Mid-market private equity firm LDC’s South West team has completed three deals with a combined enterprise value of over £175m during what it called a “stellar six-month period” while also stepping up its support for local good causes. At the same time it has supported its existing portfolio in making significant steps to deliver...
Regional accountancy and advisory firm Bishop Fleming is to bring a specialist Gloucestershire practice into its business as part of its ambitious strategy aimed at doubling its size over the next few years. Integrating the business of Bespoke Tax Accountants will add a base in Cheltenham to its existing seven offices, including Bath, while...
Each week Bath accountancy firm Pearson May and Bath Business News team up to bring you the top national finance stories. Total tax take soars to £310.9bn Income Tax and Inheritance Tax see the most significant increases. Click here for more details HMRC delays PAYE direct debit service The service will now launch next month. Read more here...
Regional accountancy firm Milsted Langdon, which has an office in Bath, has welcomed 16 new starters as it continues a history of supporting trainee accountants that stretches back more than three decades. The latest recruits join the firm’s expanding team of professionals across the South West who are supporting the practice’s growing client base. The...
Highly experienced tax specialist Chris Watts has appointed as an associate director in regional accountancy firm Old Mill’s capital tax advisory team. A qualified member of the Association of Accounting Technicians, Chartered Institute of Taxation and Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, Chris, pictured, has 26 years’ experience in the industry, with particular expertise in...
Law firm Thrings has appointed four new partners and promoted five other lawyers as it continues its commitment to nurturing talent across the firm. Three senior associates are among those promoted to partner – Kathryn Bew and Charlotte Dooling, who are both based in its Bath office and work in the family and real estate teamsrespectively,...
Monday September 26 Final: Finsbury Food Group Interims: Likewise Group, CPP Group, Devolver Digital, Immotion Group, Lunglife, Concurrent Technologies, Microlise Group, Next Fifteen Communications, Xpediator, Spaceandpeople Tuesday September 27 Final: Transense Technologies Interims: Tinybuild, The Mission Group, Personal Group Holdings, Diaceutics, Animalcare Group, Mortgage Advice Bureau, Nahl Group, Digitalbox, ECSC Group, Ergomed, Barr (A.G.), Yu Group, Serica Energy,...
Business groups covering Bath and the West of England this afternoon largely approved of many of the measures in Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget – but the political reaction was less favourable. Business West, the region’s largest business group and the organisation behind Bath Chamber of Commerce, said the announcements would go some way to easing...
Areas in the West of England could become investment zones aimed at driving economic growth and unlocking land for housing under a scheme announced today by Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng in his mini-Budget. Businesses in the zones would benefit from lowering taxes and ‘liberalised’ planning frameworks, according to the Treasury. Mr Kwarteng, pictured, said firms in...
The £9.3m restoration of Bath’s Cleveland Pools, the oldest surviving public lido in the UK, has been completed following a 15-month project that included bringing all machinery, building materials and equipment to the site by barge. The meticulous work on the 207-year-old Georgian site was overseen by main contractor Swindon-headquartered Beard Construction, lead designers...
