SETsquared, the University of Bath-backed innovation partnership, has hosted an event for its member firms to help them get into the driving seat for automotive technology. It invited its start-up companies with a potential link to the auto industry to meet experts from Ford and Visa Europe and other major companies to discuss future technology. ...
A warehouse has come onto the market, offering expanding businesses the rare chance to buy their own building on a sought-after business park. The 10,000 sq ft unit on the Bumpers Farm industrial estate in Chippenham, pictured, was most recently used as a fitness centre. It is being marketed jointly by the Swindon office of regional...
Bath-based mechanical electrical and civil engineering contractor Northavon M&E plans to expand and open two regional offices following investment in the business by three newly appointed directors. Paul Halfpenny, former managing director of Cheltenham-based specialist construction and civil engineering contractor Britannia Construction, this week joined Northavon as CEO. His arrival coincides with the board appointments of...
Profits at Bath-based advanced engineering group Rotork tumbled by nearly a third in the first half of this year as the low oil price combined with political uncertainty across the world to hit its key markets. The firm, which makes valves and actuators for the global oil and gas markets, warned that the rest...
The on-off, on-off Hinkley Point C rollercoaster may have failed to come to its expected conclusion on Thursday, but work on the massive site goes on, as Business West managing director Phil Smith found when he visited it last week. Thirty tonnes with one scoop! That’s what each of the three massive yellow diggers...
Melksham-based Avon Tyres has signed a sponsorship deal with Sky Bet Championship team Derby County for the upcoming 2016/17 season. Under the agreement, the firm’s logo will appear on the back of the side’s first-team shirts and shorts for the entire campaign, which kicks off this Saturday. Avon, which makes high-performance car and motorcycle...
The £1bn devolution deal and the West of England combined authority formed by it would increase control and resources for business including: Integrated and locally relevant inward investment and trade services, led by Invest in Bristol & Bath Support for developing the West of England Growth Hub Increased support for the Bristol & Bath...
West of England business leaders have called on the Government to make a speedy decision and approve the new Hinkley Point C nuclear power station after it forced another delay of the £18bn project at the 11th hour last week. The plans were thrown into chaos by the Government last Thursday just hours after being...
The go-ahead for a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point is expected to be announced this evening, triggering a multi-billion pound boost for the West of England’s economy. The board of French energy company EDF is expected to approve the £18bn plant – which will take 10 years to build – later today...
The growing popularity of Bath Ales’ flagship Gem bitter has helped the brewery achieve its best ever year for grocery sales. Its supermarket sales grew by 14% last year to £3.5m as demand for craft beer continued to spiral. The increase put Bath Ales in third position in a table of the top 20...
