Monday September 17 INTERIMS Iofina, Networkers International FINALS Allergy Therapeutics AGMS Aberdeen Private Equity Fund Ltd. Sterling Part Shares, Albion Prime VCT, Albion Venture Capital Trust, City of London Group, Downing Absolute Income VCT 2, Turbotec Products Tuesday September 18 INTERIMS Good Energy Group, Surgical Innovations Group, Work Group FINALS Wilmington Group AGMS Mortice...
Chippenham-based communications systems provider Solar Communications has been named as one of the UK’s fastest-growing hi-tech businesses. The firm appears at number 50 in the Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 rankings for the first time. The firm has attracted five of its largest 20 customers within the past year and has enjoyed average...
The leadership qualities and business policies needed to navigate today’s vital corporate responsibility issues are to be explored at an exclusive conference next month. The exclusive event, the latest in the Board 2020 seminar series, will look at how, in a rapidly-changing environment, businesses should present themselves to the world. It will pose the...
Around 500 of the region’s senior business figures are expected to attend this year’s CBI South West annual dinner in November when the guest speaker will be veteran journalist and BBC world affairs correspondent John Simpson. The event, sponsored by Barclays, has established itself over many years as one of the most important dates...
Farmer Michael Eavis’s Worthy Farm, best known as the home of Glastonbury Festival, has taken another step towards total sustainability with the installation of a second solar roof. The dairy farm and its herd of 400 cows already have one of the UK’s largest private solar arrays on one of its cowsheds, nicknamed the...
Staff from Bath law firm Withy King have raised more than £1,300 for Children’s Hospice South West by cycling 136 miles over two days. The team started out at the charity’s head office near Bristol before riding on to Wiltshire Air Ambulance in Devizes and then finishing in Oxford at Helen & Douglas House....
TheAgency, the rapidly-expanding Bath-based integrated creative agency, has been appointed by natural weight loss aid Slimsticks to spearhead its advertising and marketing communications ahead of a national roll-out. Slimsticks, a natural product which helps weight loss by reducing the body’s appetite, appointed model and former Big Brother housemate Imogen Thomas, pictured, as its brand...
Bath employee benefits specialist Fidelius is holding a free breakfast seminar to explain the implications of the impending overhaul of UK pensions. Fidelius’ co-founder and employee benefits director Iain Fox will discuss the change to auto-enrolment – which requires firms to put eligible employees in a suitable workplace pension scheme. The seminar, which is...
Bath author and life coach Julie-Ann Blackmore is launching a series of stress management seminars in the city aimed at business people who need help in managing their busy schedules. The seminars, called Stress Management for Busy People, will provide guidance to help individuals work less and achieve more through relaxation and stress-free productivity....
Half-year sales and pre-tax profits have fallen at Chippenham-based specialist drugs firm Alliance Pharma after sales of its Deltacortril steroid were hit by a new competitor and changes in doctors’ prescribing trends. Sales in the six months to June 30 were down 10% to £22m which pushed won pre-tax profits during the period from...
