Rapid-growth tech firms from the Bath area are being invited to enter one of the sector’s longest-running annual awards schemes as it prepares to showcase another group of highly successful and innovative companies. Now in its 26th year, the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 ranks the UK’s fastest-growing tech firms based on the last four years of revenue...
Hopes that small business confidence levels in the South West are bouncing back have been dashed by the results of a new survey, reflecting firms’ concerns over the economic outlook. But while there has been a fall in confidence among the region’s smaller companies, some positive signs have emerged over their own growth aspirations....
A social enterprise is offering Bath firms the chance to take part in outdoors team-building days while also helping local communities and the environment thrive. Charity Your Park Bristol & Bath has launched the team days in response to the shift to hybrid working by many businesses, which has created a need for them...
More than 350 businesses from across the South West have already expressed an interest in applying for finance from a new £200m regional investment fund just weeks after its launch. The government-backed South West Investment Fund (SWIF), which was unveiled last month by the British Business Bank, aims to increase the supply and diversity...
One of the co-founders of Bath global success story Lovehoney is teeing up a new business venture – this time in the more conservative world of golf. Richard Longhurst started sexual wellness firm Lovehoney in 2002 with £4,500 savings after leaving his job as a magazine editor at Future Publishing in Bath. By the...
Bath homeless charity Julian House is inviting the city’s firms to sharpen up their wits and enter a team for this year’s Brain of Bath quiz. The annual event, now in its 22nd year, is a major fundraiser for the charity as well as a source of intense – but friendly – rivalry between...
Confidence levels among businesses in the South West have bounced back from the gloom of earlier this year – making the region one of only two to register an increase in optimism. Overall confidence rose five points last month to 34%, while companies in the region became far more upbeat about their own business...
Bath area employers are being invited to take part in a new £2m programme that will support hundreds of individuals across the West of England to learn new skills. The scheme, launched by the West of England Combined Authority (WECA), is designed to plug the skills gaps in the region that are slowing the...
One of the UK’s largest regional fund managers has opened a West of England office to provide finance to small and medium-sized business through the British Business Bank’s new £200m South West Investment Fund. FW Capital will manage the debt finance fund for the north of the region, providing commercial loans of £100,000 to £2m...
Bath-headquartered spectacles designer and manufacturer Inspecs has continued to recover from a difficult 2022 by focussing on driving sales and improving operational efficiencies, its CEO said this week. Revenue at the group, which produces a wide range of spectacle frames and lenses, including sunglasses and safety glasses, for markets across the world, increased by 6%...
