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Investment group BGF has appointed Georgie Stratton to its growing South West team. Georgie, pictured, has taken up a direct origination role focusing on sourcing new investments and bolt-on acquisitions for portfolio companies across BGF’s Bristol, Reading and Cardiff offices. She joins from the Bristol office of accountancy group PwC, where she spent two-and-a-half years...
New support for firms forced to close by law because of coronavirus restrictions by Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been welcomed by Business West, the organisation behind Bath Chamber of Commerce. The scheme, under which the government will pay two-thirds of the wages of staff working for these firms, was announced on Friday. It begins...
More than 9,000 businesses are being contacted by Bath & North East Somerset Council to help them find out if they will be charged to drive in the city centre when its delayed Clean Air Zone is launched next March. Firms will also be told if they can get financial support to enable them...
Some of Bath’s top lawyers and the firms they work for have earning top billing in The Legal 500, the leading annual guide to law firms and solicitors in the UK. While the directory’s South West section is dominated, as in previous years, by Bristol’s large national and international firms, a number of lawyers...
Bath’s firms are being invited to take part in a public project to fill the city’s streets with giant bunting made from their artwork and designs in the run-up to Christmas. The competition has been launched by the city’s Business Improvement District (BID) and printing firm Minuteman Press Bath, who see it as a...
As the seventh month of working from home approaches and the season starts to change, Mogers Drewett HR consultant Lucy Cotterell offers some guidance and tips aimed at helping managers to ensure they can support their team’s health and wellbeing. With the Centre for Mental Health charity predicting that up to 10m people (almost...
Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, has launched a directory service to help signpost firms to vital advice, opportunities and support services. Back to Business is an evolution of Business West’s highly successful Trading Through Coronavirus platform, which has been visited by more than 100,000 businesses across the South West. It has been launched...
Bath-based Event Store, one of the UK’s top datatech firms, has received a strategic investment in a deal described as transformational for the industry. Event Store’s EventStoreDB has been a market leader in event sourcing and event-driven architecture used by developers since its launch in 2011. It will use the investment from Qualasept Holdings (QH) – based...
An historic business that has worked with the food industry for more than 120 years is beginning a new phase of growth after refinancing with HSBC in a move handled by regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming. Shepton Mallet-based Framptons, which makes food packaging and egg products, will now be able to take advantage of...
