Bath-based specialist engineering firm Rotork is on the takeover trail again after achieving record revenues, profits and order intake last year. The group, which makes complex actuator valves for the global oil and gas industries, made six acquisitions last year as it racked up a 17% increase in pre-tax profits to £116.5m on revenues...
Some of Bath’s most famous venues are combining their resources today to promote their facilities and special brand of hospitality at a business show in Bristol. Called Unique Venues of Bath, the group includes Bath Rugby, the Theatre Royal, Thermae Bath Spa, Bath Racecourse and Bath’s Historic Buildings, which takes in venues such as...
Bristol & Bath Science Park chief executive Bonnie Dean has welcomed the Government’s commitment to manufacturing and the fact that the high-powered summit is being staged at the park. She said: “Today’s national conference showcases the region’s strengths by focusing on the South West’s businesses who have taken considerable commercial risk to turn original...
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has used an official visit to the West to announce an extra £1bn for businesses seeking support to help them grow and create jobs. The cash, part of the Regional Growth Fund (RGF), takes the total fund to £2.4bn and will be available to businesses and public/private partnerships with...
Bath Business News Travel Editor Anne Gorringe has won a prestigious award for the best on-line travel article of the year at a ceremony organised by the Italian State Tourist Board. Anne picked up her trophy at a glittering ceremony in London last night, placing her alongside winning journalists from titles such as The...
TheAgency, the Bath-based creative business, has been appointed .to handle the brand and marketing roll-out of Bristol’s Enterprise Zone, the largest regeneration scheme in the city for decades. According to TheAgency’s partner Saman Mansourpour, the brief is “to draw up brand that encapsulates Bristol’s enterprising culture and showcases its commitment to business now and...
University of Bath spin-out business Earsoft, which is developing an innovative loudness control for audio devices, is in the running to win one of Lloyds TSB’s Enterprise Awards. The firm, based at Bath’s Innovation Centre, is one of 10 businesses challenging in the regional heat of the awards tomorrow. The awards aim to find...
Bath in Fashion 2012 has mined the city’s rich vein of creativity to produce a powerful new image and marketing support to reflect its exciting programme of events. With just over a month before it takes place, the creativity behind Bath in Fashion is now coming to the fore. Steve Haskins of Wick-based So...
Specialist corporate finance advice and on-going support from Bath accountants Monahans has helped food industry entrepreneur Melvin Glynn buy and develop a small cheese processing and wholesale business. Mr Glynn is managing director of fast-growing crisps business Burts but wanted to acquire a business with potential. With a passion for cheese – he was...
Ray Smyth of Swindon-based The IPstore says, “Business Continuity is the result of properly planned, expertly executed IT… It is 100% proactive; the rest is just blind panic…” For an organisation using Information Technology (IT) as a routine part of its day-to-day work, the most modest of problems can cause real frustration, quickly impeding...
