Zenith International, the Bath company that provides corporate information to the global food and drink industries, has acquired US news, data and conference company Beverage Digest. The New York-based firm publishes one of the industry’s most influential newsletters covering the non-alcoholic drinks industry and holds two conferences a year. Its newsletter was launched in...
More than half the businesses in the South West fear they will not be able to recruit enough high-skilled workers for their future success, according to an alarming new report. The annual CBI/Pearson Education and Skills Survey – which gauged the views of 101 firms across the region – found that 68% say they...
Manufacturing group Avon Rubber has acquired an Italian firm making specialist milking products for €29.75m (£20.7m). Melksham-based Avon said InterPuls would broaden its product range, client base and geographic reach and boost growth opportunities for its dairy division. The acquisition is expected to significantly enhance earnings in its 2016 financial year. Family-owned InterPuls, based between...
Cardok UK, the Bath-based firm aiming to revolutionise parking, has agreed a distributor deal with Harrington Generators International (HGI) to provide home standby generators for its underground home car parking systems HGI – a leading supplier of generators to the rail, defence, oil, gas and water industries – will supply 8kw and 14kw standby...
Bath-based global engineering group Rotork has hit the acquisition trail, snapping up Italian valve manufacturer M&M International for €9.7m (£6.9m). The deal was announced as the firm unveiled falls in half-year pre-tax profits and revenues due to what it described as a challenging trading environment. Pre-tax profits during the six months to June 30...
The West of England’s ambitions to attract more inward investment and boost its level of exports were highlighted this week with the visit of trade and investment minister Lord Francis Maude. Lord Maude met a cross section of small and medium-sized firms and recent investors in the area along with representatives from engineering giant...
Logistics group Wincanton has won a contract with BAE Systems to supply its Military Air & Information (MAI) operations, extending a 10-year relationship between the Chippenham-based firm and defence giant. Under the contract Wincanton will also become the operator of a new purpose-built Defence Logistics Centre, due to be completed next year in the...
SETsquared, the globally recognised innovation incubator with a base in Bath, has been shortlisted for a prestigious award for its work in nurturing a new generation of university entrepreneurs. The partnership of the universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey is shortlisted in the Higher Education Enterprise Champion category of the National Enterprise...
Motion capture technology pioneered by the visual entertainment industry will be harnessed to help improve prosthetic limbs for amputees and training of elite athletes in a new research centre based at the University of Bath. The studio for the new £5m Centre for the Analysis of Motion, Entertainment Research & Applications (CAMERA) at the...
Marshfield Bakery managing director Chris Smith, who last month won a regional Institute of Directors (IoD) award for the second year running, is in the running for a national IoD accolade. Chris scooped the title of Best Small Company Director at the South West Director of the Year awards. Last year he landed the...
