Property consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle has expanded its Bath team with the appointment of valuation expert Richard Clark. Richard, pictured, has joined as director in the valuation advisory team after a 13-year stint at rival DTZ in Bristol providing commercial and residential valuation advice. He specialises in the provision of valuation advice to banks...
Bath comedy club Komedia has been named Best Venue in Wales and the West in the Chortle Comedy Awards 2013 – the third time it has landed the prize. The awards, which celebrate the best of British comedy, took place at the Café de Paris in London’s Leicester Square and were hosted by Jo...
First Great Western is to continue running rail services between the West and London for another three years under a franchise extension announced today by Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin. The train operator had previously been granted a six-month extension until October following the fallout from the West Coast franchise debacle last year. First Great...
Thrings, the M4 corridor law firm with a major office in Bath, has recruited Jane Oakland as a partner in its corporate team. Jane joins from the Bristol office of rival Clarke Willmott, where she was a corporate partner. She brings more than 20 years’ corporate experience in acquisition and disposal, strategic planning, reorganisation,...
Invest in Bristol and Bath, the recently-formed inward investment body for the West region, is reviewing important leads received at the world’s top property fair. The body created a show-stealing, 50 sq m mural at its stand at MIPIM in Cannes earlier this month to grab attention for the range of opportunities presented by...
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Shares in West luxury leather goods brand Mulberry fell sharply today after it announced weaker-than-expected trading in the post-Christmas period. The Chilcompton-based group, whose bags are regularly photographed on the arms of A-list celebrities, said the fall-off in sales meant revenues and pre-profit for the year ending March 31 were now expected to be...
SciSys, the Chippenham-based specialist IT group, today blamed foreign exchange movements and a reduction in low-margin resale activity for a fall in annual revenue. However, operating profits at the group, which supplies a range of sectors from space and defence to media with high-end systems, climbed 13% to £2.7m despite the 7% decline in...
The Chancellor’s surprise announcement to bring in the Help-to-Buy scheme was welcomed by the property and construction industries – with housebuilders in particular enjoying some rare good news. The property sector in the West picked up on some of the positives – but like most other industries, considered that more could have been done...
They say never let the truth get in the way of a good story but while we can all be guilty of over elaborating a story among friends, when it comes to business it never pays to be liberal with the truth, says Linda Donaldson, director at Bath-based Geometry PR, in her latest Bath...
