Bath-headquartered alternative lender Time Finance is forecasting that its annual sales and profits are likely to better than expected as its ‘back-to-basics’ strategy reaps rewards. In March the firm, which specialises in asset, loan and invoice finance products, said concentrating on its core products had resulted in faster-than expected growth. Its pre-tax profits soared...
Law firm Goughs Solicitors has expanded its private client team with the appointment of Sarah Loveless as a partner. Sarah, pictured, Sarah joins Goughs, which has seven offices across Wiltshire including in Chippenham, Trowbridge, Melksham and Corsham, from Bath and Wiltshire firm BLB Solicitors, where she spent just over three years, most recently as...
Monahans, the South West’s largest independent accountancy firm, has promoted director Clare Bowen to partner in a move it said reflected its aim of creating an environment where its employees can thrive. The firm, which has eight offices across the region including in Bath, said Clare, pictured, had demonstrated outstanding levels of operational excellence...
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Bath-based housing association and developer Curo has continued to invest in projects outside its home city by beginning work on a new scheme in Weston-super-Mare. The 124-home development at Locking Parklands forms a key part of the regeneration of the former RAF Locking base on the edge of the seaside town, which will eventually...
Nearly 350 business leaders from across the West of England attended last week’s ICAEW regional annual business dinner, where former MI5 Director General Eliza Manningham-Buller was guest speaker. Baroness Manningham-Buller drew on her experiences leading the service through significant change, expansion and scrutiny and urged businesses to embrace diversity of views to become more relevant and effective. The event at...
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Organisations need a diversity of views to be relevant and effective, the former Director General of MI5 Eliza Manningham-Buller told West of England business leaders last night. Speaking at the ICAEW regional annual business dinner, Baroness Manningham-Buller, pictured, drew on her experiences leading the service through significant change, expansion and scrutiny as it dealt with the...
Lightweight car and motorbike wheel manufacturer Dymag is to accelerate the global mass production of its technology after securing investment from a South Korean firm. The funding from advanced materials manufacturer Hankuk Carbon builds on an existing strategic partnership between the two firms. That deal, signed a year ago, aims to mass manufacture Chippenham-based...
A rebound in its European markets and continued growth in others gave Bath-headquartered spectacles designer and manufacturer Inspecs a positive end to 2022, with its chief executive describing it as a year of two halves. The group, which produces a wide range of spectacle frames and lenses, including sunglasses and safety glasses, for markets...
