Invoice finance specialist Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has promoted its South West business director Terry Wolfendale to regional managing director. Terry, who has more than 14 years’ experience in the UK financial services sector, joined BFS in 2010 and has played a key role in its growth and development throughout the South West, achieving...
One of Bath’s prime office buildings, Cambridge House on Henry Street, has begun a substantial makeover and expansion and all is due to be revealed at the end of July. An entire new floor is being built on top of the existing building. Leading property consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle’s Bath office is managing the...
Bath buns and Bath chaps have for centuries been the city’s best-known culinary items – but now a Bath pub hopes to add a new dish to the repertoire. The Assembly Inn has teamed up with local pie makers Lovett Pies to create the Bath Pie – and the response, they say, has been...
West business leaders this afternoon broadly welcomed the emphasis in today’s Queen’s Speech on economic revival and measures to make Britain more business-friendly. But there was concern over some of the proposals for the Coalition’s net round of legislation and a plea for less politics and more action. Phil Smith, managing director of Business ...
Bath’s Dyson Centre for Neo Natal Care and Batheaston Primary School are among the winners of awards recognising the South West’s best new architectural projects. The two buildings will now go into the national Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Awards where later this year they will compete against other leading projects from across...
International sports links and excellent training facilities are bringing more than a dozen nations to Bath for pre-Olympic training. But, it looks like the positive effects on the city are likely to be felt long after 2012. As teams commit to train here, international TV crews are coming too. That means publicity for Bath,...
A strong financial first-half performance has been reported today by Jelf, the West-based independent full service brokerage which supports businesses and individuals. Revenues were slightly up on last year from £35m to £35.2m in the six months to March 31 as EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation) increased by 5% to £4.4m...
IP Group, a developer of intellectual property-based technology spinout businesses from a dozen British universities including Bath and Bristol, has boosted the value of its investment portfolio from £123.8m on December 31 to £178.6m. The increase is largely due to the £26.4m fair value gain as a result of Oxford Nanopore Technologies’ financing announced...
Bath Building Society has launched its annual charity grant awards programme and is seeking applications from local charities and community groups. The total value of the awards has been increased to £5,000 this year to reflect the growing number of entrants it received in 2011 while the Society will also give away balloon flight...
Tuesday May 08 FINALS Chagala Group Ltd. GDR (Reg S) EGMs Alpha Bank GDR (Reg S) USD AGMs Biotech Growth Trust (The), Gresham Computing, Macfarlane Group, Morgan Crucible Co, Norsk Hydro ASA, St James's Place, Vitec Group, Weir Group, William Hill UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS BRC Shop Price Index (00:00) RICS Housing Market Survey (09:30)...
