Bath-based alternative financial services group Time Finance has become an accredited lender under a government scheme to help businesses recover from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The group, which specialises in asset, loan and invoice finance products, is now able to support small and medium-sized firms looking for additional funding by providing loans and...
Public relations consultancy Clearly has launched a project for young people to help businesses in its home city of Bath tackle climate change and increase positive social impact. In what it believes is the first venture of its kind for a UK PR firm, Clearly has committed £5,000 to fund the research, development and...
Brand design agency Touchpoint Design, which has worked with key organisations in the city such as VisitBath and Bath Festivals, has undergone a rebrand itself and now has a new name, The Co-Foundry. The agency, founded by Sue Bush in 2014, said the new brand reflected its mission to work collaboratively with creative and...
Bath-based landscape architecture firm Grant Associates is to lead the design work for a new public open space that will be the centrepiece of the groundbreaking Brabazon development in North Bristol. The largest new urban public park to be created in the South West for 50 years, the six-hectare Brabazon Park, pictured, will be...
Bath-based Wessex Water has been named as the top performing water and sewerage company in a survey of customer ratings. The customer measure of experience (C-MeX) was introduced by industry watchdog Ofwat last year to assess how both customers and the wider public rate each company. Wessex Water’s C-MeX score came from two independent...
Swedish flat-pack furniture retailer Ikea has extended its contract with logistics group Wincanton to operate two of its UK customer distribution centres. Chippenham-based Wincanton, Britain’s largest third-party logistics business, will now run the centres in Medway, Kent and Harlow, Essex, for a further five and two years respectively. The centres serve Ikea customers across...
Bath accountancy firm Pearson May and Bath Business News team up with each week to bring you the top national finance stories. Sweeping EU VAT reforms to affect online retailers Three reforms to the EU’s VAT rules take effect from July 1 Does this affect you? Find out here Furlough scheme begins winding down as scheduled Chancellor Rishi Sunak...
The corporate finance team at Bishop Fleming, the regional accountancy firm with an office in Bath, has advised an independent records management business on an acquisition that has made it one of the top firms in its sector. Secure Data Management, based in Kemble, near Cirencester, had already double its number of client records...
An incredibly light material that can reduce aircraft engine noise to little more than that of a hair-dryer has been developed by researchers at the University of Bath. The meringue-like insulation weighs just 2.1kg per cubic metre – making it the lightest ever manufactured. Researchers from the university’s Materials and Structures Centre (MAST) believe...
National law firm Stone King has promoted four staff based in its Bath headquarters to equity partners. Andrew Banks, Jean Boyle, Sarah Lane and Helen Tucker will join their fellow equity share members in shaping the direction of the firm, which also has offices in Bristol, Birmingham, Cambridge, Leeds and London. The equity group is responsible for the firm’s strategic business direction, succession and sustainability, as...
