An Export Week event tomorrow will explain how Bath businesses can unlock the potential of South East Asian markets. Export Week aims to encourage firms to consider trading internationally or, for existing exporters, to look at new markets. UK Trade and Investment (UKTI), the Government organisation committed to boosting overseas trade, is staging a...
Innovative Bath firm Industrial Phycology, which uses algae to recover valuable resources from wastewater, has taken a major step towards funding after becoming joint winner of a major national business competition. The firm, based at the SETsquared innovation hub at the University of Bath, took part in the ‘pitch with the greatest commercial potential’...
Bath-based brand agency The House has clinched a double victory at the prestigious Transform Awards, which celebrate rebranding, repositioning and brand transformation in the UK and in Europe’s creative industries. The House won silver for its identity and event branding for Special Olympics GB and also gained a bronze for its rebranding of Norton...
Bath-based public relations firm Highlight has been appointed to manage PR and social media for the iconic collectable toy range Sylvanian Families. The appointment by Japanese toy maker and Sylvanian Families creator EPOCH also includes its Aquabeads art range and follows a four-way competitive pitch. Created in Japan in 1985 and launched two years...
Anthropologie, the upmarket American homeware and fashion retailer, has confirmed it is to open its Bath store at the end of May – its fifth British outlet and first outside the capital. It will move into the former Habitat store on New Bond Street following a reported £2m refurbishment of the 8,700 sq ft...
Global risk analytics and forecasting firm Maplecroft is relocating its Bath-based UK headquarters in a move that property agents say reflects the strength of the city’s rapidly-recovering office market. The world-leading firm has taken the final two floors at the recently refurbished Cambridge House in the city centre – leaving the city short of...
Adam Powell has joined the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) as director of skills after eight years in senior management roles at Bath Spa University. In his new role Adam, pictured, will deliver the LEP’s vision of developing a well-educated and well-motivated workforce to meet business needs now and in the future...
Bath-based law firm Stone King is offering to write wills for free to help raise vital funds for a leading healthcare charity. The firm is supporting Make a Will Week 2014 – which runs from April 28 to May 2 – when its solicitors will be waiving their standard will-writing fees for clients who...
Chippenham-based logistics group Wincanton has appointed construction services firm Carillion’s finance director Richard Adam as a non-executive director with effect from June 1. Mr Adam, pictured, will join Wincanton’s audit, remuneration and nomination committees. The firm today said it is envisaged that he will chair the audit committee “in due course”. Mr Adam has...
Annual pre-tax profits have more than doubled to £3.3m at Good Energy, the fast-growing renewable energy group, as more consumers turn away from the major utility firms. The Chippenham-based firm, which plans to own more than 110 megawatts of renewable electricity generation by 2016, had a gross margin of 34% in the year to...
