Sustainable energy initiative Regen SW is to hold its annual Renewable Futures event at the Assembly Rooms in Bath. The event, on November 20, provides businesses with a key opportunity to gain market insights and to do business. The conference part of the event attracts a unique line up of high level speakers...
Business West, the business support group which runs Bath Chamber of Commerce, has broadly welcomed the Heseltine review into UK competitiveness. The independent report, drawn up by former Tory Cabinet minister Lord Heseltine, makes 89 recommendations which aim to inject stability into the economy, create the conditions for growth and maximise the performance of...
Bath Business News has teamed up with some of the area’s foremost businesses to launch the Expert Panel series. Each week a leading individual from these firms will look at a topic of interest to businesses in the city and surrounding towns and villages, ranging from legal issues to financial planning and from corporate...
Avagio, the Chippenham-based ‘digital office’ specialist, has launched a series of free guides to help managers and owners of small businesses make more of their IT investment. The six guides in the Stress-Free IT series aim to eliminate technology headaches. They cover: * How and why business is becoming technically complicated * Avoiding project...
Bluebird Care Bath, the local franchise of the national care in the home provider, has appointed Angela Clifford as care manager. Angela, a behaviour management specialist and former college lecturer, arrives with more than 20 years’ experience of working in the industry. She is working with the 70-strong Bluebird Care team covering Bath &...
The University of Bath could be about to join the Russell Group of elite UK universities after quitting the 1994 Group of small research-intensive universities. Bath vice-chancellor Dame Glynis Breakwell yesterday said continued membership of the 1994 Group “does not reflect the type of university we are”. The university, which has around 15,000 students,...
Chippenham-based specialist software group SciSys has acquired German firm MakaluMedia Internet & Engineering Services, which provides software engineering and consultancy to the European space industry, for €2.32m (£1.87m). SciSys, which has its roots in the European space sector, said the acquisition will enhance its already strong franchise in the industry by adding to its...
Bath law firm Stone King has appointed independent schools expert John Clarke as a partner in its rapidly-expanding education sector team, which acts for more than 500 educational organisations across the UK. John, pictured, was previously senior partner and headed the education and employment teams at Cheltenham-based education specialists Rickerbys and more recently has...
Bristol Airport yesterday added the 13th European capital city to its destination board when low-cost airline Ryanair launched its service to Warsaw. The route is Ryanair’s seventh to Poland from Bristol and brings to 18 the total number of destinations served by the Irish budget operator from the airport. Bristol Airport aviation director Shaun...
Upbeat comments by Bath law firm Withy King’s trainees have put it among the country’s legal elite in a unique online guide. The Lex 100 is based on comments made by trainee solicitors in a comprehensive nationwide survey which gauges their satisfaction – or otherwise – with their firms in 10 areas spanning job...
