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...
Monday 23 December AGMs: Berkeley Mineral Resources, Premier African Minerals EGMs: Raven Russia, SThree Tuesday 24 December Economics: British Bankers’ Association – loans for house purchases data Wednesday 25 December UK Bank holiday – nothing scheduled Thursday 26 December UK Bank holiday - nothing scheduled Friday 27 December Nothing scheduled Monday 30 December AGMs:...
Klaus Heidrich, chief operating officer of Chippenham-based specialist software and IT group SciSys, will assume the role of chief executive on tomorrow, January 1. He will take over from David Jones, who will remain with the group as executive director for the foreseeable future. SciSys chairman Dr Mike Love said: “I would like to...
West accountancy firm Monahans is to stage a webinar dedicated to examining the finer details of Chancellor George Osborne’s recent Autumn Statement. The webinar will be broadcast live on Thursday January 16 at 12:30pm, allowing participants to interact directly with Monahans corporate tax partner Dominic Bourquin, pictured, and ask him questions. The free, 15-minute...
More than 500 jobs were created in Bath’s tourism industry over a nine-month period as a result of campaigns run by Bath Tourism Plus working with the Bath Business Improvement District, new figures show. The campaigns, which took place between June 2012 and February this year, generated £43.7m in consumer spending on trips to...
