Mogers Drewett, the regional law firm with offices in Bath, Wells, Frome and Sherborne, has achieved accreditation under the Law Society’s Wills and Inheritance Quality Scheme (WIQS), demonstrating best practice for wills and estate administration advice. The scheme is designed to help address common risks, errors and inconsistencies that arise in delivering advice and...
Property agency and real estate firm Colliers International has expanded its South West regional office with three new appointments. Business rates specialist Steve Plowman has been appointed as a director, covering the South West and South Wales. He joins Colliers’ rating team with 27 years’ experience spanning retail and mineral valuations. This includes seven...
Ambitious plans for an innovative, London Eye-style tourist attraction that will carry visitors 65m above Bath to give them stunning views across the city and beyond have been revealed this week. Described as a world’s first, the AquEye will feature a single revolving glass observation pod suspended between two slim, carbon fibre masts. The...
A series of free workshops to help businesses keep abreast of the latest health and safety laws is being launched by accountancy firm Monahans at its office in Trowbridge. The first event – Health and Safety for Start-ups – on Tuesday September 29 will focus on what start-ups and small firms need to know...
A former Army officer who worked on peace-keeping missions with NATO in Kosovo and Iraq has launched a business to help resolve conflict on an altogether different battlefield – the workplace. Felix Spender, who also helped gain the release of over 100 hostages captured by Somalian pirates, knows the debilitating effects that change and...
Monday 7 September Interim: SimiGon Finals: Dechra Pharmaceuticals, Green Reit Trading statements: Associated British Foods, Betfair AGMs: Creston, Sepura EGM: Adgorithms Tuesday 8 September Interims: Curtis Banks Group, Gamma Communications, Hilton Food Group, Hydro International, Powerflute Oyj, SQS Software Quality Systems, Stadium Group Finals: Ashmore, Craneware, Frontier Developments, Genus. ISG, McBride, Mucklow (A&J), Redrow...
Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on our weekly e-bulletin. This week Nick Wright, financial director at Andrews & Partners, answers our 10 questions What was the LAST: Film you watched? Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation Book you read? The Wright Brothers by...
Digital ticketing developer ACT (Applied Card Technologies) has been acquired by Japanese IT giant Fujitsu in a multi-million pound deal that paves the way for the UK’s first smartphone-based rail ticket issuing system. ACT, based at Kington Langley, near Chippenham, designs, builds and manages smart transaction systems for retail, tourism, public sector and transport...
Shares in SciSys, one of the area's largest specialist IT firms, rose today after it said it had resolved a potentially damaging funding crisis. In June the Chippenham-headquartered firm, which works with blue-chip clients including Government departments, the BBC and the European Space Agency, warned it was at risk of breaching its banking covenants...
BMT Defence Services, the Bath-based specialist engineering design and technical services firm, has appointed Seamus Brogan as head of business development – ships in service support. His appointment is part of BMT’s response to the increasing trend for MoD to place greater reliance on industry providers to deliver In Service Support (ISS) for UK...
