Business leaders from across the region were recognised at the Institute of Directors 2016 Director of the Year Awards. Simon Barbato, founder and CEO of Bath-based brand, digital and marketing agency was named South West Director of the Year. Other winners were: James Piper of Ecosurety in Bristol (Young Director), Brady George of Keynsham-based Almeda...
Civil engineering and waste management firm M J Church has strengthened its management team with a number of new appointments. Fiona Powell has joined the Marshfield-based company as business information systems and technology manager, Terry O’Callaghan as recruitment and training manager and Carol Heneghan as marketing and business development manager. Also recently appointed are...
Bosses running West of England firms are almost three times more likely to vote in favour of remaining in the EU than leave – with the gap between the two views widening over the past three months. The latest snap survey by Business West – the region’s largest business organisation – of its members...
Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the area’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Savita Custead, director of Bristol and Bath Festival of Nature – which starts this weekend – answers our 10 questions What was the LAST: Film you watched? Spotlight Book you read?...
Bath brand consultancy The House has helped property management firm Touchstone, also based in the city, to refresh its brand by reimagining its purpose. Working closely with Touchstone’s senior leadership, The House helped redefine the company’s brand purpose as ‘turning rental units into homes’. This has energised Touchstone’s business strategy and sparked a full...
The views of employers in Bath and across the West of England are being sought on recruitment experiences, skills gaps and more to influence the area’s future skills strategy. The West of England Local Enterprise Partnership’s (LEP) Annual Employer Skills Survey, is aligned to its vision to develop a local workforce with the skills...
Trade waste is being collected quicker and more efficiently from Bath city centre in a three-month trial aimed at growing the evening economy as well as escalating the war on gulls. Under the scheme, rubbish bags are being collected from outside businesses between 5.30pm and 6pm to ensure they are only on the street...
Good Energy, the Chippenham-based renewable energy company, has sold one of its undeveloped solar sites to Chinese PV panel manufacturer Trina Solar as it shifts its focus onto sites that are already generating power. The 4.65MW solar site at Wrotham, near Maidstone, Kent, earn Good Energy a profit of between £430,000 and £480,000 –...
Bath lawyer Andrew Banks is warning the city’s antiques dealers that they risk hefty fines because of widespread confusion over the rules controlling the trade in endangered species. Andrew, pictured, a partner in the Bath office of solicitors Stone King, said the decision to fine the auction house Christie’s £3,250 this week for trying...
Lightweight steel roofing company Metrotile UK has come to the rescue of a South Wales countryside park whose visitor centre suffered from leaks every time it rained. The previous porous roof tiles on the Parc Bryn Bach building in Blaenau Gwent had let water into the café area. But now the popular lakeside facility...
