International commercial property agency Cushman & Wakefield has made four appointments to its South West office. Shimarlie Andrew has joined as a senior consultant, Nasreen Dad as a retail surveyor while Polly Smart and Oscar Skevington-Postles have arrived as part of the firm’s graduate programme. Shimarlie will provide strategic estates advice to a number...
The impact of Brexit on the property market will be explored by a panel of experts at a high-profile event in Bath next week. Called Optimising Opportunities, the event is being staged by law firm Mogers Drewett, Barclays Premier, accountants Milsted Langdon and property agents Knight Frank October 9. The panel will discuss...
Bath commercial property firm HPH has named Bath City Farm as its new charity of the year and will provide practical help through professional advice and expertise as well as taking part in fundraising activities. The farm in Whiteway has grown significantly since it started in 1990 and is now home to 100 animals...
The parent company of Bath Ales has added to its pub portfolio in the city by snapping up historic watering hole The Griffin. The tenanted pub on Monmouth Street in the city centre, which dates back to 1730, is the first to be acquired by Cornwall-based St Austell Brewery since in took over Bath...
Business West’s Skills West team is running a series of business skills workshops in Bath throughout autumn covering topics ranging from recruitment and flexible working to apprenticeships for small and medium-sized businesses and developing the workforce. The workshops are free and open to businesses from any sector or industry. Title: How to find the...
Experienced hotelier Michael Musgrave has joined the Bath’s largest hotel – the 177-bedroom Apex City – as general manager. Michael, pictured, will lead the team at the £35m, four-star venue, which opened just over a year ago as Bath’s only purpose-built city centre conference and events venue. His appointment comes hot on the...
Regional estate agent and property group Andrews has made its largest dividend payment to shareholders in 14 years – giving its pioneering charitable trusts a £1m boost. When founder Cecil Jackson Cole set up the Keynsham-headquartered business in 1946 he structured it to share a minimum of 35% of its profits each year with...
The Gainsborough Bath Spa has again been awarded three prestigious placings in the latest Condé Nast Traveller Readers’ Travel Awards, which rank the world’s best hotels, resorts, cities, islands, airlines and cruise lines. The five-star hotel was ranked second in Top UK Hotel Spas category, ninth in Top UK Holiday Hotels and also included...
Bath’s County Hotel, which was acquired by city-based hotel group the Kaleidoscope Collection earlier this year, has been rebranded as The Bird, Bath. The new brand aims to give the Pulteney Road property, pictured, a distinctive new personality and coincides with the appointment of former Apex City of Bath Hotel manager Tim O’Sullivan as...
The five-star Bath Priory, part of Andrew Brownsword Hotels, has become one of 21 new additions to Relais & Châteaux, the global association of individually owned and operated upmarket hotels and restaurants. The hotel, which sits in four acres of gardens, has 26 bedrooms and seven suites, and boasts a 3 AA Rosette restaurant...
