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Ahead of the Agenda: The Week Ahead

June 10, 2018
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Monday June 11 Final: Games Workshop Economic announcement: UK trade balance, industrial & manufacturing production (April) Tuesday June 12 Finals: Oxford Instruments, Halma Interim: Crest Nicholson Trading Updates: Capita, Bellway, Ted Baker Economic announcement: Employment data Wednesday June 13 Final: Mulberry Interim: Inditex Economic announcement: CPI (May) Thursday June 14 Finals: Aveva, Majestic Wines...

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The LAST WORD: Catherine Brabner-Evans, external affairs officer, The Woodland Trust

June 8, 2018
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The LAST WORD: Catherine Brabner-Evans, external affairs officer, The Woodland Trust

Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the area’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Catherine Brabner-Evans, external affairs officer for The Woodland Trust, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST:   Film you watched? It’s a bit too sunny in the evenings to be indoors watching movies. Summer’s...

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Govt’s commitment to regional airports welcomed as it signals green light for Heathrow expansion

June 8, 2018
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Govt’s commitment to regional airports welcomed as it signals green light for Heathrow expansion

Bosses at Bristol Airport have welcomed the government’s confirmation of support for regional airports as part of its controversial decision to give the green light to a third runway at Heathrow.   Transport Secretary Chris Grayling told the House of Commons earlier this week that as well as expanding Heathrow, he also wanted to...

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Happiest Workplace Awards give enlightened Bath firms reasons to be cheerful

June 8, 2018
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Happiest Workplace Awards give enlightened Bath firms reasons to be cheerful

Bath firms that go the extra mile to ensure their staff are cheerful and fulfilled are being invited to enter the annual South West Happiest Workplace Competition.   The brainchild of workplace and interior design consultancy Wylde IA, the contest has successfully championed enlightened businesses since it was launched four years ago.  This year it...

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Upmarket furniture store beds down in Bath despite uncomfortable time for UK high streets

June 8, 2018
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Upmarket furniture store beds down in Bath despite uncomfortable time for UK high streets

National luxury bedroom furniture brand Feather & Black has opened its first store in Bath, demonstrating the city’s continued ability to attract upmarket retailers despite widespread turmoil on UK high streets. Feather & Black has moved into a vacant store on Northumberland Place, pictured, previously occupied by fashion retailer JOY, transforming it into a...

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‘Quiet confidence’ in future leads BuroHappold to appoint 13 new partners

June 8, 2018
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‘Quiet confidence’ in future leads BuroHappold to appoint 13 new partners

BuroHappold, the Bath-headquartered international civil engineering practice, has appointed 13 new partners in a move it said showed “quiet confidence” in its ability to deliver high-quality, award-winning projects across the globe. It is the highest number of partners chosen in a single year by the firm, which over the past 40 years has been...

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Bath directors in running for region’s top awards for boardroom excellence

June 8, 2018
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Two Bath directors will go head to head with some of the South West’s top bosses next week in one of the region’s most prestigious business award schemes. Former Google industry head Jenny Cowderoy and Joanna Chavasse, the founder of childcare business Freckles, are among the finalists in this year’s South West Director of the...

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Specialist training group RTS gears up for more growth with senior appointment

June 8, 2018
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Specialist training group RTS gears up for more growth with senior appointment

Automotive training expert Jonathan Buckley is in the driving seat to steer the rapidly expanding events division of learning and development agency RTS Group after joining as account director. Jonathan, pictured, who has spent the majority of his career in automotive training and events, joins the business based at Notton, near Chippenham, from South...

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Insolvency expert joins MHA Monahans’ Bath office business recovery team

June 8, 2018
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Insolvency expert joins MHA Monahans’ Bath office business recovery team

Regional accountancy firm MHA Monahans has appointed insolvency practitioner Dan James as a senior manager in its Bath office. Dan, who has more than 15 years’ experience helping companies and individuals in financial difficulty, joins the firm’s specialist business recovery and insolvency team after 10 years at rival Begbies Traynor’s Bath office. He has...

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Royds Withy King promotes two associates in its Bath office to partner

June 7, 2018
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Two lawyers who began their careers as trainees at Bath-headquartered regional firm Royds Withy King have been promoted to partner.   James Worrall and Mark Hambleton were both named as ‘associates to watch’ in the latest edition of legal sector guide Chambers.  James, pictured right, is described by clients as “commercially minded with good...

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