Nearly 350 business leaders from across the West of England attended last week’s ICAEW regional annual business dinner, where former MI5 Director General Eliza Manningham-Buller was guest speaker. Baroness Manningham-Buller drew on her experiences leading the service through significant change, expansion and scrutiny and urged businesses to embrace diversity of views to become more relevant and effective. The event at...
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Organisations need a diversity of views to be relevant and effective, the former Director General of MI5 Eliza Manningham-Buller told West of England business leaders last night. Speaking at the ICAEW regional annual business dinner, Baroness Manningham-Buller, pictured, drew on her experiences leading the service through significant change, expansion and scrutiny as it dealt with the...
Bath manufacturing group Rotork is benefiting from growing investment in carbon capture projects and by oil and gas companies in North American to use electrification to eliminate methane emissions. As a result, the group, which designs and makes flow control equipment for the global oil, gas, water and chemical industries, said today it expects...
Lightweight car and motorbike wheel manufacturer Dymag is to accelerate the global mass production of its technology after securing investment from a South Korean firm. The funding from advanced materials manufacturer Hankuk Carbon builds on an existing strategic partnership between the two firms. That deal, signed a year ago, aims to mass manufacture Chippenham-based...
A rebound in its European markets and continued growth in others gave Bath-headquartered spectacles designer and manufacturer Inspecs a positive end to 2022, with its chief executive describing it as a year of two halves. The group, which produces a wide range of spectacle frames and lenses, including sunglasses and safety glasses, for markets...
Advisers from regional law firm Thrings and accountants Bishop Fleming have helped secure a major national deal in the fast-growing data and artificial intelligence sector. The acquisition of DataShapa by market-leading Microsoft pure play technology partner Transparity will create a major specialist data practice. London-based DataShapa, a Microsoft Gold Certified data strategy and business...
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Fundraising efforts including a sky dive for daring staff at Goughs Solicitors to an in-house bake-off for their more down-to-earth colleagues helped the firm net more than £3,000 for Julia’s House children’s hospice. A number of dress-down days and a pub quiz also added to the total. Julia’s House, which is dedicated to supporting...
A fast-growing digital transformation and software specialist has had its head office redesigned and enlarged by workspace design company Interaction - calling it an oasis of creativity and collaboration. Amdaris, widely recognised as one of the UK’s fastest-growing tech companies, called in interaction to shape its new Bristol headquarters in the city’s flagship Aurora office development after outgrowing its previous space in...
