Bath-based specialist online publisher SelectScience has secured a major private equity investment and appointed a new CEO as it looks to accelerate its growth. The firm, based at Corston, was formed in 1998 with a mission to introduce peer-to-peer and digital marketing services into the scientific industry. It has expanded to provide vital online...
Bath accountancy firm Pearson May teams up with Bath Business News each week to bring you the top national finance stories. Spring Budget 2021: What will it include? Will Chancellor Rishi Sunak raise taxes or maintain the status quo on March 3? Click here to find out more Get ready for the VAT reverse charge New rules are set...
Nearly 50 technology firms from across the South West are to explore potential business deals in the US, India and Singapore as part of a virtual trade mission promoting the region as a ‘tech-for-good’ hotspot. The companies have been selected to take part in Tech 4 Good South West, an initiative launched last September...
Bath-based law firm Mogers Drewett has launched a campaign to collect and donate 50 laptops this month to help bridge the digital divide made worse by the coronavirus pandemic. ‘Fifty in February’ will support the work of Wiltshire Digital Drive (WDD), which was set up last year by a group of businesses in Bath and...
Specialist investment and fund manager Hawksmoor Investment Management is to open an office in Bath after appointing three members of rival Investec’s former base in the city. Hawksmoor’s Bath Office will be staffed by senior investment manager Dean Hodgson, business development manager Mike Topham and trainee investment manager Sally Overton. All three previously...
In a surprise move and with only a week to go until the 2019/20 tax return filing deadline, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) announced on January 25 that it would not be charging the usual automatic late filing penalties of £100 for any 2019/20 tax returns that were not filed by January 31, 2021....
China’s booming Shandong province will be the subject of the next webinar to be staged by the West of England China Bureau. It has set out a year-long programme of online events co-ordinated and hosted by Hewlett Rand, a long-term bureau member. Having focused on the vibrant tech and start-up ecosystem of the Greater Bay Area - which...
Regional accountancy group Bishop Fleming, which has an office in Bath, has promoted two directors to partner as it continues its growth strategy despite the challenges presented by the coronavirus pandemic. Dan White and Rob Pearce’s promotions will bring the firm’s partner group to 34 and, with a record number of trainees recruited last...
More than 370,000 small businesses in England and Wales could be eligible to claim via their business interruption insurance policies for disruption during the first Covid-19 national lockdown, following the Supreme Court’s important ruling. This ruling substantially allowed the appeal brought by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and campaign groups Hiscox Action Group and...
Business confidence among South West firms has slumped to the lowest in England as the latest lockdown pushes sales down further and puts more pressure on staffing levels. Just 11% for businesses in the region expect trading levels to have returned to pre-pandemic levels by this time next year while one-in-five expect to have...
