Radstock-based Oval Estates has received two secured loans totaling £317,000 helped by ThinCats.com, the online marketplace that allows investors to make secured loans directly to UK businesses. Oval Estates, a family-run business which develops and builds about 50 to 60 residential homes a year and some commercial buildings, is using the funding to prepare...
Bath-based branding agency The House have gained recognition for its Mission Burrito rebrand at the advertising industry’s Cream Awards 2011, coming top of the corporate identity category, along with Wyatt International. Competition was tough, with several entries from global agencies such as McCann Erickson and Golley Slater. Judges commented that the standard of work...
After a struggle of nearly 25 years, the dream of a science park for Bristol and Bath finally became a reality when SPark opened for business three months ago. Here CEO Bonnie Dean gives ANNE GORRINGE a guided tour and talks about the challenges and plans for the £300m site. INNOVATION may be...
Innovative small firms across the region are being encouraged to show they’ve got what it takes to “export for growth” by entering a new competition run by UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) South West. The new Exporting for Growth competition aims to encourage more small businesses to take their products and services to overseas...
Bath Lib-Dem MP Don Foster said many of the issues he had pushed for were included in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement. “I was pleased to see that rail fares are to be capped at 6.2% -1% above inflation. This is down from 8.2%. This will make a real difference to commuters in Bath. “In...
Business organisations across Bath and the West were generally supportive of the Chancellor's help for small and medium-sized businesses, particularly measures to boost research and development and encourage investment. Gerry Jones, chairman of the Institute of Directors in the South West, said the Chancellor was “absolutely right” to stick with his Plan A fiscal...
Chancellor George Osborne has delivered his Autumn Statement. Here are the key points: BUSINESS Credit easing programme to underwrite up to £40bn in low-interest loans to small and medium-sized firms £1bn business finance partnership to help secure funding for medium-sized firms Regional Growth regeneration fund to get £1bn in extra funding £250m support package...
Chancellor George Osborne said he was determined to see Britain through the financial crisis as he outlined his plans to boost the stuttering economy in his annual Autumn Statement – with the latest gloomy forecasts suggesting the country is again teetering on the edge of recession. He was forced to admit that GDP has...
House prices have inched up by a better-than-predicted 0.4% this month, according to Nationwide building society, but they are expected to ease again over the next 12 months as activity remains subdued. The month-on-month rise is the third straight monthly increase. In a year-on-year basis, the increase was 1.6%, beating a forecast of 1.3%....
