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 Victor da Cunha, chief executive of Curo Group, answers our 10 questions What was the LAST: Film you watched? I watched Dawn of the Apes recently on pay-per-view. Surprisingly good, although...
The new Chippenham Campus of Wiltshire College has reached a significant milestone with a traditional ‘topping-out’ ceremony of the £21m state-of-the-art building. The symbolic event, which dates back to ancient times, traditionally marks the end of the initial construction phase of a building’s frame – and in Chippenham Campus’s case it was conducted in...
A competition has been launched to find Bath’s happiest workplace – and staff working for the city’s forward-looking employers are being urged to enter. The contest is being staged by workplace and interior design consultancy Wylde IA , which wants to know exactly what sets some of Bath’s offices apart from its humdrum, boring...
Bath-based Anthem Publishing, which was launched 12 years ago by three former Future Publishing executives, has won the industry’s top award for independent operators. The firm collected the prestigious Professional Publishers Association (PPA) Independent Publishing Company of the Year 2014 trophy at the PPA’s recent Independent Publishing Network Conference. The award, which was contested...
The corporate team at Bath law firm Withy King has advised the shareholders of Bradford-on-Avon based PSV (UK) on its sale to Breedon Aggregates, the UK’s largest independent aggregates business. Withy King helped to negotiate the deal on behalf of shareholders Glyn Woolley and Ed Reed. PSV (UK) owned the sole and exclusive rights...
Keynsham-based estate agency and property group Andrews has picked up four awards at the prestigious Estate Agency of the Year Awards, including silver in the Best Large Estate Agency category for the second year running. The firm, with offices across the south of England, was commended by the award judges for reviewing all systems,...
Bibby Financial Services, the UK’s largest independent invoice finance provider, has boosted its South West sales and operations teams with the appointment of six new staff. The new recruits include four business development managers, a head of operations and a relationship manager. They will be based in its Bristol office and cover a region...
Bath-based Epoch Wealth Management has appointed six new staff as it expands its support team to help manage growing client demand for its specialist financial planning services. Tom King, Gemma Honeybun, Roman Moore, Lesley Kondratowicz and Jaime Long will support the senior team at Epoch, which has also appointed experienced independent financial adviser Ed...
Businessmen James Eades and Andrew Harwood have combined their skills to set up an IT strategy company after meeting through a networking club run in Bath. The pair met two years ago at NRG Business Networks, which stages monthly lunch meetings, and begun sharing business ideas. James, who runs Systemagic, the IT support specialists...
Bath-based digital supply chain management firm Actual Experience has helped telecoms industry regulator Ofcom compile a major report which debunks the view that slow broadband speeds are holding back the economy. Instead, the quality of the broadband is far more important for the majority of users, Ofcom concludes. As a result it has called...
