Measures announced in Wednesday’s Queen’s Speech to help small and growing businesses and speed up infrastructure projects have been welcomed by Business West, the organisation behind that runs Bath Chamber of Commerce. It also praised the Coalition Government for promising a relatively small number of new Bills in its final year before the General...
Annual profits at Wincanton, the Chippenham-based logistics group, accelerated by more than a fifth to £25.6m in the year to the end of March as its cost reduction measures began to take effect. The 20.2% increase in underlying pre-tax profits was achieved on a 1.1% rise in revenues to just under £1.1bn. Sales in...
Shepton Mallet Cider Mill is aiming to meet spiralling demand for specialist ciders by selling three of its brands in bag-in-a-box packaging. Somerset Snuffler, Natch Special, and Somerset Tree Shaker are the first ciders the firm has produced in this way. The firm aims to capitalise on this summer’s ‘cider season’ and the surge...
Wiltshire-based specialist manufacturer Avon Rubber has won an order worth $33m (£19.6m) from the US Department of Defense (DoD) for 135,000 of its M50 protection masks. The order is an extension of an earlier contract with the Pentagon under which Melksham-based Avon has supplied the masks for use by the US armed forces and...
The development director at GreenSquare, the Chippenham-headquartered social housing and care provider, has received a Winston Churchill medallion for researching affordable housing in the US. Vic O’Brien’s study, undertaken through the Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship, looked at the US’s Low Income Housing Tax Credit system (LIHTC) with a view to seeing if a similar...
The Bath stage of the Tour of Britain cycle ride is to be sponsored by airline KLM and Bristol Airport, it has been announced. The stage – the sixth of eight across the country – takes place on September 12 and is expected to attract thousands of spectators to the city as well as...
Bath-based 1pm, the specialist lender to small firms, has received another £4m to write new business to meet ever-growing demand. The firm secured £2.5m from its banks in April and over the past year has raised a total of £11.3m. The latest funding is made up of a new £3m facility and an increase...
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...
