Hundreds of Bath businesses were beating path to the city’s Assembly Rooms today as the Bath Business Expo got under way. More than 600 people registered to attend the high-profile event - one of the biggest of its kind between Bristol and Swindon. Organisers expect today’s expo to be bigger and better than...
Bath business experts have been reacting to Tuesday’s Spring Statement, with most pointing to what Chancellor Philip Hammond failed to deliver rather than what he said. The city’s largest accountancy practice Bishop Fleming was particularly hard-hitting in its comments, calling it a “missed opportunity to be bold, imaginative and transformative”, especially as the...
CBI chief economist Rain Newton-Smith said the Chancellor was rightly backing British business to secure the UK’s future prosperity in a new economy. “It’s great to see an upgrade in the state of our public finances and rightly sensible to set more aside for a rainy day with Brexit uncertainty still weighing on the...
Bath hoteliers Ian and Christa Taylor this week said they are looking to make further acquisitions in the city after buying the four-star County Hotel. The couple’s Kaleidoscope Collection snapped up the 22-bedroom hotel on Pulteney Rd for an undisclosed sum just a month after selling the four-star, 62-bedroom Abbey Hotel. That sale, to...
Bath Business Expo has added two more seminars to its packed schedule with just a week to go to what will be one of the largest general business exhibitions and networking opportunities in the region this year. The expo, on Friday, March 16, will build on the success of last year’s sold-out event,...
Businesses have been flocking to sign up to sponsor the Minerva’s Owls of Bath sculpture trail coming to the city this summer. Following a flurry of interest in the project, organisers have now extended the ‘early bird’ discount for sponsors until next Friday, March 16. Almost 20 sponsors are now confirmed for the 100 owls...
Regional law firm Thrings, which has an office in Bath, has moved further into the primary care sector by acting on the relocation of a large Keynsham-based medical practice into purpose-built premises. Thrings lawyers advised on the commercial property aspects of the move by St Augustine’s Medical Practice from Station Road to the new...
A couple of years ago, BrandSoup reported on the Kylie v Kylie spat – two ladies fighting over one name. Since then, Mlles Minogue and Jenner appear to have kissed and made up, but… what’s this? It’s only Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM to some) with a very similar problem! ...
A light-hearted video featuring the team running in the Bath Half Marathon from city-headquartered law firm Royds Withy King is aiming to raise awareness of their chosen charity, Bath Mind. The 18-strong team hope the film will also bring in much-needed funds for the charity as they go through their final preparations for...
Receptionist Dawn Colliver, who has dedicated four decades of her working life to the same Bath law firm, has been honoured by the Mayor. Since she walked through the doors of Titley Long on North Parade in 1977, Dawn has been something of a permanent fixture at the firm, now known as Thrings...
