Bath accountancy firm Pearson May and Bath Business News team up with each week to bring you the top national finance stories. HMRC seeks to remove VAT repayment supplement Tax body warns of potentially ‘devastating’ impact on VAT-registered businesses’ cashflow. Click here for more information Employers told to issue childcare voucher reminder HMRC also implies working parents might be...
Bath-based landscape architecture firm Grant Associates, which last week unveiled its design for this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, has been appointed to a major regeneration scheme also in West London. The long-anticipated waterfront Brentford Project aims to revitalise the suburb’s centre and establish a new retail, leisure and culinary scene, building on its rich...
A University of Bath research group that has helped alter attitudes towards the global tobacco industry and drive changes in government policies has been recognised for its work by the director-general of the World Health Organization. The Tobacco Control Research Group (TCRG) has exposed the industry’s attempts to weaken, block and delay tobacco control...
Britain’s largest organic dairy brand Yeo Valley is benefitting from an ultra-fast, ultra-reliable full-fibre broadband service across its multiple rural sites thanks to Bath-based broadband provider Truespeed. Family-owned Yeo Valley, best known for its range of organic yogurts, previously relied on no slow, unreliable copper (ADSL) phone lines for its broadband needs. Now, after...
Bath-headquartered law firm Royds Withy King has strengthened its residential property practice with the appointment of partner Mark Scott. Mark, pictured, has joined the firm’s London office from Blake Morgan, where he was a legal director and head of its London residential property team. He was previously a lawyer at Mishcon de Reya. Mark...
The opportunities for business growth and expansion through trade are huge. If you're thinking about trading with the EU and other markets, or want to continue trading, there are rules you need to follow for importing and exporting. It can be overwhelming, but the West of England Combined Authority’s Growth Hub is here to...
Monday May 24 Finals: Kainos Group, Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings Tuesday May 25 Finals: Aveva Group, Big Yellow, Calnex Solutions, Electrocomponents, Helical Bar, Hurricane Energy, Speedy Hire, Warehouse REIT Interims: Avon Rubber, Greencore, Ixico, Shaftesbury Economic announcement: Public sector net borrowing Wednesday May 26 Finals: Asa International Group, Biffa, De La Rue, Marks & Spencer, Mediclinic International, SSE...
The chief executive of Future, the fast-growing Bath specialist media group, has praised the agility of its staff after it defied the publishing sector’s gloom to post an 110% increase in half-year pre-tax profits. The highly diversified and acquisitive group, whose titles span TechRadar, PC Gamer and Country Life, achieved the £56.9m profits on sales up 89%...
FlourishZone, the Bath firm aiming to revolutionise the global workplace wellbeing and coaching industry with the use of artificial intelligence (AI), has won a place on the prestigious InvestHorizon European tech accelerator. The move will support growth for the firm’s award-winning ‘deep tech’ wellbeing-at-work solution. Funded by the European Commission in association with EUREKA, InvestHorizon is...
Businesses based at SETsquared, the acclaimed incubator backed by the University of Bath, raised record levels of investment last year despite the coronavirus pandemic’s huge impact on financial markets. Funding from private and public sources totalled £616m, up 40% on 2019. Private investment accounted for 90% of the total raised, with the remainder from...
