Mogers Drewett, the regional law firm with offices in Bath, Wells, Frome and Sherborne, has appointed medal-winning England netball defender Eboni Beckford-Chambers as a legal assistant in its dispute resolution team. Eboni, pictured, who played a key role in the team’s bronze medal finish at the 2015 Netball World Cup, has successfully established the...
Bath-based Epoch Wealth Management has once again been named Adviser of the Year for the South West region by influential industry journal New Model Adviser. The firm beat five other regional finalists to win the prestigious accolade at an awards ceremony in London. The New Model Adviser awards recognise the best financial planning firms...
Bath businesses are being urged to guard against sophisticated new cyber scams that use fake emails to trick finance staff into transferring funds into the criminals’ bank accounts. The warning has come from specialist support firm Priority IT, which has had two of its clients targeted by online fraudsters in this way recently. The...
A shortage of skilled workers in the South West is hitting the region’s construction industry and potentially holding back essential infrastructure and building projects, according to a new report. Some 44% of construction firms in the South West are witnessing a lack of staff with the right skills, triggering above-inflation pay rises, according the...
Business West, the organisation behind Bath Chamber of Commerce, has been named as one of the UK’s best employers for the second consecutive year. Business West, which employs around 200 people at its offices at Leigh Court, near Bristol, and in Swindon, appears in the latest annual Sunday Times 100 Best Not for Profit...
Bath accountancy firm Richardson Swift has strengthened its growing team of tax and business advisers with two new appointments. Rachael Rackham joins the business as a senior accounts manager from Haines Watts in Bristol, where she worked in a senior role advising owner-managed businesses. Rachael qualified as a chartered certified accountant in 2004 having...
Firms across Bath and the West of England ended 2015 on a positive note with higher domestic and international sales, according to the results of Business West’s latest survey. Almost two thirds also said they were confident for the year ahead. But with slightly fewer firms planning to recruit over the next three months,...
A specialist training division set up by independent recruitment company 24-7 Staffing to meet the needs of the healthcare sector is now a fast-growing part of its business. Faced with a problem recruiting fully qualified staff to fill vacancies in care homes, Chippenham-based 24-7 Staffing set up the division in September 2014 to facilitate...
Monday 11 January Trading statements: LHR Airports, Robert Walters, Taylor Wimpey EGM: Telecity Tuesday 12 January Interims: Games Workshop, Ilika Trading statements: Boohoo.com, Debenhams, Greggs, Michael Page International, Saga, William Morrison Supermarkets EGM: MTI Wireless Edge Economics: BRC sales, Industrial production, Manufacturing output, NIESR GDP estimate (December) Wednesday 13 January Final: Shoe Zone Trading...
Each week Bath Business News lets a prominent member of the area’s business community have the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Kieran Thomas, managing director of Trowbridge-based Priority IT, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? I made my way through all the Star Wars films (in...
