Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking’s West complex deal team, which provides specialist advice to mid-market and large corporates on debt-funded transactions across the region, has appointed Owen Vizard as an associate director. He will work alongside director Gavin Reid and will support the Commercial Banking team of relationship directors, which is headed Clive Hetherington. Owen,...
Bath law firm Stone King has appointed experienced lawyers Amanda Watts and Jo Boyle to its growing residential property team. Amanda, pictured, right, with Stone King’s managing partner Steven Greenwood, joins the firm, which also has offices in Melksham, Cambridge and London, from Hertfordshire legal practice Nockolds where she was a partner in its...
Women in Property, the networking and professional development organisation, is to stage events in Bath and Chippenham as well as other areas across the South West as part of a new focus following the election of a new regional chairman. Naomi Chesterman, an associate in the property litigation team at Bristol law firm Veale...
Bath green utility firm 2OC has signed a 20-year deal worth more than £200m with Thames Water to pioneer turning cooking waste from thousands of London restaurants into energy. 2OC is helping develop a £70m combined heat and power plant in East London which will produce 130 Gigawatt hours (GWh) a year of renewable...
Monday April 08 FINALS Christie Group, DDD Group, GLOBO, Polymetal International EGMS Hals-Development JSC GDR (Reg S) AGMS Bank Audi SAL (Audi Saradar Group) GDR (Reg S), IMI, XP Power Ltd. (DI) Tuesday April 09 INTERIMS Victrex FINALS Blur (Group), Camkids Group, Concurrent Technologies, Frenkel Topping Group, Good Energy Group, JKX Oil & Gas,...
Bristol Airport has become the first in Britain to gain WorldHost Recognised Business status, in recognition of its commitment to welcoming visitors to the South West and Wales. WorldHost is a world-class customer service training programme that has already been used to train nearly 1m people worldwide, including tens of thousands of staff and...
Fed up with flip charts, PowerPoint and pie diagrams? Bath Business News is presenting an antidote to business seminars as part of Bath Comedy Festival. This free and unique event is for anyone who has ever dozed off during a motivational seminar. Or been late for a time management session. Chippenham-based performance coach, leadership...
Good design in the built environment is the theme of a Creative Bath talk presented by Gavin Thompson, head of strategic development at Bath-based design engineers Buro Happold. Titled Design Matters – Integrated Visions, the talk will use the stories behind projects which range from small sculptural installations through to the 2012 Olympics. The...
WellBoring, the Chippenham-based charity that drills boreholes for clean, secure water supplies at schools and communities in developing countries, is staging a fund-raising abseil down the Avon Gorge in Bristol later this month. The charity has teamed up with the Rotary Club of Bristol Breakfast Club to organise the event. It has 100 spaces...
Business Secretary Vince Cable is to meet West business leaders on a high-profile visit to the region later this month to discuss the role of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs). The event will look at the impact of LEPs and their standing in the business community since they were launched in 2011. West of England...
