The full speaker line-up has been announced for the biggest TEDxBath so far. Taking place in The Forum tomorrow, Saturday 15 October, the event is expected to attract up to 1,600 attendees to hear speakers ranging in age from 12 to 82 deliver changing perspectives through mind-opening talks. Organisers say the aim is to...
Bath’s longest-serving retail property agent Mike McElhinney is to join the city office of real estate consultancy CSquared as a partner. Mike, pictured, will specialise in the retail and leisure sectors, working alongside CSquared’s existing team in Bath. He spent more than 26 years with King Sturge (later JLL), working in – and later...
A raft of contract wins and the takeover of a specialist eCommerce fulfilment firm helped revenue drive ahead at national logistics group Wincanton. In a trading update to shareholders the Chippenham-headquartered business also said it was managing to manage inflationary pressures by passing on cost increases to its customers. Revenue for the six months...
The University of Bath has powered up its research and innovation capability by becoming the first UK university to move all possible high performance computing workloads into the cloud. Named ‘Nimbus’, the switch to Microsoft Azure Cloud will rapidly speed up scientific discovery processes and allow researchers to carry out more advanced computationally intensive...
Conservative MPs are going to make life for Prime Minister Liz Truss as difficult as their Labour counterparts did for Jeremy Corbyn when he was their leader, political columnist and broadcaster Ayesha Hazarika has told the region’s business leaders. Speaking at the South West CBI’s annual dinner, she predicted the political waters would get...
Monday October 10 Trading announcements: Sirius Real Estate, Unite Tuesday October 11 Finals: YouGov, SCS Group Interims: Sanderson Design Group, Eneraqua technologies, Smartspace Software Trading announcement: Reach Economic announcements: Retail sales, Claimant count rate Wednesday October 12 Finals: ASOS, Kin and Carta Trading announcement: Novolipetsk Steel Regs Economic announcements: Manufacturing production, Index of services, Balance of Trade, Industrial production, Gross domestic product...
Chris May, the founding director of Bath specialist software house Mayden, has been recognised as one of the UK’s most ambitious business leaders. The 50-strong list, produced by private equity firm LDC, celebrates the inspiring individuals behind some of the UK’s most successful and fast-growing medium-sized firms. Supported by The Times and now in...
Bath workplace design company Interaction has unveiled its latest cutting-edge project – a flexible office that promotes collaborative working at intellectual property law firm Withers & Rogers. The 4,866 sq ft workspace in Bristol’s Castlemead office complex has been designed around the firm’s new hybrid business model and features a mix of collaborative meeting...
Bristol and London law firm Temple Bright has carried out a rebranding exercise in collaboration with Bath-based design agency Design for Digital. At the heart of the project is a new website for the firm - www.templebright.com – which includes two new short films aimed at clients and lawyers. Temple Bright was founded in Bristol in...
Fewer than one in 10 businesses in the South West have confidence in the UK’s economic prospects, with a record 73% fearful over the impact of inflation, according to new survey. At the same time the number of firms concerned about exchange rates has doubled, with a third of exporters suffering a fall-off in...
