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Ahead of the Agenda: The Week Ahead

February 12, 2023
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Monday February 13 Nothing listed Tuesday February 14 Finals: Coca-Cola HBC, Plus500, Carr’s Group  Q1 result: TUI Economic announcements: Claimant count rate, Unemployment rate Wednesday February 15 Final: Barclays Interims: Dunelm, Hargreaves Lansdown, Pan African Resources Economic announcements: Producer price index, Consumer price index, Retail price index Thursday February 16 Finals: HarbourVest Global Private Equity, Moneysupermarket.com Group, Relx, Centrica, Riverstone Credit Opportunities...

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Tap into our spa heritage to make Bath a world-class wellbeing city, ReBalance festival launch told

February 10, 2023
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Tap into our spa heritage to make Bath a world-class wellbeing city, ReBalance festival launch told

Bath has the potential to boost its economy by being a ‘fun’ city with a strong emphasis on wellbeing and health built on its spa heritage, the launch of its first wellness festival heard. It could take lessons from places as diverse as Iceland, with its tradition for thermal bathing, and Singapore’s emphasis on trees...

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£3m for Bath firm using seaweed to develop environmentally friendly food packaging

February 10, 2023
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£3m for Bath firm using seaweed to develop environmentally friendly food packaging

A Bath firm developing innovative bioplastic food packaging from seaweed has secured more than £3m to take its technology another step closer to everyday use. Sustainable biotech business Kelpi invented the unique compostable material to replace single-use fossil fuel plastics, which take hundreds of years to decompose.   The seed round, led by Bristol-based specialist...

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Diverse product range across different markets shielding Future from impact of slowdown

February 10, 2023
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Diverse product range across different markets shielding Future from impact of slowdown

Future, the Bath-headquartered global media group, has said its diverse range of products – which spans magazines, websites and digital marketing platforms in areas as different as fashion, finance and tech – is protecting it from the consumer spending slowdown. The highly acquisitive group also recently added two more businesses to its stable –...

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Return of Bath Christmas Market brought significant boost to the city’s economy, figures reveal

February 9, 2023
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Return of Bath Christmas Market brought significant boost to the city’s economy, figures reveal

Bath’s Christmas Market, which returned last year for the first time since 2019, attracted an estimated half-a-million visitors, according to official figures just released – making it one of the most successful in its 20-year history. Footfall was round 25% up on pre-2019 average and while the financial impact of the market has not...

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Powered by poo! Start-up on a mission to use slurry from dairy farms for waste-to-energy projects

February 9, 2023
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Powered by poo! Start-up on a mission to use slurry from dairy farms for waste-to-energy projects

A new way to make money from dairy farm waste is to be commercialised by a start-up business founded by a former University of Bath mechanical engineering student. Frome-based BioFactory secured funding from Innovate UK and Defra for a 12-month feasibility study via the Farming Innovation Programme after developing a modular anaerobic digester (AD). ...

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Major upgrade for former Bath home of Emperor Haile Selassie, now a place of pilgrimage

February 9, 2023
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Major upgrade for former Bath home of Emperor Haile Selassie, now a place of pilgrimage

Work will soon get underway to maintain historic Bath property Fairfield House, once the home of the exiled Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I and now an important community base. Owner Bath & North East Somerset (B&NES) Council has started a formal partnership with Fairfield House Bath Community Interest Company (CIC) on a significant maintenance...

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Regional campaign against poverty pay gains traction with commitment from more than 100 firms

February 9, 2023
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Regional campaign against poverty pay gains traction with commitment from more than 100 firms

More than 100 firms across the West of England have signed up to a regional Good Employment Charter which pledges to pay staff a Real Living Wage and clamp down on the use of zero-hours contracts. Introduced by Metro Mayor Dan Norris as part of a campaign against poverty pay, it also commits employers...

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Consultancy makes astute appointment as business and life coach comes on board

February 9, 2023
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Consultancy makes astute appointment as business and life coach comes on board

Experienced business coach Mark Tanner has joined the team at business consultancy Be Astute as it enters a new phase of growth. Frome-based Be Astute founders, husband-and-wife team Julia and Bill Stock, described Mark as the perfect addition to the team due to his “immensely credible fountain of knowledge, one that can really help...

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Big spike in the need to protect endangered hedgehogs earns Bath Spa Uni gold award

February 9, 2023
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Big spike in the need to protect endangered hedgehogs earns Bath Spa Uni gold award

Bath Spa University is celebrating possibly one of the most unusual accolades in its history – Gold Accreditation for being a hedgehog-friendly campus. The award, from the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, comes just a year after the university achieved Silver status.  Hedgehogs are listed as vulnerable under the International Union for Conservation of Nature...

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