Manufacturers in the South West face a tough year ahead with the sector expected to contract in the face of a deteriorating economic outlook at home and abroad, according to a new survey. The region’s manufacturing businesses are ending 2022 on a low, having suffered falling orders and a cutback in recruitment. But results...
Monday December 12 Interim: Coral Products Economic announcements: Index of Services, Industrial Production, Balance of Trade, Gross Domestic Product Tuesday December 13 Finals: Chemring, Hyve Group, Image Scan Holdings Interim: Sosandar Trading announcement: Ocado Economic announcements: Claimant count rate, unemployment rate Wednesday December 14 Finals: Tui AG, IntegraFin Holdings Interims: Cyanconnode Holdings Economic announcements: Retail price index, Consumer price index, Producer price index...
Bristol Airport is on course to return to its pre-Covid passenger levels next year after its two biggest low-cost airlines Ryanair and easyJet this week announced they are to base more aircraft there and introduce new destinations. Ryanair is to increase its Bristol-based fleet from four to five planes next summer, which will allow...
Businesses and venues from Bath’s tourism and hospitality industries have again landed an armful of accolades at a regional awards ceremony. The Roman Baths and Pump Room, Lucknam Park & Spa and No.15 by GuestHouse, Bath were among the top winners at the Bristol, Bath and Somerset Tourism Awards, with a number of first-time entrants also...
The University of Bath’s car-of-the-future research centre is driving ahead with a pioneering project that could help put zero-emission hydrogen-powered aircraft into commercial use. The Institute of Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems (IAAPS) has teamed up with aircraft parts manufacturer GKN Aerospace to develop hydrogen technology aimed at decarbonising the aviation industry. They will work together on GKN Aerospace’s...
A new innovation and enterprise space has opened on the University of Bath’s campus to provide a space for student entrepreneurs, researchers and graduate start-ups to develop and share ideas for products and services. The E-Lab, pictured, which also offers access to support and mentoring, is a significant expansion of the university’s enterprise services,...
Redde Northgate, the mobility and automotive services group that includes Bath-based specialist vehicle accident management firm Redde, is enroute to make the most of market opportunities next year after clocking up what its CEO called “meaningful growth” over the past six months. Martin Ward said the business extended its fleet by 8% to more...
Each week Bath accountancy firm Pearson May and Bath Business News team up to bring you the top national finance stories. One in four small firms fear closure Businesses are increasingly concerned if energy relief ends next spring. Find out more here SMEs owed £23.4bn in late payments A government review into outstanding invoices to be launched. Click here to find...
Bath’s only Michelin-starred chef, Chris Cleghorn of the Olive Tree Restaurant, has been named the Hotel Restaurant Chef of the Year at the hotel industry ‘Oscars’, the Hotel Cateys. The prestigious awards celebrate the UK’s most successful hotel operators and their employees and are the industry’s only truly independent benchmark of operational excellence, with...
Bath Spa University has become one of the first in the UK to benefit from a link-up with US software giant Adobe which will boost its students’ digital capability and better prepare them for the modern workplace. Under the partnership, only the third between Adobe and a British university, Bath Spa students get free...
