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Bath Rugby’s bid to increase capacity at the Rec for the next two seasons has been given the green light by council planners. Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES) Council approved the club’s temporary planning application which raises capacity in the stadium by 2,000 to 14,000 for the 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 seasons. The scheme...
The West of England has joined a ‘cities for business’ partnership calling on the Government to devolve powers from Whitehall and give them more freedom to create jobs and attract investment. The partnership brings together the leaders of England’s eight largest urban areas outside London – including the Bristol/Bath city region – and their...
Bath is a great place to do business – but everyone knows there are some serious challenges that need addressing. The Bath branch of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) wants to hear the views of local firms to give a real insight into business life in Bath today. The FSB has teamed up...
Specialist coach and holiday tour operator Hatts Coaches, which counted Bath Rugby among its clients, has gone into administration with the loss of nearly 90 jobs. Up to 1,000 customers who booked trips with companies in the Wiltshire-based Hatts group now face an anxious wait to see if they will get refunds or if...
Bath-based innovative social network Neighbourly.com has been officially launched with the ambition of revolutionising corporate social responsibility. The business, which connects community projects with companies, has been developed by entrepreneur Nick Davies and is the first digital platform to be created for the largely unstructured corporate giving sector within the UK, which is worth...
IPL, the Bath-based IT consultancy, has launched its own academy with the aiming of develop the best business analysts in the industry. It will provide up to 20 graduates a year with a dedicated three-year training programme, drawing on IPL’s extensive consultancy and business analysis expertise with clients as diverse as GlaxoSmithKline, BP, FirstGroup...
A garden centre business owned by the same family since opening in 1884 is future-proofing itself against spiraling energy costs and enhancing its green credentials after securing £400,000 funding from Barclays. Whitehall Garden Centre at Lacock near Chippenham, which also owns and operates a site near Bristol, is installing three biomass energy cabins using...
Bath integrated communications firm The Agency has won a 12-month contract to promote Welsh beef across the UK – just three months after it was appointed as lead agency for a nationwide Welsh lamb promotional campaign. Both contracts have been secured from Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales (HCC), the organisation responsible for...
Four pioneering Bath firms have showcased their innovation to a large group of senior business and technology directors at Barclays’ global headquarters in London. The four fledgling businesses were among six chosen by SETsquared – the business hub supported by the University of Bath – to represent its groundbreaking innovation. The event was part...
