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Plans to develop a hub for Bath’s burgeoning creative sector, potentially generating up to 300 jobs, have taken a leap forward with the official launch of the Craneworks project. The ambitious £15m scheme aims to regenerate the derelict Stothert & Pitt factory buildings on Lower Bristol Road into a world-class centre for innovation in...
Issues facing academy schools across the UK are to be tackled at a seminar staged by West accountancy firm Monahans next month. The event, at the Stanton Manor Hotel, near Chippenham, on July 9, will look at fraud indicators and internal controls, capital maintenance funding and year-end procedures will all be up for discussion....
Bath area firms are being urged to visit the UK’s first Export Fair, which is being staged in the South West next week, as a first step to doing business abroad. Organised by UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) and Business West, the Export Fair supports the recent International Festival of Business, which put exports...
Bath-based tech firm Actual Experience has won a top award for its spin out from London’s Queen Mary University. The firm, which improves digital supply chains for major firms through leading-edge analytics, was co-founded by Queen Mary academic Jonathan Pitts and businessman Dave Page, pictured below, in 2009 and floated on the London Stock...
Chippenham-based logistics group Wincanton has refinanced its main banking facility for a further five-year term to support its growth ambitions. The refinancing, provided by HSBC, RBS, Barclays, Lloyds and AIB and announced today in a statement to the London Stock Exchange, includes a new £170m facility, which the group said had improved pricing. ...
Bath will play host to representatives of a Europe-wide project set up to help develop and promote wellness and well-being in spa and tourism destinations. The European Weldest project stages its next key, three-day meeting in the city between Wednesday and Friday. The previous meeting was held in Berlin. Set up two years ago,...
Ambitious Bath area businesses can bid for a share of a £200m investment pot – the latest phase of the Government’s Regional Growth Fund (RGF). Firms applying for round six of the RGF, launched this week by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, will be following in the footsteps of businesses such as Somerset luxury...
Law firm Stone King, which has an office in Bath, has appointed experienced corporate lawyer Miguel Pereira to its expanding business team. Miguel, pictured, joins from London, Oxford and Cardiff firm Lewis Silkin, where he was a partner in the corporate team. Although his main focus is in mergers and acquisitions and general corporate...
West businesses making or supplying upmarket products are today getting an opportunity to meet buyers from China purchasing consortium Hi Lifestyle when they visit the region. Hi Lifestyle is looking for partners to help it satisfy ever-growing demand in China for high-end products, particularly those regarded as aspirational or with strong luxury brands. While...
