Bath businesses were today hit by the snowfall which caused chaos across the region. Bus operator First took all its vehicles off the road, including park and ride services. Bath and Bath Spa Universities were closed along with most of the area’s schools. At Bristol Airport all flights were grounded until around 2pm. Several...
Business and financial advisory firm Grant Thornton has appointed Allister Weir as a director in its South West tax team. Allister, pictured, will lead the firm’s corporate tax advisory and compliance practice across the region. A history graduate from the University of Birmingham, Allister has 12 years’ corporate tax experience with a Big Four...
What value should a business place on its corporation reputation? In the latest of Bath Business News’ weekly Expert Panel series, Linda Donaldson, director at Bath-based Geometry PR, provides the answer. Having a good reputation is something every business craves. Being known for providing a quality service or product is one thing, but building...
Some 58% of South West manufacturers expect to increase sales over the next six months, up 7% on the last quarter and 10% higher than in the same period last year, according to the latest South West Barometer from the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS). Manufacturers’ confidence is further reflected in an appetite for investment with...
Radstock-based print and mail company CFH has acquired the shares and assets of Print For Business (PFB), a £4.5m turnover print and mail business based in Slough. The acquisition is CFH’s second in the past 12 months. A year it took over FST Technologies, a print and mail business based in Livingston and East Kilbride,...
Free legal advice clinics are being offered to small and medium-sized businesses considering exporting their goods and services. Bath-based law firm Withy King will be providing free one-to-one advice clinics during UK Trade & Investment’s Export Week, which runs from November 12 to 16. The firm’s technology and media partners, Jessica Bent (pictured) and...
Passengers on the first bmi regional service from Aberdeen to Bristol Airport were met by a band of bagpipes as they disembarked today. The airline has launched a twice daily direct jet service linking the South West with the Scottish city – one of the first new routes announced following bmi regional’s acquisition by...
Central Chippenham Partnership (CCP), the joint venture between two major property investment funds (Aberdeen Property UK Retail Parks Trust and Ashtenne Industrial Fund), has revealed dates for a community consultation exhibition to invite feedback from the community on its emerging plans for substantial investment and regeneration of a 54 acre site, adjacent to Chippenham...
The Regional Growth Fund (RGF) is a £2.4bn Government fund to which businesses across England can apply for grants and loans. The RGF, which was launched in 2011 and will run until 2015, supports projects offering significant potential for sustainable economic growth and which will create new jobs – and safeguard existing ones –...
Jane James, managing director of Chippenham-based community health and social care group HFH, has stepped down from the board of the Swindon & Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) due to an increasing workload at HFH. This has meant that she has been unable to play as full a part as she wanted in making...
