A planning application for Hitachi Capital Commercial Vehicle Services’ (HCCVS) new headquarters in Trowbridge has been submitted to Wiltshire Council. The fast-growing firm wants to move from its existing base on the Canal Road Industrial Estate, which it will soon be too small, and has identified a greenfield site near the White Horse Business...
Serial entrepreneur and former BBC2 Dragons’ Den panellist Doug Richard is among the speakers at a free-to-attend business advice event later this month. 'Save Money, Make Money’ promises to help business owners tackle inefficiencies and boost their profitability and is aimed at fast-growing companies with a focus on the West’s creative industries. It is...
Herald Electronics, the Midsomer Norton-based sub-contract electronics manufacturer, has gone into administration with the loss of 54 jobs. David Gilbert and Graham Randall of BDO have been appointed joint administrators. They had hoped to arrange a managed wind-down of the business with the support of customers and suppliers but, due to the firm’s heavy...
The Government is failing to address the problems of small businesses, particularly the lack of access to finance, West business leaders have told the director general of British Chambers of Commerce during a visit to the region. John Longworth was in Bristol to meet Business West, the region’s business lobbying and advice that also...
Luxury fashion brand Mulberry has confirmed it is to open a second factory in Somerset, creating 300 jobs, as global demand for its upmarket handbags and other accessories spirals. The firm, which employs 250 people at its factory in Chilcompton, near Midsomer Norton, said the new plant – to be built in Bridgwater –...
A high-profile business delegation from Northern Ireland has visited the Bristol & Bath Science Park to find out more about its success in fostering innovation. The visitors, from the Northern Ireland Science Park and Government advisors, were interested learning how the park at Emersons Green had factored in the design of its first buildings...
Accountants Old Mill are closing their Shepton Mallet office, where the firm was founded more than 80 years ago, to move to a new carbon-friendly building six miles away in Wells. Work has already started on the 18,000 sq ft office on Cathedral Park which will be powered by photovoltaic panels, heated and cooled...
George Osborne had originally planned to withdraw child benefit from all higher rate tax-payers, but had a change of heart in his 2012 Budget announcement, following criticism that this would be unfair on single income families and those earning just over the higher tax rate threshold. From January 2013, the only people to lose...
Design houses and businesses with an interest in new and upcoming designers are being invited to a special viewing on Monday evening of Bath School of Art and Design’s 2012 textile design for fashion and interiors degree show. Covering a range of knit, embroidery and print work, the show is the finale of the...
Bath-based equine artist Stuart James Knowles, who has sold his paintings to celebrities including Madonna and Guy Ritchie, returns to his home city later this month with an exhibition at the Walcot Chapel Gallery. Stuart’s oil paintings of horses are proving more popular than ever – a fact he puts down to the success...
