Each week Bath Business News and Pearson May bring you the top national finance stories. Online traders add £11bn to UK exports Business is booming for SMEs trading on Amazon or eBay. Read the full story here Childcare gap for parents of one year olds Costs skyrocket before child’s second birthday. Read the full...
Shares in SCISYS, the Chippenham-headquartered specialist IT group, soared to a new high this week after it won a €18m (£16m) contract to supply technology to the pioneering Heinrich Hertz satellite-communications project. The group’s space division will provide the ground station control and communications infrastructure for the German national mission as prime contractor –...
Do you own assets such as property or shares in joint names or hold joint bank accounts? Most commonly this will be with your spouse or civil partner, but it may be outside of marriage with a long-term partner, sibling or parent, for example. Have you considered how the ownership of such assets affects...
Monday October 23 Interims: Halliburton Tuesday October 24 Interims: Anglo American, Whitbread, Renault, Lockheed Martin, Caterpillar, Chipotle, McDonald’s, General Motors, AT&T Trading updates: Intu Properties, Bunzl, Ladbrokes, Coral, l Personal Finance, Carpetright, St James’s Place Wednesday October 25 Interims: Fresnillo, Antofagasta, GlaxoSmithKline, Tesla, Visa, Boeing Trading updates: Lloyds, Cobham, Metro Economic announcement: UK GDP...
In a classic David-versus-Goliath smackdown, a US-based musician-turned-programmer has won a protracted legal struggle against the mighty Trump Organization over rights to the ‘iTrump’ trade mark. Tom Scharfield is the founder, CEO and, indeed, sole employee of app developer Spoonjack. A keen brass player, he is the creator of the ‘iTrump’ trumpet simulator app,...
Bath’s newly opened Apex Hotel is a game-changer for the city, allowing it to compete seriously in the conference market for the first time, according to Visit Bath chief executive David James. Speaking at the hotel’s official opening this week, he said its purpose-built conference facilities, which have capacity for 400 delegates, meant Bath could...
