Bath-based wealth management firm Epoch has been acquired by Brewin Dolphin in a deal that will give the national investment management and financial planning firm its first office in the city. Epoch managing partner Barry Newbury and his 37 staff will transfer to Brewin Dolphin along with its clients. Epoch’s Queen Square office will...
Business passengers using Bristol Airport have helped it achieve its best-ever scores for customer satisfaction in a major national survey. The airport gained its highest results in three areas in the prestigious ACI UK Airport Service Quality (ASQ) Survey – overall satisfaction, business passenger satisfaction and the arrivals passport process. Bristol also ranked highly...
Former Bath Rugby players Ed Jackson and Olly Barkley are inviting the city’s firms to support a not-for-profit organisation Ed has set up following a severe spinal injury that left him paralysed from the neck down and unlikely to ever walk again. Ed sustained the injury in 2017 while diving into a friend’s swimming...
Drinkers in bars in Hong Kong are to get the chance to sample sparkling cider made by a small Somerset drinks firm in a traditional – and rarely used – method. Shepton Mallet-based Pilton Cider produces its cider through the artisan method of keeving, which means that no water or sugar is added. Instead,...
A rare chance to move into a business unit on a popular industrial estate has come about six months after it became full. The Woodland Industrial Estate in Westbury, owned by Bath-based commercial property firm HPH, became fully let last November when independent Land Rover and Range Rover specialist Broad Lane Land Rovers relocated...
IT bootcamp Mayden Academy has launched a funding scheme to encourage more women to embark on careers in coding. The scheme will offer female students a 70% reduction in course fees on the academy’s Full Stack Track – an intensive 16-week training course for aspiring developers from non-tech backgrounds. The course is designed...
