British Bag Makers, the fast-growing Radstock-based company, will create unique handbags from a pop-up workshop at this year’s Bath in Fashion event – showing how British manufacturing continues to lead the world in luxury leather bag-making. Fashion celebrities such as milliner Stephen Jones, interiors expert Nina Campbell, supermodel Jade Parfitt, fashion writer Iain R...
The University of Bath has secured a £1.2m grant to develop a state-of-the art gas turbine laboratory. The University’s Gas Turbine Research Unit is carrying out a new programme of research with industrial giant Siemens focused on its range of gas turbines. The funding was secured from the funding from the Engineering and Physical...
Bath-based main contractor Halsall Construction has defied the gloom in the construction sector by landing orders in January worth three times its monthly average last year. The firm kicked off 2013 by winning orders worth £3.4m against £1m for a typical month in 2012. The work, secured through competitive tendering and negotiation, spans residential,...
The launch of Bath TV, the city’s innovative new digital TV platform, and a demonstration of the new BlackBerry Z10 smartphone were the attractions at the latest in the Circo Series of business networking evenings supported by Bath Business News. Guests at the event, sponsored fast-growing Swindon-based IT and communications firm Excalibur Communications, were...
Bath Tourism Plus and Bath Rugby are linking up to encourage visitors to the city to experience its most popular sport. Advisors in the city’s Visitor Information Centre will, for the first time, be able to promote and sell tickets for all Bath’s home games as well as rugby shirts, caps, key rings and...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com A scheme to boost social enterprises and help them create jobs is to be launched by the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP). Some 10,000 people are already employed in 600 social enterprises across the LEP area – which includes Bristol and Bath – generating a turnover of nearly...
Business services and lobbying group Business West has reached the finals of a competition for chambers of commerce from across the globe. The ICC World Chambers Federation 2013 Competition received entries from 65 chambers of commerce and industry from 42 countries. Business West, which runs the Bath Chamber, is the only British organisation to...
Barclays has provided a £1.3m loan to Bath specialist care home Springfield House to fund a 24-bed extension. The expansion will more than double to 39 the total number of beds at the residential dementia care home on Entry Hill. Staffing levels at the home, which opened in 2010, will increase from 21 to...
The last few stands for a major business show this Friday are available. The Bristol Business Show, staged by Sterling Integrity, returns to the Future Inn, Cabot Circus, pictured, where it was successfully staged last year. Bristol has become one of the most successful locations on Sterling Integrity’s roadshow, attracting local, regional and national...
Inflation unexpectedly remained at 2.7% in January, the fourth month in a row at this level. Economists offered little comfort to hard-pressed households with some forecasting inflation could touch 3% in coming months. The 2.7% figure is the highest since May. The Government’s Office for National Statistics said it was the first time inflation...
