RFL, the Chippenham-based communications infrastructure and outsourced IT service provider, has made two strategic acquisitions after receiving a £3.5m investment from the BGF (Business Growth Fund). The firm’s takeover of Chippenham-based IT Solutions 4 Business Limited (ITS) and Plymouth-based IT support firm Zantra Technology means RFL will double in size. From April 7 the...
Bath-based asset management group Chelverton has completed the first deal this year for its investor club with a growth capital investment into Hypersonica, an early stage technology business. London-based Hypersonica Safe Search is a mobile application which combines internet search results from the world’s leading providers with premium consumer internet security. The application gives...
Bath’s new Riverside Enterprise Area will give it the chance to become the world’s best small city, with an internationally-renowned creative sector attracting talented people. The ambition, unveiled to the city’s business leaders last week in a new ‘vision for Bath’, will build on its Roman and Georgian heritage to create a 21st century...
The West of England’s strength in innovation and its high quality of life is being showcased in Westminster this afternoon with a giant map being unveiled to MPs, Lords and and other key government figures. Compiled by the area’s Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), the map and accompanying policy document champions the area’s success stories...
The Royal Navy has awarded specialist engineering firm SEA a five-year, £1.4m contract to support its weapon systems. Under the contract, SEA, based at Beckington near Frome, will provide its expertise to the Navy’s magazine torpedo launch system (MTLS), the SeaGnat decoy launcher and a range of air weapons handling equipment used onboard Navy...
Manufacturing companies across the West of England have increased output and investment over recent months, resulting in new jobs and a brighter outlook than most other regions of the UK. The upbeat picture emerged from a major survey published today which also showed the slump in the oil price has had little impact so...
Barclays has become the latest blue-chip company to sponsor Business Showcase South West 2015 – the region’s biggest business exhibition which returns for a second year in May. Barclays joins First Great Western and Enterprise Rent-a-car in sponsoring the event staged again at Bristol’s Colston Hall. Following last year’s successful debut as a one-day...
Intellectual property law firm EIP is hosting an evening seminar in Bath next month on how to plan an effective innovation strategy from product concept to commercialisation. Speakers include EIP partners Gary Moss, Paula Flutter and Richard Gordon-Brown. They will be joined by James Lamb of Bath-based industrial designers Lamb Industries and Graham Maile...
The Indian market will be demystified and the commercial opportunities outlined at a seminar for West of England firms next week. Speaking at the event in Castle Combe, near Chippenham, on Thursday March 5, will be Siddharth Mukne, business adviser at the UK India Business Council, and Waseem Hussain, internationally renowned expert on doing...
A future Labour government would support business in the West of England – not damage it – by creating a more prosperous Britain and investing in skills and new technologies, Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls said this week. Launching the party’s business plan for the region, he dismissed suggestions that Labour was anti-business, insisting it...
