Bath’s manufacturers are being urged to take advantage of a £30m Government scheme to give employers the skills they need to realise their growth ambitions. The scheme – the Employer Ownership Fund – gives employers 50% matched funding for training projects designed to address skills shortages affecting their business. The first £20m of the...
Inward investment agency Invest Bristol & Bath is on track to hit its target of helping to create 1,380 jobs over two years, new figures show. Since its launch January 2013, the organisation has assisted in generating more than 1,200 jobs by attracting a number of high-profile businesses to the area – and it...
Small and medium-sized businesses are to get access to world-class CAD CAM (computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacture) tools and rapid prototyping through 3D printing at a new enterprise centre. Opening today at Wiltshire College’s Lackham campus near Chippenham, pictured, the centre is aimed at boosting product design in businesses by fast-tracking product development and...
Low-cost airline easyJet is to introduce direct flights from Bristol Airport to Gibraltar next year, taking the number of destinations it serves from the airport to 47. When it launches next April it will be the first time the airport has had a direct service to the British Mediterranean territory. EasyJet, Bristol Airport’s largest...
Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the area’s business community the last word on our weekly e-bulletin. This week Andy Cox, innovations & solutions director at IT services firm IPL, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Hugo – don’t know what else to say. Book...
Bath has become one of the UK’s hotspots for investment in positive social and environmental projects such as those linked to energy, leisure and credit unions. The city ranks third behind Oxford and Bristol in the latest report into positive investing in the UK from Ethex, the not-for-profit organisation that advises investors on ways...
PropertECO, the Bath-based firm that tests buildings for radon gas, has won the The Pitch 2014, the UK-wide competition to find the country’s best entrepreneurial small businesses. Founded in 2011 by Rebecca Coates and her business partner Martin Freeman, PropertECO is one of the few UK firms involved in testing for radon – the...
Bath-based cloud pioneer Zynstra and SETsquared, the highly-successful business incubator backed by the University of Bath, have been named among the winners in the Sparkies, the region’s tech sector ‘Oscars’. The awards, staged at Bath’s Komedia last week, emphasised the West of England’s growing role as one of the UK’s most innovative regions and...
Respected national marketing agency Marcom Marketing Communications has closed its London office and shifted its business focus to Bath after 24 years of trading mainly in the capital. Changes in the industry – combined with Bath’s growing reputation as a creative city in its own right – means it feels it no longer needs...
Underground home car parking system firm Cardok UK and specialist property developer Nitor Investments have made their first move in what they hope will be a parking revolution in Bath. The two city-based firms are working together to add Cardok’s revolutionary space-saving electro-hydraulic car lift parking system to a five-bedroom family home in Hermitage...
