Regional estate agent and property group Andrews has made its largest dividend payment to shareholders in 14 years – giving its pioneering charitable trusts a £1m boost. When founder Cecil Jackson Cole set up the Keynsham-headquartered business in 1946 he structured it to share a minimum of 35% of its profits each year with...
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Two regional accountancy firms with offices in Bath have moved up a prestigious national league table for the sector. Bishop Fleming, which operates Bath’s largest accountants’ office, has risen by one place from 30th to 29th in the Accountancy Age Top 50+50 rankings while MHA Monahans also moved up one slot, from 58 to...
Annual pre-tax profits at Bath-based specialist lender 1pm have shot up by 93% on the back of a move to widen its markets. The £7.9m profit was achieved on a 78% increase in sales to £30m for the year to May 31, some 31% of which was organic growth. The group’s combined gross lending...
Specialist IT group SCISYS has secured work worth £2m on a project aimed at improving bus services in London through the use of emerging technology. The Chippenham-headquartered group, whose expertise spans transport, defence, media and space, is to provide software design, development and support services to Transport for London (TfL) for timetabling and scheduling...
The Gainsborough Bath Spa has again been awarded three prestigious placings in the latest Condé Nast Traveller Readers’ Travel Awards, which rank the world’s best hotels, resorts, cities, islands, airlines and cruise lines. The five-star hotel was ranked second in Top UK Hotel Spas category, ninth in Top UK Holiday Hotels and also included...
Bath’s American Museum in Britain has been renamed the American Museum & Gardens and given a new brand identity by city-based design agency Touchpoint in moves aimed at attracting a wider audience. The new garden is the first stage of an ambitious plan to boost visitor numbers to the 57-year-old museum at Claverton on...
Bath’s County Hotel, which was acquired by city-based hotel group the Kaleidoscope Collection earlier this year, has been rebranded as The Bird, Bath. The new brand aims to give the Pulteney Road property, pictured, a distinctive new personality and coincides with the appointment of former Apex City of Bath Hotel manager Tim O’Sullivan as...
Bath Business School, part of Bath Spa University, has been shortlisted for the first time in the Business School of the Year category of the Times Higher Education Awards 2018 – regarded as the ‘Oscars’ of the HE sector. Bath Business School students take a range of specialist courses in business and management...
The five-star Bath Priory, part of Andrew Brownsword Hotels, has become one of 21 new additions to Relais & Châteaux, the global association of individually owned and operated upmarket hotels and restaurants. The hotel, which sits in four acres of gardens, has 26 bedrooms and seven suites, and boasts a 3 AA Rosette restaurant...
