Avon Rubber expects its annual pre-tax profits to be at the upper end of current market expectations, the Wiltshire-based manufacturing group said today in a trading update. The year to September 30 concluded strongly for both its divisions – protection & defence, and dairy – it said, while net debt at year end was...
Bath University is set to get a boost from Chancellor George Osborne’s promise of £50m to commercialise graphene – the super-hard new material that could revolutionise British industry. The Chancellor used his speech at the Conservative Party Conference to pledge that the cash will go towards creating a new hi-tech hub that will help...
Bath architects Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and consulting engineerings Buro Happold have teamed up to stage a unique event that will bring some of the best designers, directors, artists and thinkers in Europe to the city. The not-for-profit event, called Power in Space, will encourage debate among international designers and directorsand allow delegates to...
Some 39% of South West entrepreneurial businesses are forecasting double-digit growth over the year, led by organic and new product development, while 38% are stockpiling cash, according to the latest entrepreneurship survey by business advisors Deloitte. Despite the ongoing economic instability, the survey reveals that 56% have achieved revenue growth in line with or...
Independent financial advisers Monahans Financial Services has been ranked among the UK’s top three firms for innovation in using technology to provide excellence in customer service. The firm, part of Monahans chartered accountants, collected the accolade in the recent Aberdeen UK Platform Awards, which recognise businesses that have enhanced their client service and investment...
A further £75bn is to be pumped into the economy by the Bank of England to protect it from the euro crisis and avoid it sliding back into recession. Some £200bn has already been put into the economy through quantitative easing (QE) – buying assets such as government bonds, in an attempt to boost...
Bath’s £5.5 million development of its Roman Baths is set to go head-to-head with others from the rest of the UK, Europe, Africa and the USA, to be named best in category and achieve the ultimate accolade Global Project of the Year at the RICS Awards grand final 2011. The project was crowned winner,...
Smith & Williamson, Bristol, is hosting a finance director briefing between 8.00am – 10.30am on 11 October at its Portwall Place offices. This briefing will provide finance directors and their teams with an overview of the most important and relevant developments in financial reporting and a selection of other topical financial issues to help...
Mergers and acquisitions involving British targets are likely to drop dramatically to their lowest level since the 1990s, new research shows. Some 402 transactions worth a total of £23.8bn have been recorded so far in the third quarter of this year. And with less than two weeks until the end of the three-month period, deal volume...
A record 600,000 passengers have used Bristol Airport’s Flyer bus over the past year – ten times the number achieved during its first year of operation in the late 1990s. The service, run by First in partnership with Bristol Airport, operates between Clifton, the City Centre, Temple Meads station and the airport. All 12...
