Hundreds of trees and thousands of daffodil bulbs are putting a major new business park in the vanguard of environmental standards. The 35-acre, £50m Hawke Ridge Business Park near Westbury could support over 1,000 jobs when its 500,000 sq ft of business space is completed. In the meantime Bath-based developer HPH has appointed consultancy...
Bath is putting fair trade in the spotlight with a series of events over the next fortnight, including a visit by a Nicaraguan Fairtrade coffee farmer. The University of Bath is partnering with Bath & North East Somerset Council (B&NES) and Bath Spa University to host a Fairtrade Producer event next Wednesday. Nicaraguan Fairtrade...
Estate agency and property group Andrews has launched a major charitable scheme aimed at giving young care-leavers a roof over their heads and support in finding work or training. The initiative for 16 to 25 year olds coincides with the start of the Keynsham-based group’s 70th anniversary celebrations and fits in its founding principles. Cecil...
West of England accountancy firm Bishop Fleming, which has an office in Bath, has successfully reduced its annual paper consumption by more than a third, saving the equivalent of 87 trees. Since introducing an environmental management system five years ago to measure three main key performance indicators – electricity and gas usage, mileage, and...
Figures released today show that South West exporters out performed the national picture last year, increasing the volume of overseas sales by 10.6% compared to a national decrease of 2.7%. The data released by HM Revenue and Customs found that the total value of South West exports in 2015 was £15.2bn, an increase of...
Radstock-based print and post services firm CFH Docmail has been named as the UK’s fastest-growing hybrid mail company in the influential Print Week ‘Top 500’ league table, which acts as a bellwether report on the UK print industry. The firm achieved year-on-year sales growth of 37.25% with net profit rising by 163% and staff...
One of the largest business exhibitions in the region – The Bath Business Expo 2016 – is preparing to open its doors next week. The Expo on Thursday March 17 is supported by Bath & North East Somerset Council (B&NES) and will act as a local and regional meeting hub for business advice, seminars,...
More than 70 people heard how small can be beautiful at a special event organised by Bath-based international development charity Send a Cow. Guests – made up of local charity supporters and members of Bath’s business community – were invited to learn more about the power of smallholding farming in Africa and the benefits...
Green energy firm Good Energy has pledged to double its workforce to more than 600 people over the next five years as it maintains its rapid growth. The Chippenham-based firm, which supplies 100% renewable electricity to homes and businesses across the UK, has nearly doubled in size over the past two years and now...
The search has started to find the South West’s happiest workplace – and staff working for Bath’s forward-looking businesses are being encouraged to take part. The contest, launched last year by workplace and interior design consultancy Wylde Interior Architecture, aims to show what separates a happy workplace from the humdrum, boring and run of...
