Bath Business News wishes all its readers, advertisers and supporters a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Our weekly e-bulletin will return on January 2 – we hope you will have better things to do next Wednesday (Boxing Day) than read an edition of Bath Business News. In the meantime,...
Bath Business News’ weekly Expert Panel series continues with Nicola Owen, partner at Bath law firm Mogers, urging farmers not to gamble with their retirement. These days we are seeing an increase in the number of farmers creating new businesses in order to diversify. As farmers grow older and their health deteriorates it may...
Bath exercise firm Zest Bootcamp has declared a charity chocolate ‘amnesty’ which allows the sweet-toothed to trade in their unhealthy Christmas treats in return for a free workout session. All chocolates handed in to Zest will be donated to homeless shelter charity Julian House. Zita Alves from Zest said: “Everybody has an excess of...
Former regional director of Arts & Business and one-time front of house and marketing assistant at Theatre Royal Bath has joined Bristol’s ground-breaking media centre and café/bar Watershed as general manager. James Taljaard, pictured, takes on the new senior position to focus on further developing the venue’s award-winning conference and events service. Bath-educated James...
Bath Rotary and University of Bath RAG have donated £10,000 to the city’s Peggy Dodd Centre to pay towards a lift that will double the number of Alzheimer’s carers it can support. The money was raised from a firework display at The Rec last month – a joint venture for the second year running...
Monday December 17 AGMS Aeorema Communications, Churchill Mining, Jubilee Platinum, Physiomics, Proactis Holdings, Spectra Systems Corporation TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS Aggreko UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS Rightmove house price index for December (00:01) Tuesday December 18 INTERIMS OSJC Center for Cargo Container Traffic Transcontainer GDR (Reg S), Park Group Q3 OSJC Center for Cargo Container Traffic Transcontainer GDR...
My bank has turned down my request for a loan. What alternative funding sources are available and how can I access them? Despite pledges from the Government to increase lending to smaller businesses, many firms are still finding it increasingly difficult to obtain finance from their banks. However, a ‘no’ from your bank does...
Direct flights from Bristol Airport to Corsica are to be launched next summer. Tour operator Corsican Places will operate the service to Bastia in North East Corsica every Sunday for 13 weeks between June 23 and September 22, chartering aircraft from airline bmi regional. The two-and-a-half-hour flights will be aboard 47-seater aircraft and departure...
Bath-based marine survey group GEMS has gone into administration following the loss of major contracts. Some 132 staff across the group, which also has bases in Devizes, Gravesend and Middlesbrough, have been made redundant. Zelf Hussain, Rob Hunt and Rob Lewis of accountants PwC were appointed joint administrators last week. They have kept on...
Atlas Genetics, the Trowbridge-based diagnostic company developing ultra-rapid point-of-care (POC) tests for a range of infectious diseases, is to collaborate with the Health Protection Agency to assess the potential benefits of using its system to detect chlamydia. Atlas will help develop a user-friendly tool to model the costs, benefits and uncertainties of POC testing...
