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...
Ahead of Export Week (April 7 to 11), UKTI and Bath Business News have teamed up to offer expert advice in a series of features, kicking off today with UKTI International Trade adviser Patrick Bos looking at the opportunities in the MINT countries For those of you who have taken up the export challenge...
Bath firms with expansion potential can apply for growth funding to a £25m pot of Government cash launched this week. The West of England Growth Fund aims to bring about job creation and private sector investment that would otherwise not have happened, or that can be accelerated through public sector grant support. Some £15m...
Monday 24 March Interims: Allergy Therapeutics, Finsbury Food Finals: Frenkel Topping, Greencoat UK Wind, Kentz Corporation, Miton Group, Plant Healthcare, SpaceandPeople Tuesday 25 March Interims: Epistem Holdings, Nanoco, Wolseley Finals: 888 Holdings, accesso Technology Group, AG Barr, Corero Network Security, Kingfisher, Mission Marketing, ProPhotonix, Quixant, S&U, Ubisense Trading statements: easyJet, Topps Tiles AGMs: Aukett...
Upmarket fashion brand Mulberry’s chief executive Bruno Guillon resigned with immediate effect – with industry insiders pointing to the Somerset-based group’s troubles during his two years at the helm. His sudden departure comes less than two months after the iconic brand’s third profits warning in 18 months – the most recent blamed on prices...
Bath’s manufacturers and tech firms were given help on a number of fronts to build on the recovery in today’s Budget. Business West, the organisation behind Bath Chamber of Commerce, said the Chancellor had delivered on many items on its wish-list. Executive director James Durie, pictured, who is also a board member of West...
Business Lending for exporters doubled to £3bn and interest rates on that lending cut by a third Business rate discounts and enhanced capital allowances in Enterprise Zones extended for three years Economy GDP forecast to grow by 2.7% this year and 2.3% next year, then by 2.6% in 2016 and 2017 and by 2.5%...
National business groups welcomed today’s Budget, particularly the measures aimed at boosting manufacturing and lower energy costs. The CBI, which had called it a “make-or-break” Budget, said it “will put wind in the sails of business investment, especially for manufacturers”. Director-general John Cridland, pictured, said it had come at a critical time in the...
The biggest talking point for the property sector from today’s Budget was about a measure that was not even mentioned – reform of business rates. Property industry figures – and most mainstream business lobbying groups – have been urging the Chancellor to overhaul a system they see as extremely unfair and a brake on...
