Thomas Sheppard, managing partner at Bath-based law firm Thrings, is to move to the newly-created role of executive chairman. Simon Holdsworth, head of the firm’s company commercial team, is to take over as managing partner. As part of the changes Thomas will lead the transformation of the firm’s personal injury (PI) practice into a...
Bath’s Roman Baths have been crowned one of the country’s best tourist attractions in the prestigious VisitEngland Awards for Excellence 2013. Members of the Roman Baths team were officially presented with the silver award in the large visitor attractions category at the glittering awards ceremony held in Manchester on Monday. The Roman Baths –...
NHS foundation trusts are contributing billions to the regional economy, a new report published today by the Foundation Trust Network (FTN) and Barclays says. As provider organisations to the Health Service, foundation trusts such as Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust and Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, care for hundreds of thousands of...
TV show The Apprentice is giving young people a great appetite for business, Nick Hewer, Sir Alan Sugar’s right-hand man on the programme, told West business leaders. Speaking at the annual Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) West of England dinner, he said whenever he spoke at schools and colleges the...
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A £25m fund has been set up for businesses across the West to help develop jobs by matching public and private cash. The West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) will distribute the money which comes from the Government’s Regional Growth Fund. Businesses can apply for grants of between £10,000 and £1m to help...
The film industry is big business and as The Great Gatsby opens at cinemas today, travel companies are hoping to benefit from the boom in interest in the 1920s. Bath Business News Travel Editor ANNE GORRINGE takes a look at what’s on offer… Much of the action and lavish parties in The Great Gatsby...
Company directors in Bath are more likely to be young and female, according to a new report on diversity in the boardroom. The city appears at number six in a new national league table for the number of directors aged under 25 and at number 10 for its number of women directors. According to...
Drugs development firm Vectura has set up a business in China to tap into the country’s growing market for respiratory products. The new company will initially exploit Vectura’s Clickhaler and Duohaler dry powder inhaler (DPI) technology platforms to address current unmet needs in the Asian asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) markets. ...
Nearly a third of West construction firms are at risk of failure in the next 12 months, according to new research. This compares to 25.7% of businesses at risk across all sectors in the region and comes on the back of a fall in UK construction output in the first quarter of this year....
