West of England commercial law firm Thrings, which has an office in Bath, has strengthened its corporate offering to domestic and international clients with the appointment of Jonathan Morris as partner. Jonathan, pictured, is a highly-experienced corporate solicitor with more than 10 years’ experience of working with businesses listed on the London Stock Exchange’s...
Savills has appointed Chloë Clark as senior planner covering the South West. Chloë, pictured, who qualified as a chartered town planner in 2012, joins Savills from Hunter Page Planning in Cheltenham. Chloë has experience of a range of residential and commercial development projects, as well as urban regeneration and rural conversion schemes for a variety...
Monday 2 March Interim: Swallowfield, Thorntons Finals: Alent, Amlin, British Polythene Industries, Dialight, FBD Holdings, HellermanTyton, Hiscox, Intertek, Keller, PPHE, Senior, Trinity Mirror, Ultra Electronics EGM: Dunelm Economics: Consumer credit, Net lending secured on dwellings, Mortgage approvals, Manufacturing data, M4 money supply Tuesday 3 March Interims: Ashtead Group, Clinigen, ISG Finals: Barclays, Costain, Devro,...
Law firm Withy King, which has its largest office in Bath, has been ranked 42nd in The Sunday Times Top 100 Best Mid-Sized Companies to Work For in 2015 – up from 58th position last year. The firm’s ranking was revealed at an awards ceremony held in London yesterday and will be published in...
Barclays has become the latest blue-chip company to sponsor Business Showcase South West 2015 – the region’s biggest business exhibition which returns for a second year in May. Barclays joins First Great Western and Enterprise Rent-a-car in sponsoring the event staged again at Bristol’s Colston Hall. Following last year’s successful debut as a one-day...
Bath-based Smart Sensors, a pioneer of iris recognition technology, has been acquired by FotoNation in a deal that will put its products into millions of devices across the world. Over the past 10 years Smart Sensors, based at Bath's Innovation Centre, has developed tools for iris feature extraction, biometric key creation and fast-matching which...
Mr B & Friends, the Bath creative agency, has harnessed the marketing power of YouTube to launch a new product for builders’ merchant Siniat. The brief from Siniat was to pitch the product – an innovative range of metal partition frames called Bulldog – against more traditional timber products, with a key task to...
Intellectual property law firm EIP is hosting an evening seminar in Bath next month on how to plan an effective innovation strategy from product concept to commercialisation. Speakers include EIP partners Gary Moss, Paula Flutter and Richard Gordon-Brown. They will be joined by James Lamb of Bath-based industrial designers Lamb Industries and Graham Maile...
Bath-based brand agency The House has been nominated for three major industry awards in recognition of its rebranding work for two international clients. The European Transform awards celebrate excellence in rebranding, including strategy, execution, content and evaluation. The House’s work with global sustainable packaging company Petainer has been nominated for best multi-market implementation of a brand development project and best visual identity in...
Law firm Thrings has advised property developer L&R Group on the sale of its upmarket Bath shopping mall Milsom Place to London-based TIAA Henderson Real. The £26.1m deal marked the latest stage in the relationship between Thrings, which has an office in Bath, and L&R which began in 2006. Since then Thrings has provided...
