Bath’s small and medium-sized businesses are being urged to take advantage of grants which can make them greener while also saving them money. But they need to hurry as applications for the grants close on June 25. The Green Business Grant scheme is run by the West of England Combined Authority (WECA), which covers Bath...
Stowe Family Law, the UK’s largest specialist family law firm, has opened an office in Bath, its 16th across the country and third in the West of England. The opening coincides with a 95% increase in the number of people seeking information about divorce from the firm over the past year, triggered by the...
The Festival of Nature, the biggest free event of its kind in the country, comes back in Bath and Bristol this weekend after a reduced programme last year. The week-long festival, which runs from this Saturday, June 5, to the following Saturday, will include a multitude of virtual and in-person events along with the...
Mei-Ling Huang has been appointed as chair of Bath-headquartered Royds Withy King in line with a new governance and management structure at the fast-growing law firm. The firm, which employs around 520 people across its offices in Bath, London, Oxford and Swindon, has introduced a board-level partnership committee to oversee its strategic growth and...
Monday May 31 Economic announcement: Nationwide house price index Tuesday June 1 Finals: Biffa, Deepmatter Group Interims: Gooch & Housego, Tekmar Group Trading announcement: Centralnic Group Economic announcement: PMI manufacturing Wednesday June 2 Finals: Bloomsbury, Schroders Real, Whizz Air Economic announcements: M4 money supply, BRC shop price index, Mortgage approvals, Consumer credit Thursday June 3 Finals: Braemar Shipping, Discoverie Group, NewRiver REIT,...
Specialist pharmaceutical firm Vectura, which has its roots in a spin-out from the University of Bath, has agreed to be taken over by global private equity giant Carlyle for £958m. The approach by Carlyle has been approved by Vectura’s board. Chairman Bruno Angelici said while the firm’s directors remained confident in its long-term fundamentals,...
