Bath business leaders have reacted to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Autumn Statement. Ed Rimmer, pictured, chief executive officer of Bath-headquartered alternative funder Time Finance, welcomed the business tax relief. "What businesses needed from today’s Autumn Statement were conditions for growth and while there is clearly more to be shared on the Chancellor’s measures to boost...
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has delivered his Autumn Statement. The key points were: The statement included 110 measures to boost the economy by £20bn a year, according to Mr Hunt. All alcohol duties frozen. Benefits to go up by 6.7% next year, based on the inflation rate for September. Increase in State pension by 8.5% to...
Bath-headquartered Andrew Brownsword Hotels has strengthened its management team by creating four new regional general manager roles. The family-owned group, which owns 13 properties around the UK including The Bath Priory, pictured, said the general managers would oversee additional properties within the group and drive forward business. The group’s hotels also include the award-winning...
Bill Vasilieff, the founder and chief executive of Bath-based financial services firm Novia Group, has died suddenly, it was announced today. One of the city’s highest profile business leaders of recent decades, Bill, pictured, who was 68, was a proud Scotsman and lifelong Bath Rugby supporter. Under his leadership, Novia became a major backer...
Bath legal and financial planning firm Mogers Drewett has become one of the first businesses in the South West to be certified as carbon neutral. A string of green initiatives introduced over the past year have enabled the firm to offset 100% of the amount of carbon it generates. Mogers Drewett, which also has...
Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on our weekly e-bulletin. This week Lucy Cotterell, human resources consultant at law firm Mogers Drewett, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? The Boogeyman (as it was Halloween!). A jump-scare movie, but not...
Bath-based L&C Mortgages, the UK’s largest fee-free broker, is to move its head office into the city’s recently opened Newark Works development in a major success for the Bath Quays regeneration area. L&C described its relocation to the former industrial building, pictured, as marking an exciting new chapter for the firm, underlining its position...
A trailblazing scheme aimed at funding innovative creative tech projects from the Bath area has been launched for the fourth year running. The Studio Innovation Fund has backed a range of pioneering projects ranging since its start – last year these included using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create art and building low-tech robots from...
Global property consultancy Savills has relocated its Bath office after 35 years in the same building. The firm, which has a team of residential and rural property experts in the city, now operates out of 2,500 sq ft of renovated and reconfigured space in a Georgian building on Milsom Street, pictured. London-headquartered Savills opened...
International healthcare group Alliance Pharma has appointed two new non-executive directors to strengthen its board and support its growth strategy. The Chippenham-headquartered business, which owns a portfolio of consumer healthcare products ranging from stomach ulcer treatments to anti-dandruff shampoo, said Eva-Lotta Sjöstedt and Richard McKenzie would bring significant experience to group. Alliance holds...
