A strong order book has given civil engineering, plant, transport and waste group MJ Church a buoyant start to 2017 following a busy 2016. The Marshfield-based group, which also operates from two sites in Chippenham, has grown to a £50m turnover business employing around 450 people. It said, as a diverse group, it expected...
Curo, the Bath-based housing association and housebuilder, has appointed construction group Rydon to build its £10m community hub at its flagship Mulberry Park development. Construction work on the new primary school, children’s nursery and state-of-the–art community facilities on the outskirts of Bath will start this spring and the buildings are expected to open in...
Directors from Bath and across the West of England are being invited to enter one of the region’s top annual awards schemes that recognises excellence and enterprise in the boardroom. The prestigious Institute of Directors’ South West Director of the Year Awards 2017 will showcase outstanding leaders and entrepreneurs as well as focusing UK-wide attention on...
None of us exists in a vacuum. Throughout our daily lives we interact with other people – with varying levels of intensity. But always, we are working and living alongside people who influence us in a million different ways. Making the most of these interactions is how we can improve our success and even...
Professional services firm PwC has launched its annual West of England Business of the Year Awards – widely regarded as the region’s most prestigious. Now in their 29th year, the eagerly-contested awards attract the cream of the region’s firms with a winners’ roll-call reading like a who’s who of the West’s most-respected companies. The...
Bath entrepreneurs are being invited to attend the second meeting of The Royall Wealth Club, the innovative West-based community of forward-thinking individuals, on Monday. The club, which covers Bath and Bristol, was launched last October to bring together successful people from all walks of life to meet, share and develop their personal goals around wealth,...
Time is running out for Bath firms to enter the prestigious South West Fairtrade Business Awards. Applications for the hotly contested awards, which are free to enter, close on January 31. Now in their fifth year, the awards champion organisations across the region that put ethical responsibilities at the heart of their business and...
Bath firms should hope for the best but plan for the worst, according to the region’s largest business organisation following Prime Minister Theresa May’s speech on Tuesday outlining her plans for Brexit. Business West, which runs Bath Chamber of Commerce, said while the landmark speech gave some clarity to the government’s intentions over leaving...
Bath businesses with links to China – or those wishing to explore them – are being invited to welcome in the Year of the Rooster at a special Chinese New Year celebration banquet next month. The gala banquet is being stage by the Bristol and West of England China Bureau, which works to connect...
The Royall Wealth Club, the innovative West-based community of forward-thinking individuals, stages its second meeting later this month with a platform of inspirational speakers. The club, which covers Bath and Bristol, was launched last October with the intention of bringing together successful people from all walks of life to meet, share and develop their personal...
