The ‘mini-Budget’ that the government insisted wasn’t, in fact, a Budget at all, came at 9:30am on Friday 23 September and brought with it some significant, unexpected and – in some cases – controversial measures (not to mention a subsequent U-turn on one of the main policy changes announced), writes Pearson May partner Matthew Rutter....
A portfolio manager from a major European asset management group has been appointed to the board of Bath-based advanced analytics firm Actual Experience less than a month after its founding chief executive quit with immediate effect. Harmesh Suniara, who works at Lombard Odier Asset Management (Europe), has joined Actual Experience as a non-executive director....
The organisation behind the Bath’s chamber of commerce has become the first in the country to use a revolutionary new on-line customs tool that can ease post-Brexit complications when exporting to the Europe. Called Genesis, the system validates the origin of goods to make EU customs checks quicker and easier. It was used for...
The Legal 500, the UK’s most-respected directory for the profession, has once again showcased the Bath area’s leading law firms and individuals, recognising them as among best in the region. Aimed at buyers of legal services, the Legal 500 is researched by an independent and expert team, and with four million-plus user visits to its website each...
The full speaker line-up has been announced for the biggest TEDxBath so far. Taking place in The Forum tomorrow, Saturday 15 October, the event is expected to attract up to 1,600 attendees to hear speakers ranging in age from 12 to 82 deliver changing perspectives through mind-opening talks. Organisers say the aim is to...
Bath’s longest-serving retail property agent Mike McElhinney is to join the city office of real estate consultancy CSquared as a partner. Mike, pictured, will specialise in the retail and leisure sectors, working alongside CSquared’s existing team in Bath. He spent more than 26 years with King Sturge (later JLL), working in – and later...
A raft of contract wins and the takeover of a specialist eCommerce fulfilment firm helped revenue drive ahead at national logistics group Wincanton. In a trading update to shareholders the Chippenham-headquartered business also said it was managing to manage inflationary pressures by passing on cost increases to its customers. Revenue for the six months...
The University of Bath has powered up its research and innovation capability by becoming the first UK university to move all possible high performance computing workloads into the cloud. Named ‘Nimbus’, the switch to Microsoft Azure Cloud will rapidly speed up scientific discovery processes and allow researchers to carry out more advanced computationally intensive...
Conservative MPs are going to make life for Prime Minister Liz Truss as difficult as their Labour counterparts did for Jeremy Corbyn when he was their leader, political columnist and broadcaster Ayesha Hazarika has told the region’s business leaders. Speaking at the South West CBI’s annual dinner, she predicted the political waters would get...
Monday October 10 Trading announcements: Sirius Real Estate, Unite Tuesday October 11 Finals: YouGov, SCS Group Interims: Sanderson Design Group, Eneraqua technologies, Smartspace Software Trading announcement: Reach Economic announcements: Retail sales, Claimant count rate Wednesday October 12 Finals: ASOS, Kin and Carta Trading announcement: Novolipetsk Steel Regs Economic announcements: Manufacturing production, Index of services, Balance of Trade, Industrial production, Gross domestic product...
