Two schoolfriends who started their online furniture business aged just 18 are looking for a new phase of international growth after its sales soared to nearly £17m within seven years. Monty George and Dan Beckles launched Furniturebox when they saw a gap in the market for selling furniture online. It expanded rapidly during Covid...
Bath’s first networking group for businesses with a social conscious and organisations that support them is to be officially launched next week. Bath Social Impact Network will be the first of its kind in the wider Bath area and will offer members support to help them flourish through collaboration and idea generation. Launched as...
Bath-headquartered specialist public relations agency Abode Worldwide has appointed former national newspaper journalist Neil Millard as managing director to support its global expansion. Neil, pictured with Abode founder and CEO Jessica Gillingham, joins the agency from Rhizome Media in London, where he spent nearly six years as PR director and then managing director working...
A popular Bath city centre pub is to be refurbished after coming under new management. The Trinity on James Street West will close this Sunday for just over a month while the £185,000 upgrade takes place. Owner Star Pubs & Bars, part of the Heineken UK group, said The Trinity, which has been open...
Each week Bath accountancy firm Pearson May teams up with Bath Business News to bring you the top national finance stories. Industry calls for pause of R&D reforms The House of Lords has expressed concern over some new measures. Click here to find out more UK sets out plans to regulate cryptocurrency HMRC aims to provide clarity for businesses and...
Former Bath and England rugby player John Hall has joined city-based property company Rengen as strategic investment advisor to assist with its continued growth. John, pictured, who won 21 caps with England between 1984 and 1994, is an experienced business leader having run his own sports consultancy and more recently acted as consultant to...
Cohabitation is the fastest-growing family type in the UK. However, many couples do not realise that if they split up there is not an automatic right to financial support. Here I answer some of the most common questions relating to cohabitation agreements. What is a cohabitation agreement? If you and your partner are planning...
Renewable electricity provider Good Energy has launched a new scheme for its customers on Feed-in Tariffs (FiTs) which could earn them more from the power they generate. The Chippenham-headquartered group, the UK’s largest voluntary FiT administrator with more than 180,000 generation customers, piloted the new FiT smart export service in December, with plans to...
Bath businesses can benefit from free soft skills training following new research showing their importance in the modern workplace. Business West, the regional business group that runs Bath Chamber of Commerce, has worked with the West of England Institute of Technology (WEIoT) to launch a new soft skills certificate with modules including digital skills for...
A new associate director and senior surveyor have been appointed to global real estate advisor CBRE’s South West property management team along with a new graduate trainee. Matthew Maxwell joins as associate director after 15 years with property management and building consultancy Workman in Bristol, while Angus McPhail arrives as a senior surveyor having previously...
