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As we approach the end of another eventful year for business, Phil Smith, managing director of Business West – the regional organisation that runs Bath Chamber of Commerce – looks back at the highs and lows of 2017. After a tumultuous 2016, many of us were perhaps expecting 2017 to be something like the...
West of England accountancy and financial planning group Old Mill’s longest-serving employee, receptionist Di Hale, has retired after 41 years. Di, pictured, 69, joined the firm in 1976 when it was called Berkeley Hall & Co with offices on the High Street in Shepton Mallet. At the time the firm had just...
Obsolete office space in Bath city centre has been transformed into luxury holiday and short-term let apartments in a move that will strengthen the city’s high-end tourist offering. The redevelopment of 4-5 Westgate Buildings by Bath-based property developer Kersfield has created 17 upmarket studio and one-bedroom apartments arranged over three floors above a Tesco...
Keynsham-based estate agency and property group Andrews’ chairman Jim Glover is standing down next week after serving two terms in the post over a period of six years. He will be succeeded by Steven Esom, who has had a long career mainly in the retail sector. During his time in the role, Jim...
Bath-based commercial property developer HPH has completed an extensive refurbishment of its Chippenham office scheme Bewley House and now has 2,680 sq ft of high-quality space to let. The 21,485 sq ft town centre building, pictured – the former headquarters of North Wiltshire District Council – was acquired by HPH in 2000 and...
Tenants have been signed up for four units at a new retail scheme in Radstock five months before it will be finished – leaving just one still to let. Contractors moved in onto the former Charlton’s Timber Yard on Frome Road at the end of last month – with handover to the new occupiers...
Monday December 18 Interim: Goodwin Trading update: Hunting Tuesday December 19 Interims: Carnival, Micron Tech, FedEx Wednesday December 20 Interims: General Mills, Bath Bed and Beyond, Blackberry Thursday December 21 Interims: Nike, Accenture Friday December 22 Economic announcement: GDP (Q3, final)
National property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) has boosted its South West building consultancy division with the appointment of David Bridges as an associate director. David, pictured, arrives after six years in LSH’s Northampton office, where he worked across the full spectrum of building consultancy services. He joined the firm as a graduate in...
West of England insurance broker Jelf has become the first sponsor of an upcoming contemporary circus show in Bath designed to encourage audiences to engage with their emotions and explore complex issues around love and mental health. The show is being staged next month by newly formed Emotive Circus Arts. The Bristol-based circus company...
