A top Government adviser is the latest senior Whitehall official to tour the Bristol & Bath Science Park. Professor John Perkins, chief scientific advisor at the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, joined 30 guests from the advanced manufacturing sector for a broad-ranging discussion over lunch at the park with the theme of encouraging...
A rare opportunity to buy a large office building with plenty of parking on Bath's outskirts has come about due to relocation by two major firms in the city. Lawrence House, a prominent 1970s building on Lower Bristol Road, has come on the market following accountants Bishop Fleming’s move next door to Minerva House...
UKTI, the Government’s export help and advice organisation, has appointed Antoaneta Becker as its new China trade adviser for the South West. Antoaneta, pictured below, who spent 20 years studying and working in mainland China, will bring a fresh perspective to the region’s long-standing trade relationship with one of the world’s biggest markets and...
Bath Ales, the independent brewer and pub operator, is to increase its brewing capacity by almost 40% following delivery of two new fermenting vessels. Each can produce around 30,000 extra pints of Bath Ales’ cask beers a year – taking overall output to just over 25,000 barrels. The investment is part of the continued...
1pm, the Bath-based specialist lender to small firms, today revealed a 116% increase in annual pre-tax profits as it continues to exploit the gap in the market caused by the high-street banks reining in their lending. Revenues at 1pm were up 21% to £2.31m in the year to May 31 with Pre-tax profits coming...
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Barclays has announced additional funding of up to £60m for start-up firms in England over the next three years. This new funding is expected to support the creation of 4,200 new businesses, providing them with growth finance. The funding from Barclays will support a new partnership between the bank, a consortium of enterprise agencies...
West business leaders have welcomed the Government’s pledge to contribute £500m to the much-needed rail link from Heathrow Airport to the region. The commitment, which came from Transport Secretary Justine Greening as part of a new draft aviation policy framework, could now mean building the long-awaited spur line into the airport will go ahead....
The West’s mid-market businesses see no signs of the region’s economy returning to growth this year, according to a downbeat new survey. Also they do not believe that the funding environment will improve for at least another 18 months, further restraining growth. The gloomy outlook emerges from the latest Mid-Market Business Survey carried out...
Bath law firm Stone King has advised the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) on the charity law aspects of the largest ever transfer of a public body into the charity sector. Earlier this month responsibility for 2,000 miles of waterways in England and Wales transferred from British Waterways to a new...
