Bill Vasilieff, the founder and chief executive of Bath-based financial services firm Novia Group, has died suddenly, it was announced today. One of the city’s highest profile business leaders of recent decades, Bill, pictured, who was 68, was a proud Scotsman and lifelong Bath Rugby supporter. Under his leadership, Novia became a major backer...
Bath legal and financial planning firm Mogers Drewett has become one of the first businesses in the South West to be certified as carbon neutral. A string of green initiatives introduced over the past year have enabled the firm to offset 100% of the amount of carbon it generates. Mogers Drewett, which also has...
Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on our weekly e-bulletin. This week Lucy Cotterell, human resources consultant at law firm Mogers Drewett, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? The Boogeyman (as it was Halloween!). A jump-scare movie, but not...
Bath-based L&C Mortgages, the UK’s largest fee-free broker, is to move its head office into the city’s recently opened Newark Works development in a major success for the Bath Quays regeneration area. L&C described its relocation to the former industrial building, pictured, as marking an exciting new chapter for the firm, underlining its position...
A trailblazing scheme aimed at funding innovative creative tech projects from the Bath area has been launched for the fourth year running. The Studio Innovation Fund has backed a range of pioneering projects ranging since its start – last year these included using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create art and building low-tech robots from...
Global property consultancy Savills has relocated its Bath office after 35 years in the same building. The firm, which has a team of residential and rural property experts in the city, now operates out of 2,500 sq ft of renovated and reconfigured space in a Georgian building on Milsom Street, pictured. London-headquartered Savills opened...
International healthcare group Alliance Pharma has appointed two new non-executive directors to strengthen its board and support its growth strategy. The Chippenham-headquartered business, which owns a portfolio of consumer healthcare products ranging from stomach ulcer treatments to anti-dandruff shampoo, said Eva-Lotta Sjöstedt and Richard McKenzie would bring significant experience to group. Alliance holds...
Monday November 20 Finals: Compass Group, Diploma, Cerillion Interims: Polar Capital Holdings, Thruvision Group, Big Yellow Group, Ondo Insuretech Q1 result: Seraphim Space Investment Trust Tuesday November 21 Interims: Caledonia Investments, Workspace Group, Cranswick, Accsys Technologies, Schroder Real Estate, Telecom Plus, Trifast, Intercede Group, Eckoh Technologies, AO World Q3 result: AB Ignitis Grupe Trading announcement: CRH Economic announcement: Public sector net...
Low-cost airline easyJet has celebrated hitting the 70m-passenger mark at Bristol Airport as it adds another new route to its network. The airline began services from the airport in May 2001 – six years after its launch by entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou – initially flying to Palma, Faro and Nice. Since then it has become...
Taste of Bath has just turned eight – and to celebrate, we’re sharing eight reasons why buying local is your best bet this Christmas… Better quality – you get what you pay for. At small independent businesses like Taste of Bath, we really care about making sure every single product we sell meets our...
