Monday 16 November Interims: Majestic Wine, Schroder Real Estate Final: Diploma Trading statements: FBD, Ithaca Energy, Keller, Taylor Wimpey AGMs: Tanfield, Transense Technologies EGMs: Impellam, Lekoil, Scapa Economics: Rightmove house prices Tuesday 17 November Interims: Big Yellow, blinx, British Land, Carclo, Halma, Homeserve, Intermediate Capital, McKay Securities, Renold, Sepura, Vectura Finals: easyJet, Enterprise Inns...
Bath’s biggest engineering group Rotork today insisted a double-digit fall in recent orders and revenues would not hit its profits. The firm, which makes sophisticated valves and industrial control equipment for the global oil and gas industry, revealed that its order intake in the third quarter dropped 17.2% in period from the same period...
The UK’s first outdoor glow-in-the-dark mini golf course is to open in Bath in the run-up to Christmas. When the sun goes down the Victoria Falls 18-hole course in Royal Victoria Park will be transformed with glowing balls, colourful fairy-lit holes and fog machines throwing mist across the lake. Set against a backdrop of...
A charity that provides support to carers has secured its future in its Bath headquarters as the first beneficiary of a new lending scheme launched by St John's Hospital. The loan means the Carers’ Centre can buy the Lower Bristol Road building, ending uncertainty after the landlord announced he would be sold. Founded in 1996, the Carers’ Centre is the leading provider of...
Bath-based Epoch Wealth Management has donated about £2,000 worth of essential school supplies to children in Malawi. Managing partner Barry Newbury personally handed over the pens, paper and other stationery items plus several reconditioned laptops to Bunda Primary School in the capital Lilongwe. The items were supplied to Epoch at cost by Chippenham-based Woods...
A London-based venture capital firm is highlighting Bath and the West of England as one of Europe’s most attractive places for investment in start-up companies. Since its launch just over a year ago, Downing Ventures has invested almost a third of its entire portfolio in start-ups based in the Bath-Bristol area. Its investments include...
Regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming, which has an office in Bath, has chalked up another year of strong growth to lift it further up the rankings in its sector. Revenues climbed by 5% with fee income exceeding £17.5m for the first time – taking the firm from 38th to 36th position in the UK’s...
Firms from the Bath area that support fair and ethical business practices are being urged to enter a unique business awards scheme. Now in their fourth year, the highly successful South West Fairtrade Business Awards champion firms that put ethical responsibilities at the heart of their business. Last year 76 businesses from across the...
Profits at Chippenham-based supply chain management group Wincanton have fallen despite it winning a raft of new business and successfully renewing a number of contracts. The group blamed the 5.6% decrease in underlying operating profits to £23.5m in the half year to the end of September on two “onerous” home shopping contracts coming to...
Christine Bunting, director at specialist law firm Hyphen, which has a base in Bath, has received one of Prime Minister David Cameron’s Points of Light awards, which recognise outstanding volunteers who are making a change in their community and inspiring others. Christine gained the accolade through her work with Cerebra, a unique national charity...
