Construction consulting firm Voloco has doubled its workforce and achieved annual sales growth of 80% after expanding its services this year. The firm, which now employs eight staff, also moved to larger offices in Marshfield from its previous serviced accommodation at Aztec West, near Bristol. Voloco provides bespoke flexible and responsive services such as quantity...
Partners&, the recently launched chartered insurance broker with an office on the outskirts of Bath, has appointed two new client partners as it continues to build its team. Based at Dyrham, Partners&, which counts Chris Jelf, the founder of the Jelf insurance group among its directors, describes itself as a new style of insurance...
Environmental development firm Engain has helped deliver a project to upgrade the iconic cable car station at the top of the Rock of Gibraltar while also protecting its famous Barbary apes and other wildlife. Experts from the Frome-based firm, which specialises in projects involving the environment, ecology and climate change, were called in by...
1pm, the Bath-based independent specialist finance provider, has changed its name to Time Finance in a move it said reflected it becoming a unified brand that delivers a comprehensive financing solution to small and medium-sized UK businesses. The rebranding follows the recent completion of a ‘buy-and-build’ phase of 1pm’s strategic expansion, it said. The...
Historic buildings at the centre of a major town centre regeneration scheme will be opened to the public for the first time in more than a decade when the site stages a Christmas market. The owners of Innox Mills, a 10-acre brownfield site in Trowbridge, have teamed up with The Anonymous Travelling Market, the...
Each week Bath accountancy firm Pearson May and Bath Business News team up to bring you the top national finance stories. Party on? How to keep the Christmas spirit alive Does the tax break still apply to Christmas parties in 2020? Click here to find out Clock ticks towards 2019/20 self-assessment deadline The 2019/20 deadline is on or...
Logistics group Wincanton’s focus on the eCommerce market has landed it another major contract with a multi-channel retailer – the UK’s largest garden centre operator Dobbies. The Scottish firm, which has 68 stores across the UK, is the latest in a stream of retailers to sign up with Wincanton since it adopted a bigger...
Two vacant offices in Bath’s Laura Place - one of the main settings in Jane Austen’s final book Persuasion - are to be sold at auction next week. The offices, along with two unoccupied flats in the same three Grade I listed buildings, will go under the hammer with a guide price of £4m-plus. Acquired by their current...
A third of South West firms still do not know if they will be impacted by Brexit with less than four weeks to go to the end of the UK-EU transition period, according to a new survey. At the same time 46% are worried that Brexit could have a bigger impact on them than...
Monday December 7 Final: Hardide Interims: Imimobile, Ted Baker, VP Economic announcements: Halifax house price index, Retail sales Tuesday December 8 Finals: Numis Corporation, Renew Holdings, Zytronic Interims: Begbies Traynor, GB Group, SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust, Solid State, ULS Technology, Vianet Group Wednesday December 9 Finals: PCF, Victrex Interims: Creightons, Duke Royalty, SDI Group, Stagecoach Thursday December 10 Finals: Character Group,...
