Bath businesses are partnering with the police, banking sector and specialists to spearhead a new crackdown on fraud in the South West. They have come together to re-launch the South West Fraud Forum (SWFF), which is dedicated to helping prevent businesses and individuals becoming victims of the crime. The organisation will be holding regular...
Bath-based customer data specialist Edit, which works with blue-chip clients such as Jaguar Land Rover, Tesco Bank and Shell, has been bought by a recently launched marketing services group for £13.35m. The deal is the first in a planned series of acquisitions by London-based Salocin to build a data-powered group focused on marketing...
Time Finance, the Bath-headquartered alternative finance provider, is to grow its invoice finance lending division after renewing a £50m funding facility with RBS Invoice Finance (RBSIF). Time Finance said securing the new three-year deal was an important next stage in its ambitious growth plans and allow it to support more firms through invoice...
Quartet, the community foundation covering Bath and the West of England, has launched its annual Surviving Winter appeal with a warning that this year it will be needed more than ever. With many households already struggling to make ends meet, sharply rising fuel and food prices rise and a squeeze on incomes means they...
A Bath-based HR consultancy set up by two friends from university is in the running for a major national industry award. Kirsty Senior and Georgina Read launched CitrusHR in 2009 after becoming frustrated with the nine-to-five-5 corporate lifestyle. Twelve years later their mission to deliver more creative HR solutions for small businesses has...
The 60-plus staff at cyber security and technical consultancy SA Group have taken ownership of the business, making it the latest in the growing trend for such moves. Westbury-based SA Group’s founders Steve and Adella Jackson, who started the business in 2009. decided transfer it to a Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) under their...
Paperless cloud accountancy firm Purple Lime is celebrating its fifth birthday by taking on two new team members. The Corsham-based firm has made the appointments following a year of growth, including client wins. Hannah Morris has joined as an assistant management accountant while David Pritchard has arrived as a senior manager, bringing with...
National accountancy firm Grant Thornton has expanded its South West and Wales corporate finance advisory team after what it described as an exceptional period of deal activity. Adam Hughes has joined the team from NatWest Structured Finance to lead its debt advisory function while two young dealmakers, James Smart and Thomas Bew, have also...
Time Finance, the Bath-headquartered alternative finance provider, has expanded its national sales presence with the arrival of Jonathan Johnson as a business development manager in its invoice finance team. The firm said the appointment reflected its ambitious growth plans to expand while helping more businesses access the funding they need to grow and...
Bath firms thinking of exporting or taking their international expansion to the next level can sign up to a week of special events hosted by experts. The Department for International Trade (DIT) will stage the first International Trade Week next week, with events – most of them virtual – including business and sector-led activities,...
