National luxury bedroom furniture brand Feather & Black has opened its first store in Bath, demonstrating the city’s continued ability to attract upmarket retailers despite widespread turmoil on UK high streets. Feather & Black has moved into a vacant store on Northumberland Place, pictured, previously occupied by fashion retailer JOY, transforming it into a...
BuroHappold, the Bath-headquartered international civil engineering practice, has appointed 13 new partners in a move it said showed “quiet confidence” in its ability to deliver high-quality, award-winning projects across the globe. It is the highest number of partners chosen in a single year by the firm, which over the past 40 years has been...
Two Bath directors will go head to head with some of the South West’s top bosses next week in one of the region’s most prestigious business award schemes. Former Google industry head Jenny Cowderoy and Joanna Chavasse, the founder of childcare business Freckles, are among the finalists in this year’s South West Director of the...
Automotive training expert Jonathan Buckley is in the driving seat to steer the rapidly expanding events division of learning and development agency RTS Group after joining as account director. Jonathan, pictured, who has spent the majority of his career in automotive training and events, joins the business based at Notton, near Chippenham, from South...
Regional accountancy firm MHA Monahans has appointed insolvency practitioner Dan James as a senior manager in its Bath office. Dan, who has more than 15 years’ experience helping companies and individuals in financial difficulty, joins the firm’s specialist business recovery and insolvency team after 10 years at rival Begbies Traynor’s Bath office. He has...
Two lawyers who began their careers as trainees at Bath-headquartered regional firm Royds Withy King have been promoted to partner. James Worrall and Mark Hambleton were both named as ‘associates to watch’ in the latest edition of legal sector guide Chambers. James, pictured right, is described by clients as “commercially minded with good...
