Simon Bond, director of the SETsquared innovation centre at the University of Bath, has been appointed head of the SETsquared network, the UK’s top university business incubator. As innovation director, Simon, pictured, will oversee the way the partnership incubates hi- tech start-ups from its centres at the universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and...
Bath-based planning, creative, technology and media firm The Agency increased turnover by 50% and gross profit by 35% last year, according to its latest financial results. It has grown its staffing to 25 full-time employees and continues to hire for its planning teams, creative and design teams as well as its technology teams. Since...
Wincanton, the Chippenham-based logistics group, has won a contract to deliver more than a billion litres of fuel and liquid petroleum gas (LPG) a year to petrol stations and commercial premises across the Midlands and North East of England. The contract with Phillips 66, the oil refining and energy company, will involve 100 Wincanton...
AB Dynamics, the Bradford on Avon-based automotive equipment manufacturer, has won an order worth £1.6m from China for one of its high-specification measurement machines. The order from the China Automobile Engineering Research Institute (CAERI) is the sixth Suspension Parameter Measurement Machine (SPMM) AB Dynamics has sold in the country. Delivery is expected in June...
Each week Bath Business News offers FIVE key pieces of advice to make business life just that little bit easier. This week: FIVE easy tips for those who sit behind a desk all day. Start the day with a small warm up routine for 5-10 minutes to activate your postural muscles. Stretch little and...
Bath-based Epoch Wealth Management, the fast-growing provider of specialist investment and tax planning services, is to be the main sponsor of a special fundraising dinner to support the Precious Lives Atlantic Challenge. The dinner – at Prior Park College in Bath on April 5 – will help raise valuable funds for Children’s Hospice South...
Bath creative agency The House has worked with Wells-based insurance broker Higos Insurance Services to reposition its commercial insurance brand by establishing a new brand direction, visual representation and corporate brochure. The House established that Higos Insurance’s clear distinguishing brand features were its people and promise. The tag line ‘Insurance without doubt’ is at...
The Bath-based international development charity Send a Cow has appointed Simon Barnes, former executive vice president of the American Bible Society, as its new chief executive. He takes up his new post as the charity – which was set up by South West dairy farmers – announces ambitious plans to double the number of...
The chief executive of Bath-based media group Future, Mark Wood, is to step down from the role to become a non-executive director and will be replaced by its group chief financial officer Zillah Byng-Maddick. The changes, announced today, take effect from April 1. Ms Byng-Maddick will be replaced by interim chief financial officer Simon...
Chippenham-based automotive sector learning and development agency RTS has recruited Rachel Smith to head its Mazda Academy team, which works with customer-facing staff at Mazda dealerships throughout the UK. Rachel, pictured, from Swindon, started her career in retail banking with HSBC. She then moved into business development for the bank, specialising in change management...
