Revenue from Santa Special trains run by Avon Valley Railway, the three-mile long heritage line near Bath, increased by 18% in the run-up to Christmas. The trains, which operated every weekend from November 25 until Christmas Eve, carried more than 11,500 passengers – all of whom got to meet Santa, with every child receiving...
Property and construction professionals in the Bath area are being urged to follow in the footsteps of the teams behind the city’s Dyson Centre for Neo Natal Care and Batheaston Primary School who last year landed two of the South West’s leading building awards. The neo natal centre and school were category winners in...
The owners of Bath on Ice, the city’s festive ice rink, have confirmed they will return next Christmas after enjoying huge success in their first year. The rink, in Royal Victoria Park, featured in Visit England’s and Reader’s Digest’s top 10 lists of festive ice rinks and attractions and also received national radio and...
Solar Communications has increased its workforce by more than 50% and its turnover by a third with the takeover of Armstrong Communications for an undisclosed sum. Based at Sheldon, near Chippenham, Solar is a fully-converged voice and data communications reseller employing 45 staff and with a turnover of more than £10m. Manchester-based Armstrong Communications,...
Monday January 14 TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS Hydrogen Group, Taylor Wimpey Tuesday January 15 INTERIMS IG Group Holdings AGMS Conygar Investment Company, Spirit Pub Company TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS Brown (N.) Group, Burberry Group, Michael Page International UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS Balance of Trade (09:30) Producer Price Index (09:30) Wednesday January 16 AGMS Diploma, Majedie Investments TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS Barratt...
Iain Fox, director at Bath-based employee benefits specialist Fidelius, continues Bath Business News’ weekly Expert Panel by explaining how a New Year resolution to get healthy can be good for businesses as well as individuals. New Year’s resolutions can become just wishful thoughts by the end of January, if not before. Many resolutions focus...
Bath-based audiobook group AudioGO has strengthened its business in the North American by acquiring US firm Blackstone Audio for an undisclosed amount. AudioGO, formerly BBC Audiobooks, already has operations in Rhode Island with offices in New York as well as its UK headquarters in Bath and an office in London. It has a catalogue...
Rugby world cup winner Will Greenwood will be the headline speaker at Bath financial services technology firm Ascentric’s 2013 conferences. The events, which take place next month in three locations across the UK, have the theme ‘Getting fit for a post-RDR world’ looking at how the financial advice industry is working following the introduction...
The Hobsons Choice kitchen showroom in Bath is in the running for a top award less than two months after it opened. The kitchen design and installation company launched the London Road outlet last November. The Bulthaup kitchen showroom complements Hobsons Choice’s established Swindon store and displays the latest and best Bulthaup design. It...
Network Rail has pledged to improve services across the West and on the main Great Western line into London as it continues the biggest investment in the region’s railways since the Victorian era. But it also warned that tough choices needed to be made if the industry is to meet the competing challenges of...
