IT support firm Systemagic has appointed Harriet Brooks as operations manager as it maintains the strong growth it achieved in 2017. Harriet, pictured, joins the Bradford on Avon-based firm with more than six years’ experience managing support teams. She arrives from Dyson’s Malmesbury head office, where she led its IT services desk team. She has also...
Alison Edgar – the sales and customer service trainer known as The Entrepreneur’s Godmother – has retained her crown as one of the country’s top 10 business advisers and gained a new title as the UK’s number one adviser in sales and marketing. Alison, pictured, who is also managing director of Chippenham-based Sales Coaching...
Each week Bath Business News and Pearson May bring you the top national finance stories. This week we look at Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Spring Statement. A statement with few new announcements There were a number of updates on growth, borrowing and debt. Find out more here Consultations – business rates revaluation brought...
The board of Castle Combe Racing Club has been boosted with the appointment of presentation skills trainer, commentator and motorsports enthusiast Chris Dawes. Chris, pictured, runs Open Dawes Training – a company providing CPD (continuing professional development) accredited training in public speaking and presentation skills. A lifelong lover of the track near Chippenham...
A company that supplies paper and canvas shopping bags to leading retailers has relocated to larger premises to give it space to continue its growth and install the first digital printer of its kind in the UK. The Paper Bag Company has upped sticks from its base in the Oakfield Business Centre on the...
Bath business experts have been reacting to Tuesday’s Spring Statement, with most pointing to what Chancellor Philip Hammond failed to deliver rather than what he said. The city’s largest accountancy practice Bishop Fleming was particularly hard-hitting in its comments, calling it a “missed opportunity to be bold, imaginative and transformative”, especially as the...
Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, welcomed Chancellor Philip Hammond’s assertion in his Spring Statement that he would continue to “support British businesses” – but it insisted that his actions had to speak louder than words. The £80m pledge to help small firms take on apprentices and the opening up of the construction...
CBI chief economist Rain Newton-Smith said the Chancellor was rightly backing British business to secure the UK’s future prosperity in a new economy. “It’s great to see an upgrade in the state of our public finances and rightly sensible to set more aside for a rainy day with Brexit uncertainty still weighing on the...
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has welcomed Chancellor Philip Hammond’s plea to examine ways to help small businesses deal with the “scourge” of late payment. Chairman Mike Cherry said: “The Chancellor is absolutely right to commit the government to eliminate the scourge of late payments, which place cruel financial pressure on more than...
Key points from today’s Spring Statement: Next spending review will take place in 2019 UK economy grew by 1.7% in 2017 OBR has increased forecast for growth next year but downgraded those for 2021 and 2022 Investment programme of £44bn to raise housing supply to 300,000 a year by the mid-2020s. Extra £1.7bn to...
