Helen Witcombe, a personal assistant at Bath-based Epoch Wealth Management, is preparing to scale Africa’s highest mountain in support of children with life-limiting conditions. Helen, pictured, will climb Mount Kilimanjaro to raise much-needed funds for Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW). Her epic adventure will involve travelling to Tanzania next month where she will spend...
Innovative waste management firm Advetec has joined 10 other fast-growing UK businesses on an international trade mission to Abu Dhabi and Dubai to showcase their products and services. Radstock-based Advetec’s pioneering equipment transforms waste into soil or fuel for energy production and is already used across Europe, the US, India, Africa, South America and...
Brewer and pub operator Bath Ales’ flagship beer, Gem, has won one of the most prestigious international brewing awards. The International Beer Challenge considers more than 500 brews from 30-plus countries. As well as receiving a Gold Medal, Gem also scooped the highly-coveted trophy for its category – the Best Ale up to 5% abv – in the view of...
Bristol Airport continued to break its own passenger number records in August by achieving another best-ever monthly total and recording the busiest day in its history. Some 723,000 people used the airport last month as the holiday getaway season reached its peak. On one day alone – August 14 – 25,390 passed through the...
Simon Walshe, an independent financial adviser based in Chase de Vere’s Bath office, has secured a double accolade in his professional examinations for the second consecutive year. Simon gained the highest scores of all South West entrants in the AF3 paper on pension planning and the Best Completion award in Advanced Diploma in Financial...
Two of Bath’s most innovative businesses are to be showcased in a national innovation festival that will put the Bath and Bristol region in the spotlight as one of the UK’s leading hi-tech centres. Cloud pioneer Zynstra and Genius Digital, which collects and analyses data for the TV industry, are among 14 business and...
Monday 8 September Final: Dechra Pharmaceuticals Trading statement: Associated British Foods AGMs: Bacit, Creston EGM: B.S.D. Crown Tuesday 9 September Interims: HaloSource, Hilton Food Group, Safecharge International, Synety Group Finals: Abcam, Hargreaves Services, ISG Trading statements: Dixons Carphone, Fenner, Whitbread AGMs: Oxford Instruments, Pets At Home Economics: BRC sales, Trade figures, Industrial production, Manufacturing...
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 Dr Markas Gilmartin, founding partner of Epoch Wealth Management, answers our 10 questions What was the LAST: Film you watched? Dead Man’s Shoes. It’s a hard-hitting British revenge thriller with a great music score, great acting...
Julie Welch, HR director of Chippenham-based logistics firm Wincanton, has been shortlisted in a major national awards scheme for her long-term efforts to champion diversity and equality in the business. HR magazine’s prestigious Most Influential Practitioner of the Year Award recognises HR professionals who have had the greatest influence in the field of people...
Future, the Bath-based media group currently undergoing a major restructuring, has broken new ground in the industry by launching a promotion giving buyers of its print titles a free digital edition. All issues of its magazines on sale this month will have the option of a free digital edition. No other publisher has attempted...
