Bath in Fashion has launched a series of successful YouTube films interviewing some of the high-profile celebrities from the world of fashion involved in Bath in Fashion 2012. The Bath in Fashion You Tube Channel has already received 3,500 hits. The team behind the festival, which takes place between March 23 and April 1,...
Fast-growth companies looking for investment to take their business to the next level are being offered help through a £200m of growth capital fund launched by Santander bank. Loans are available to businesses with an annual turnover of up to £10m which have a demonstrated history of high year-on-year growth in turnover, profit or...
Professionals in Bath who work with parents in dispute over their children are being given a unique insight into a pioneering parenting programme. The free training event, staged by Bath law firm Stone King’s family law and mediation team on March 28 in conjunction with Bristol Family Mediation, will give professionals a chance to ...
A new forum to showcase manufacturing in the West and share best practice has staged its inaugural meeting. SWIM (South West Innovative Manufacturing) was launched at the National Composites Centre (NCC) on the Bristol & Bath Science Park with the message that, while facing some tough challenges, manufacturing is alive and well in the...
Interest is growing rapidly in Rabbit South West, the region’s most innovative business exhibition, with just one day to go. Delegate registrations for the show, which takes place on Tuesday at Brunel’s Old Station, Temple Meads, Bristol, have doubled over the past week and are still rising strongly. Businesses from across the West of...
Chippenham-based Complete Business Gifts is celebrating a decade of reinforcing its clients' advertising campaigns with its vast range of promotional items. Many new and innovative promotional gifts have come on to the market within the last ten years but old favourites such as pens and mugs are still highly favoured. Currently, branded USB's...
High growth Bath IT firm Gradwell has received a £1.15m investment to make its expansion even faster with the aim of becoming four times its current size in just four years. The firm, which provides VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) telephony and internet services to mainly small businesses, was founded in 1998 by Dr...
Bath businesses are being urged to back a new campaign started by three mums to open a series of 10 public drinking fountains across the city. Love Tap Water (LTW) will launch in April with a prototype fountain in St James’s Rampire, the public space opposite City of Bath College. The idea is to...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com Bristol Rovers have today unveiled detailed plans for their new stadium at the University of the West of England. The club could be playing home matches at ‘The UWE’ at the start of the 2014/15 season if plans to build a new 21,700 all-seater arena next to the Frenchay campus are...
West manufacturers have beaten the downturn by reporting a significant increase in orders and employment during the first three months of this year. And the positive trend looks set to continue with more manufacturers predicting a rise in output, higher orders and – vitally for the area’s economy – additional jobs. The upbeat picture...
