth Management has been named one of the UK’s top 100 financial planning firms for the third consecutive year. Epoch is once again included in New Model Adviser’s annual list of the country’s best independent financial advice firms. This puts Epoch in the top 10% of financial advisers nationally. The New Model...
Bath area business leaders have called on Chancellor Philip Hammond to go all out to boost confidence ahead of Brexit as he prepares to deliver his first Autumn Statement on Wednesday. With the economic climate expected to get decidedly chilly next year as the UK works towards leaving the EU, commentators are expecting the...
Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Richard Brooks, Bath-based partner at regional accountancy firm Monahans, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST Film you watched? It was a cartoon film called The Secret Life of Pets...
Monday 21 November Interims: Bonmarche, Mitie, Omega Diagnostics Final: Diploma AGM: Imperial Innovations EGM: Red 24 Economics: Rightmove house prices Tuesday 22 November Interims: AO World, Assura, Babcock International, Big Yellow, CML Microsystems, De La Rue, Halma, Homeserve, Scapa Group, Sepura, Severfield, Solid State, Telecom Plus, UK Mail, ULS Technology, Victoria Finals: Cambria Automobiles,...
Budget airline easyJet is to base a 14th aircraft at Bristol Airport next summer as it continues to grow its route network and increase frequencies on flights to popular destinations. The airline is already the airport’s largest operator with links to 60 cities – giving it a 54% market share. But having introduced new...
Acquisitions, innovation and the weak pound boosted specialist manufacturer Avon Rubber in the year to September 30, with bosses saying it ended the period a more robust business than when it started. The Melksham-based group, which makes gas masks and respirators for the military and emergency services and rubber products for the global dairy...
Bath solicitor Heledd Wyn, from law firm Mowbray Woodwards, has joined organisations representing older and vulnerable people to raise serious concerns around the government’s online tool for creating Lasting Powers of Attorney. A Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs) is a powerful legal document that allows a person to appoint trusted individuals to make important...
Good Energy, the Chippenham-based green energy firm, has launched the UK’s first online marketplace for renewable electricity, giving businesses the power to choose how and where their electricity is generated. Called Selectricity, the scheme is supported and part funded by the government and has already signed up the National Trust, the Eden Project, Community Power...
The search has started for a new chief executive to lead Bath Festivals as the arts organisation enters a period of major change, including launching a new multi-arts festival. The successful individual must be able to lead it through that transformation, engaging wider audiences – locally, nationally and internationally – and redefining what great...
