Shepton Mallet Cider Mill has launched a £1m investment programme for new orchards and schemes for greater sustainability. Unveiled at a recent consultation event with growers and other experts, the scheme has already been positively received. It could fund new orchards totalling more than 500 acres, producing more than 10,000 tonnes of apples for...
Overcoming language and cultural barriers can be difficult, and expensive, for small exporters. But Bath-based ESPA UK believes it has the cost-effective answer – by arranging six-month work placements of European undergraduates. By utilising the language and business skills of students from EU nations, small firms will be able to research new markets, translate...
Bath law firm Mogers has given the gift of light to the city’s Holburne Museum this Christmas by supporting a new major installation. Circuit: A Light Labyrinth, a new artwork by Martin Richman and Charlie Kerr, is unique to the museum and follows the success of Bruce Munro’s Field of Light installation last year....
Fast-growing Bath advertising firm The Agency has been appointed by Superfast Cornwall – the pioneering broadband partnership between the EU, BT and Cornwall Council – to handle its latest advertising campaign. The Agency has planned, created and is now delivering the £132m initiative’s integrated press and online advertising campaign. Superfast Cornwall aims to make...
Chancellor George Osborne needs to bring in measures to boost housebuilding, halt spiralling transport costs and simplify taxes for small firms if he wants the region’s businesses to help deliver the economic recovery. The plea has come from tax and business experts at Bishop Fleming, the South West accountancy firm which opened in Bath...
Bath area firms should look beyond the much talked about BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) when developing their export plans by also considering the rapidly -growing economies of the Middle East and North Africa. The message comes from HSBC following its latest Global Connections Trade Forecast research which shows that while BRIC...
Bath-based brand and design agency Mytton Williams has won two awards for its work with the West of England Design Forum (WEDF), the voice of the design industry in the region and a network for creatives. The company won the Branding award in the regional Media Innovation Awards (MIA) and a bronze at the...
New rules affecting expatriate workers will come under the spotlight at a seminar next week staged by accountants and business advisers Grant Thornton. The breakfast event on December 6 will also act as the regional launch of the Forum for Expatriate Management (FEM) the international organisation that provides advice for expats’ their professional advisers,...
Monday November 26 INTERIMS GB Group, Immunodiagnostic Systems Holdings, Quintain Estates & Development Q3 Espirito Santo Financial Group SA FINALS Aberdeen Asset Management, Infrastrata AGMS Aisi Realty Public Ltd. (DI), Origin Enterprises, West Pioneer Properties Ltd. (DI) Tuesday November 27 INTERIMS Caledonia Investments, De La Rue, Findel, KCOM Group, Naspers Ltd. ADR, Plastics Capital,...
Wind and rain failed to put a dampener on the opening of Bath’s Christmas markets last night. The opening celebrations – complete with the traditional lantern procession – went ahead, just before the heavens opened. With 139 chalet-style stalls, this year’s Christmas markets are the biggest and best in the 12-year history of the...
