1pm, the Bath-based specialist lender to growing small and medium-sized firms, is predicting more rapid growth itself after securing another source of new finance. The firm, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market, has negotiated a £14.5m increase in its block discounting facilities with six existing funding partners, taking the...
Business growth consultancy Cool Ventures has appointed experienced business coach Peter Bridge to work on its Bath Business Support Programme. Peter, pictured, a former senior commercial manager with HSBC bank, will advise businesses enrolled on the programme, which provides up to 12 hours of free, intensive support to pre-start businesses as well as small...
Bath Building Society has appointed Tom Leach as finance director designate ahead of current finance director Kevin Gray’s promotion to chief executive later this month. Tom, pictured, joined the society in February as an executive director from Cardiff-based Principality Building Society. In his new role he has responsibility for the society’s accounting, liquidity management...
More than 200 advanced engineering firms and digitally-innovative small and medium-sized enterprises are to gain access to expert support and advice through two new ‘business acceleration hubs’ set up by the University of Bath. The university has been awarded £1.5m from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to deliver start-up, scale-up, open innovation...
A 55% rise in average annual profits over the past three years has put Longleat Enterprises, the Warminster leisure firm that operates the famous safari park and Cheddar Gorge and Caves, among the UK’s fast-growth firms for the first time. The firm, which employs just over 700 people across its sites, appears this weekend...
Air traffic control officers are to receive help with money issues from experts at Chase de Vere, the independent financial advice firm with an office in Bath, under a new partnership formed with their professional body. The Guild of Air Traffic Control Officers (GATCO) represents the interests and opinions of those in the...
Bishop Fleming, the regional accountancy firm with a large office in Bath, was today named as the official sponsor of the Institute of Directors (IoD) South West Director of the Year Awards 2018. Bishop Fleming, which has seven offices across the South West and West Midlands, has teamed up with the IoD to...
West of England accountancy group MHA Monahans has become one of the first in the region to be awarded a licence to undertake non-contentious probate work. The firm, with offices in Bath, Trowbridge, Chippenham, Melksham, Frome, Glastonbury, Swindon and Taunton has received accreditation from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales to...
Local media in Bath quite properly concentrate on Bath itself, the global tourist brand and the economic engine for the area. But the district is called Bath & North East Somerset (B&NES) for a good reason and the business community is very conscious of what the whole patch can do if we use all...
Specialist manufacturer Avon Rubber has sold its US-based hovercraft skirt and bulk liquid storage tank business, for $9.25m (£6.58m). Melksham-based Avon, which makes respirators for military, homeland security and first responder customers as well as rubber products for the dairy industry, said it had been reviewing strategic options for Avon Engineered Fabrications (AEF) –...
