Keynsham’s striking new civic centre and the innovative Lee Centre at Bath’s Ralph Allen School have been named among the region’s best new buildings by RICS (the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors). They appear on the shortlist for the annual RICS South West Awards, putting them head to head with major new schemes such...
Bath Ales and Bath Racecourse have signed a three-year sponsorship deal which will make the brewery, pub and restaurant group headline sponsor of the racecourse’s annual beer festival while its beer will be official guest ale of the course. Bath Ales, based between Bath and Bristol at Warmley and best known for its flagship...
Regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming, which has an office in Bath, has continued to shrink its carbon footprint despite growing its staffing levels. The firm has added 75 people to its workforce and won more 1,000 clients over the past year yet its average consumption of electricity and gas per employee fell by more...
Chase de Vere, the Bath-based firm of independent financial advisers, has been named as one of the Top 25 Most Admired UK Companies for 2015. The accolade from eprivateclient, the leading website and news service for private client practitioners, is based on an analysis of comments from leading firms of lawyers, accountants, trust companies...
Three new routes to key European cities are to be introduced from Bristol Airport as it continues to expand its network on the Continent. The flights to Paris, Düsseldorf and Nantes will be operated by bmi regional. The move comes as Ryanair prepares to add direct flights to cities such as Cologne and Stuttgart...
Bath firms are greeting positive economic news, such as the latest fall in unemployment, with “faint alarm bells rather than celebratory cheers”, according to the region’s largest business organisation. Business West, which runs Bath Chamber of Commerce, said politicians should now focus on the “significant hurdles” that remained to achieving a lasting recovery. Today’s...
Solicitors with tax affairs which are not up to date, including those with undisclosed taxable income, have less than three weeks to notify HMRC of their intention to take part in its disclosure facility. The warning comes from the South West office of accountancy and investment management group Smith & Williamson, which also points...
The South West Innovative Manufacturing forum (SWIM) has been relaunched after the regional office of accountancy and business advisory firm BDO forged a new collaboration with Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking. Lloyds Bank has joined founders BDO and existing partner EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, to drive forward the regional initiative that promotes and celebrates the...
Monday 16 February Finals: Acacia Mining, Fidessa, Hammerson Trading statement: Infinis Energy Economics: Rightmove house prices Tuesday 17 February Interims: Hargreaves Services, Monitise, Sinclair IS Pharma Finals: Brammer, InterContinental Hotels, John Wood Group, Pendragon AGM: Medicx Fund EGM: WANdisco Economics: Consumer price index, Retail price index, Producer prices, ONS house prices Wednesday 18 February...
THE LAST WORD Each week Bath Business News lets a prominent member of the area’s business community have the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Peter Cusick, partner and head of agriculture at commercial law firm Thrings, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Last film you watched? Boyhood (coming-of-age drama,...
