Accountancy giant EY is to open a business research innovation technology and engineering (BRiTE) hub in the South West to help boost the region’s fast-growing FinTech sector. The hub aims to ramp up capabilities in financial services design, data analytics and engineering and create practical and tangible solutions to some of the big challenges...
Monday January 9 Trading announcements: Intermediate Capital Group, Cairn Homes Tuesday January 10 Interim: Games Workshop Group Trading announcement: RS Group Economic announcements: RICS housing market survey, Retail sales Wednesday January 11 Trading announcements: Grafton Group, Vistry Group, Sainsbury (J), PageGroup, Barratt Developments, JD Sports Fashion, Ten Entertainment Group Thursday January 12 Trading announcements: Omv Petrom, Dechra Pharmaceuticals, Persimmon, Tesco,...
The achievements of business figures from the Bath area along with those from the not-for-profit sector have been recognised in the New Year’s Honours list for 2023. Toby Sutton and Jack Churchill, pictured, co-founders of tech innovator Scanning Pens, which produces pens that help dyslexic children and adults to read, received OBEs for services to international trade...
Bath’s office market rebounded from the impact of the Covid pandemic quicker than most other towns and cities in the South West in 2022 with activity soaring by nearly two-thirds between the second and third quarters, according to new research. Just under 23,000 sq ft of office space in the city was leased...
Confidence among South West businesses continued to rise in December after a surprise recovery the previous month – with firms ending the year in a rare upbeat mood. The latest monthly Business Barometer from Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking reveals firms reported higher confidence in their own business prospects month-on-month, up 15 percentage points at 34%. Taken alongside their optimism in the economy, up 10...
Bath’s Forest of Imagination contemporary arts and architecture festival, which brings together many of the city’s creatives, has won a prestigious national award. The annual pop-up event for all ages, now in its 10th year, topped the ‘one off activity – children’ category of the Inspire Future Generations (IFG) Awards. The festival, which brought...
World-leading action to help tackle the climate emergency by cutting emissions from buildings will be taken by Bath & North East Somerset Council this year in a link-up with the University of Bath. The council will draw on the pioneering expertise of the university’s academics to bring in a cutting-edge set of sustainable construction...
A Bath construction specialist is helping identify new markets for an award-winning cycle storage business after it was hit by Brexit red tape and the economic downturn. Dan Grimshaw, pictured right, who lives in Hinton Charterhouse and owns London-based design and construction firm Beam Development, is mentoring entrepreneur Andrew Lang, whose business Cycloc is...
Water2business, the specialist retailer co-owned by Bath-based Wessex Water, has extended its partnership with UK-wide café chain Coffee#1 for a further two years. Having set up the agreement two years ago, Water2business will continue to provide water and wastewater services to 84 of Coffee#1’s 100 sites. The firm’s dedicated account management team will continue...
Bath Building Society has promoted its head of business change Steve Burnard to the new role of chief transformation officer as it enters its busiest period of change in its 119-year history. The society, which has more than 20,000 savers and 1,200 mortgage customers, said its focus this year would on digital transformation. Steve,...
