A founding partner of Bath-based wealth management firm Epoch has joined an elite group of UK financial planners by becoming a fellow of two leading professional bodies. Dr Markas Gilmartin, pictured, is one of only 80 fellows of the Institute of Financial Planning (IFP), having recently gained a masters degree in financial planning and...
International specialist software company Quality System Solutions has moved its head office to Chippenham to meet its expansion plans. The firm, behind the international cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) software CallPro CRM, has taken a five-year lease on a 2,400 sq ft unit at Lansdowne Court on the town’s Bumpers Farm business park. It...
Rotork, the Bath-based advanced engineering firm, has appointed Martin Lamb as a non-executive director and will make a number of boardroom changes later this month. Mr Lamb, pictured, who took up his appointment today, will sit on the Rotork board’s audit, nomination and remuneration committees. He was chief executive of engineering group IMI from...
Monday 2 June Interims: RWS AGMs: Anglo-Eastern Plantations, Nighthawk Energy, Ruspetro EGM: Acal Economics: Hometrack housing survey, Net consumer credit, Net lending secured on dwellings, Mortgage approvals, M4 money supply, Halifax house prices, Markit UK Tuesday 3 June Finals: BP Marsh, First Property Group, LondonMetric, Pennon Group, Severfield-Rowen, Wyg Trading statement: Wolseley AGMs: Augean,...
Accountancy and financial advice firm Grant Thornton has appointed Paul Rodwell as the new head of financial services advisory for the South West. Paul, pictured, joined Grant Thornton’s financial services group last year as part of its acquisition of Navigant Financial Services UK and brings with him a broad range of experience in advisory...
Women’s clothing brand Rowland’s, which originated in Bath 30 years ago, is to be revived under its original name as its third owner in two years takes control. The firm, which most recently had been based in Trowbridge, has gone into administration twice in as many years. But new owner, fast-growing Swindon online retail...
The Mitsubishi dealership in Melksham has been named After Sales Dealer of the Year at parent group CCR’s annual conference. The dealership in Western Way is one of 11 operated by CCR across the South of England. Melksham Mitsubishi after sales manager Nigel Carter said: “It’s a real honour and it’s a reflection of...
Eleven Wiltshire firms have received grant funding worth a total of £348,000 from the the county's Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) to spur their growth and boost employment. According to the Swindon & Wiltshire LEP, the funding – the second round of its Gateway for Growth grant scheme – will inject £10m into the local...
Chippenham-based specialist training and development firm Sales Coaching Solutions has teamed up with a pair of mother-and-daughter entrepreneurs to help them grow their recently-launched boutique shopping service for women. PinkBox Boutique, owned by Kerry Gover and Harriet Letheren and based near Devizes, sells products such as colourful scarves, bags and jewellery through its website...
Bath-based media group Future today announced it has agreed to sell a large part of its business to rival publisher Immediate Media for £24m as it revealed it had slumped into the red. Immediate, the UK's third-largest magazine publishers whose titles include Radio Times, is to take over most of the Future’s sport and...
