Venues across Bath and North East Somerset will open their doors over the next two weeks to give people a chance to see inside hidden places and try out new experiences for free. Now in its 30th year, the Heritage Open Days scheme is a unique nationwide celebration of history and culture. Over that time...
Three members of the senior management team at Bath-headquartered alternative funder Time Finance have expanded their roles and received new job titles to align with the business’s five-year growth plan. After finishing the 2023/24 financial year with impressive results, the group – which specialises in providing asset, loan and invoice finance products – is...
Experts from law firm Thrings, which has an office in Bath, have helped one of the UK’s leading water pump suppliers complete the takeover of a specialist in wastewater pumping stations. Pump Supplies, which has its headquarters in Gloucester and a string of five regional depots, provides a range of electric submersible water pumps...
Bath businesses are being invited to support a gala dinner that will showcase the positive impact of refugees and migrants on the West of England and the wider UK – with a keynote speech by Olympic gold medallist Sir Mo Farah. ‘The Welcome Party’ will celebrate individual success stories of refugees who have set...
Bath-headquartered regional law firm RWK Goodman has advised the shareholders of a specialist UK chemical company on its acquisition by the market’s global leader. The RWK Goodman team worked with Monarch Group, a leading distributor of commodity and agricultural chemicals, on the sale to German-based international player Brenntag. Kent-headquartered Monarch, which was established in 1989, is...
Monday September 2 Interims: Concurrent Technologies, Ashtead Technology Holdings Trading announcement: Kainos Group Economic announcements: PMI manufacturing, Nationwide house price index Tuesday September 3 Finals: Manolete Partners, Alumasc Group, Craneware Interims: Midwich Group, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Getbusy, STV Group, Michelmersh Brick Holdings Trading announcement: Smith (DS) Economic announcement: Retail sales Wednesday September 4 Final: Barratt Developments Interims: Cairn Homes, Hilton Food Group, Cab...
A Bath-headquartered firm aiming to use hi-tech sailing vessels to generate green energy at sea has raised £4.65m to fund its next stage of growth. DRIFT Energy will use the investment to start production of the pioneering, high-performance vessels next year. The firm eventually hopes to deploy a fleet of ‘DRIFT ships’, pictured, to...
Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week, Rebecca Dennis, partner at Goughs Solicitors, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched: Despicable Me 4. I have a 10-year-old son. A new nemesis for Gru. The tension was not...
Small business confidence in the South West has dropped again after surge of positivity earlier in the year, according to new research. The latest regional quarterly survey by the Britain’s biggest business group, the Federation of Small Businesses, reveals a sharp decline in optimism – by 30 percentage points – over the summer. This...
Bath area tech business founders and investors are being invited to take part in a second West of England-focussed trade mission to Hong Kong following the success of the inaugural visit last year. Staged by Tech West England Advocates, the not-for-profit tech community for the region, last year’s mission helped participants develop links with...
