Monday January 6 Trading update: Caledonia Investments Economics: Services PMI Tuesday January 7 Trading update: Costain Group, Dunelm Group, Topps Tiles Economics: New car registrations Wednesday January 8 Trading update: Domino’s Pizza Group, Ferrexpo, Galliford Try, J Sainsbury, Persimmon, Tarsus Group, Robert Walters Economics: No UK data scheduled Thursday January 9 Trading update: Centamin,...
Businesses across the West are being warned for the possibility of flooding as gale-force winds and rain batter the region. The Environment Agency has issued a series of warnings and alerts with firms operating in low-lying areas along the River Avon particularly vulnerable to being caught up in the storms and high tides. The...
The farm agency team at national property consultancy Carter Jonas, which has offices in Bath and Wells, has completed its most successful year ever, handling more than 18,000 acres of land with a combined asking value of more than £185m. The figures reflect the continued strength of the farmland market and the high regard...
Some of the Bath area’s best-known business figures – and some who are lesser known – have been recognised in today’s New Year’s Honours list. Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud, pictured, who lives in a 15th-century farmhouse near Frome, has been honoured for services to sustainable living and energy saving with the MBE. Mr...
GreenSquare, the social housing group with an office in Chippenham, has been placed among the top five housing associations in the UK. It is the only South West-based housing association to be included in the list, compiled by leading industry magazine 24housing and the Housing Quality Network (HQN). GreenSquare came in at number five...
Bath-based Novia Financial Holdings has sold its Novia Investment Services joint venture to partner Aegon UK, part of one of the world’s largest life insurance and pensions groups. The deal, for an undisclosed sum and subject to regulatory approval, means development work on Aegon’s website Aegon Retirement Choices will be taken in-house. Novia Investment Services...
Bath Business Improvement District’s night marshal scheme has been hailed a success by the city’s top health chief. Director of public health for Bath and North East Somerset Dr Bruce Laurence spent a Friday evening with the marshals shortly before Christmas to see for himself how they work to improve safety during the city’s...
Chippenham-based renewable electricity supplier Good Energy is taking legal advice following a challenge to its plans to build a 28 megawatt (MW) solar energy site in East Dorset. The firm, which received planning consent for the project in November, said it understood a claim had been submitted to the Administrative Court for a judicial...
Intellectual property law firm EIP has moved into a new office in Bath to accommodate further planned expansion. EIP relocated from Circus Mews to an office at Westpoint in James Street West following rapid growth and success for the firm internationally. It now employs 12 people in Bath having almost doubled its staffing in...
Bath Business News wishes its readers, subscribers and advertisers a very Merry Christmas. We will be back this Friday, December 27, with the best business news from Bath, including a look ahead to next year from Business West. Our free e-bulletin returns on Tuesday, December 31, with the most authoritative round up of business...
