Legal and financial planning services firm Mogers Drewett is to expand its market share in both areas following its acquisition of Bath-based boutique private client practice firm Freemans Solicitors. The move comes after founder Shaun Freeman decided to retire. Established in 1999, single office firm Freemans Solicitors developed a specialist private client practice which was...
Law firm Thrings has appointed three newly qualified solicitors in a move it says reflects the way it continues to retain talent nurtured through its trainee scheme. Jake Wennen will be based in the agriculture team at the firm’s Bath office, while Rhiannon Forbes is now a member of its residential property team in...
Three former University of Bath students who have gone on to launch their own successful businesses in the city are to shed light on their entrepreneurial journeys at an event next week. Staged by Bath Unlimited, the organisation helping promote the city’s sustainable growth and future success, the event will look at how these...
Business leaders, academics and student entrepreneurs will share their business and research expertise and showcase their start-up successes at the University of Bath’s second annual Enterprise Day next week. Enterprise Day on Wednesday, March 29, is part of the university’s Enterprise and Entrepreneurship programme, which supports staff, students, graduates and entrepreneurs with their ambitions. The...
Pioneering clean energy firm Good Energy has launched a new smart export tariff for households with solar panels as part of its strategy to expand its decentralised energy services offering. Called Power for Good, the tariff will pay customers 10p per kWh, which the Chippenham-headquartered group describes as a leading rate for a variable...
Bath firms need more help from the government in the face of stubbornly high inflation, including transitioning to more energy efficient sources and easing supply chain difficulties, the region’s biggest business organisation has said. With annual inflation unexpectedly jumping from 10.1% in January to 10.4% last month, Business West – which runs Bath Chamber of Commerce...
Regional accountancy firm Milsted Langdon’s tax team in its Bath office has been strengthened by the arrival of Zoe Chandler as a tax manager. Zoe, pictured, has joined after more than six-and-a-half years at accountants Old Mill, where she trained and went on to become a senior tax specialist. A highly qualified Chartered Tax...
The Novia Foundation, which was formed five years ago by Bath-based wealth management firm Novia Financial to more efficiently channel its fundraising efforts in the city, is to be extended to new areas. The move follows the appointment of a new chair at the end of last year and nearly two years after Novia...
Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the area’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Rachael Rackham, director at Bath accountancy firm Richardson Swift, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched: The Whale, starring Brendan Fraser. Book you read: The classic The Dinosaur that Pooped the Bed....
The Bath area has been named as the best place in the UK to launch and run a successful microbusiness. The city, along with North East Somerset, has the highest concentration of thriving microbusinesses and self-employed people, according to the Business Financed website. The website, which provides banking and finance information for UK businesses, set...
