A free online calendar of business events and networking opportunities has been launched by the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), the organisation tasked with creating 95,000 jobs by 2030. Business Navigator is the first LEP-backed service of its type to go live anywhere in the UK. It provides business people in and...
Some 58% of South West manufacturers expect to increase sales over the next six months, up 7% on the last quarter and 10% higher than in the same period last year, according to the latest South West Barometer from the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS). Manufacturers’ confidence is further reflected in an appetite for investment with...
Monday November 05 INTERIMS Active Risk Group, E2V Technologies Q3 Inmarsat, PostNL NV FINALS Egdon Resources AGMS Merchant House Group, TR European Growth Trust UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS Official Reserves (09:30) Tuesday November 06 INTERIMS Babcock International Group, DCC, Endace Ltd, First Derivatives, Indian Hotels Company Ltd. GDR (Reg S), Marks & Spencer Group, Zhejiang...
Bath law firm Thrings has helped online sex toy retailer Lovehoney, also based in the city, secure a deal to sell products inspired by the best-selling erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey. Partner Graeme Fearon led negotiations for exclusive world rights outside the Americas allowing Lovehoney to design, manufacture and sell what it calls...
Radstock-based print and mail company CFH has acquired the shares and assets of Print For Business (PFB), a £4.5m turnover print and mail business based in Slough. The acquisition is CFH’s second in the past 12 months. A year it took over FST Technologies, a print and mail business based in Livingston and East Kilbride,...
Sustainable energy initiative Regen SW is to hold its annual Renewable Futures event at the Assembly Rooms in Bath. The event, on November 20, provides businesses with a key opportunity to gain market insights and to do business. The conference part of the event attracts a unique line up of high level speakers...
Business West, the business support group which runs Bath Chamber of Commerce, has broadly welcomed the Heseltine review into UK competitiveness. The independent report, drawn up by former Tory Cabinet minister Lord Heseltine, makes 89 recommendations which aim to inject stability into the economy, create the conditions for growth and maximise the performance of...
Bath Business News has teamed up with some of the area’s foremost businesses to launch the Expert Panel series. Each week a leading individual from these firms will look at a topic of interest to businesses in the city and surrounding towns and villages, ranging from legal issues to financial planning and from corporate...
Avagio, the Chippenham-based ‘digital office’ specialist, has launched a series of free guides to help managers and owners of small businesses make more of their IT investment. The six guides in the Stress-Free IT series aim to eliminate technology headaches. They cover: * How and why business is becoming technically complicated * Avoiding project...
Bluebird Care Bath, the local franchise of the national care in the home provider, has appointed Angela Clifford as care manager. Angela, a behaviour management specialist and former college lecturer, arrives with more than 20 years’ experience of working in the industry. She is working with the 70-strong Bluebird Care team covering Bath &...
