A hundred local businesses are being sought to back next year’s Bath in Fashion Week, which was launched today with Michael Jackson’s costume designer Michael Bush as guest of honour. The ambitious plea for business backing was made at this morning’s VIP preview for next year’s festival, which will again be presented by the...
Bath’s Travelodge Waterside is on the market as one of a package of six properties previously owned by failed hotel group Piccadilly. The 124-bedroom hotel in Rossiter Road, pictured, is leased to Travelodge along with the other five venues. Agent Christie + Co will be marketing the hotels on an individual basis with a...
Bath-based construction firm Halsall has started building the first new council houses in 20 years for Mid Devon District Council. The 22 homes on a site at Crediton are under construction to Code for Sustainable Homes Level 3 standards and feature insulated timber frames, good thermal performance on windows and doors and hot water...
Chippenham-based specialist drugs group Vectura has received a boost potentially worth millions of pounds from the European Commission’s approval of its Seebri Breezhaler lung disease treatment in some parts of the EU. Approval of the drug, an inhaled, once-daily treatment, follows a similar move in Japan last month. It has been developed with Japanese...
Bath-based Stone King has appeared for the first time among the country’s top law firms in The Lawyer UK 200 Annual Report 2012, the prestigious league table which ranks the UK’s leading legal firms by turnover. Stone King, which has offices in Bath, Melksham, Cambridge and London, has 68 lawyers and 25 partners and...
Businesses can gain a competitive advantage by becoming environmentally, economically and socially sustainable, an exclusive conference on responsible capitalism heard. At the same time corporate governance – what businesses must do – and corporate and social responsibility – what they would like to do – are becoming increasingly interlinked, delegates at the event were...
Bath on Ice, the city’s new festive ice rink, has opened for online bookings. Located in Royal Victoria Park, the rink will open daily from 10am to 9pm starting on November 23. One-hour sessions cost from £7 per person including skate hire and gift vouchers, group bookings, Christmas parties and student discounts are available....
West businesses are being warned to prepare for the biggest shake-up in payroll procedures for almost 70 years. From April, all but the largest companies will have to tell the taxman every time they make a payment to employees under HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC) new Real Time Information (RTI) system. Currently, records only...
Budding entrepreneurs looking to start their own businesses in the creative and tech sectors can hear from individuals who have successfully launched their own profitable enterprises at an event this evening staged by Creative Bath. Called ‘What I Wish I’d Known’, it is the latest in a series of panel sessions and brings together a...
Supply chain group Wincanton has won a multi-million pound, five-year contract with supermarket group Morrisons to operate its first dedicated UK convenience distribution centre in London, which opens early next year. The 100,000 sq ft distribution centre will open in Feltham, West London, early next year to supply Morrisons' new M Local format convenience...
