Bath branding consultancy The Agency has been appointed by Somerset specialist technology manufacturer Gooch & Housego as its lead planning, creative and digital agency. Ilminster-based Gooch & Housego, a $100m global business producing a range of fibre optic technologies, operates in more than 20 sectors with a high-profile role supplying critical systems and components...
Bath-based architects Stubbs Rich’s plans for a 35,000 sq ft Volkswagen dealership in Exeter have been given the go ahead. The showroom will be the first building to be constructed on the city’s Matford Green Business Park and will include a 22-car showroom and a 15-bay workshop, plus a large used car display area,...
Bath software and IT services company IPL has launched a rural apprenticeship scheme. Called Bright, the three-year programme is looking for school leavers from a predominantly rural background who have a keen interest in IT and want to kick-start a career in the thriving industry while working towards their NVQ. Bright apprentices will join...
Cloud Direct, the Bath-based cloud broker, has been named as one of the UK’s top organisations for people management practice in the inaugural Investors in People (IiP) Awards. The fast-growing firm, which has helped 4,000 organisations grow by embracing cloud IT, has been shortlisted in the Employer of the Year (2-49 employees) category. Based...
Shares in Chippenham-based specialist software and IT group SciSys, best known for its work in the space sector, dipped today despite it issuing an upbeat statement at its AGM. The group, which supplies highly-complex systems to the global space, defence and media industries, told shareholders it was making further profitable progress and was on...
The managing partner of West law firm Thrings, which has a major office in Bath, has urged the region’s business leaders to do more to support young people’s commercial ambitions. In a speech to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) in Bristol, Simon Holdsworth, pictured, called on bosses to provide...
Sharon Hunter, the head of the lettings department at property agency Carter Jonas’ Bath office, was among the winners at the UK property industry’s largest and longest-running awards. Sharon was one of only five people from across the country to be highly commended in the People category of the ESTAS (Estate and Lettings Agents)...
Overseas businesses are looking to snap up West food and drink firms as the sector enjoys a rapid recovery, new research shows. According to data released by business and financial advisory firm Grant Thornton, the number of deals involving food and drink businesses shot up by a third in the first quarter of this...
West Wiltshire chartered surveying firm Kavanaghs has appointed Alison Williams to its commercial team. Alison, who heads the firm’s commercial agency team in its Melksham and Trowbridge offices, joined from Alder King’s Swindon office, where she was an associate. In her new role she will be managing commercial lettings, disposals and acquisitions in the...
Husband and wife team Matt Lewis and Federica Marconi have opened a Spanish-style tapas bar in Chippenham with support from Barclays. Los Amigos, which boasts a Spanish themed menu, décor and ambience, is an expansion of the couple’s popular coffee shop in the town’s Market Place. By taking over a former shop unit next...
