Bristol Airport today announced it is to introduce direct flights to the Swedish capital Stockholm next summer – adding another major European city to its departure board and bringing a potential £1m to the regional economy. The twice-weekly service will be operated by Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) from June 30 to August 15. SAS will...
Monday 25 November Interims: Cranswick, Essar Energy, Quintain Estates and Development Trading statement: Seadrill Partners AGMs: Aeorema Communications, Pantheon International Participations Economics: British Bankers’ Association loans for house purchases data, Nationwide house prices data Tuesday 26 November Interims: ACM Shipping, Assura Group, Caledonia Investments, Chamberlin, De La Rue, Kcom, Scapa Group, Severfield-Rowen, Severn Trent,...
An ambitious plan is being drawn up to harness Bath and the West of England’s creativity and innovation to potentially create more than 100,000 jobs over the next 17 years. The emphasis will be on five key sectors spanning digital to aerospace, and in which the area is already strong, to drive growth and...
Labour can win the next general election with business-friendly policies but will probably find itself in a Lib-Lab coalition, the party’s former spin doctor Alastair Campbell told West business leaders last night. The election battleground will be the economy, he said in his keynote speech to the CBI South West’s annual dinner. The Conservatives...
Bath businesses have been urged to support Bath in Fashion 2014 and help keep the city firmly in the vanguard of British style. The UK fashion industry has been one of the country’s international business success stories of recent years, helping create jobs and boost exports. And over the past four years Bath in...
Innovative new software that enables small businesses in the hospitality sector to offer their own online gift vouchers has been launched by Bath firm Vouchertech. The scheme allows hotels, spas, restaurants and other businesses to sell e-vouchers via their own website or Facebook page. Users simply integrate the software with one of their existing...
Bath tech firm CloudFind has attracted a further investment of £460,000 towards developing its tools to transform how companies find, share and organise their information. This latest equity investment takes the two-year-old firm’s funding to more than £700,000. Cloudfind’s technology addresses an issue that every company recognises: how to find the right information quickly...
Bath-based planning, creative, technology and media firm The Agency saw off stiff competition from larger established agencies at the prestigious Marketing Industry Network Awards to walk away with four trophies out of its six nominations. Its haul on the night included SW Best Marketing Business of the Year, Best UK Small Agency of the...
Future, the Bath-based international media group and digital business, has appointed James Ranson as director of advertising sales for its UK arm. James, pictured, was previously ad director of Future’s London sales unit but now takes on cross-company responsibility in the UK, including the sales team based in Bath. James has been responsible for...
Barclays has provided a £1.5m finance facility to help Norton Radstock College achieve its £3m campus upgrade. The package has helped fund the construction of a 26,167 sq ft two-storey building at the further education college in Radstock, replacing the 1950s North Side Building. More than 1,000 full and 5,000 part-time students undertaking a...
