Regional accountancy firm Milsted Langdon, which has an office in Bath, has helped secure the sale of an innovative battery business at the forefront of the electrification of the aerospace industry. Electroflight’s directors called in Milsted Langdon’s specialist restructuring and insolvency team to advise on the future of the Cheltenham-based business after seeking additional...
Plans to develop a world-class creative quarter in central Bath should be extended into a more ambitious masterplan for the whole city, including improving its transport, commercial viability and sustainability. The argument, put forward by Bath Preservation Trust – the charity set up in 1934 to safeguard the city’s unique historic setting – follows...
Communications agency founder Natalie Sherman has been named as one of the South West’s top entrepreneurs in a respected national awards scheme after being selected from more than 5,000 hopefuls. Natalie, pictured, who launched Corsham-based social-first consultancy Naturally Social seven years ago, is a finalist in the Great British Entrepreneur Awards. The specialist agency...
Bath firms are to get the opportunity to have their say the city’s future as a vibrant and innovative hub for business at a major event later this year. The Bath Business Conference, which is being staged by the Bath Business Improvement District (BID) on 20 September, is designed to bring businesses together to...
A luxury hotel in a highly sensitive landscape setting on Bath’s outskirts has secured planning consent for an expansion. The proposals for Homewood Hotel and Spa at Freshford, drawn up by Bath-based Aaron Evans Architects, include six new luxury guest suites each with their own private terraces and a small meeting and events space....
South West chartered accountancy firm Milsted Langdon has taken a major step towards its ambition of becoming a fully sustainable and innovative business by completing a refurbishment of one of its offices. The transformation of the firm’s Taunton base, its largest, includes a reshaping of the office space to create a more modern work...
Iconic Somerset-based fashion business Mulberry is looking to its factories in the county to help make it one of the world’s most sustainable luxury brands. The manufacturing sites at Chilcompton, south of Bath, and in Bridgwater – which between them produce more than half of all Mulberry’s output – have been carbon neutral since...
Recycling rates in Bath and North East Somerset are among the best in England according to new research, with the area claiming number three spot in a league table based on the amount of refuse householders throw out. The study is based on the recycling and composting rates of English local authority areas and...
The Bath-based landscape architect behind Singapore’s iconic Supertrees tourist attraction and the current Superbloom display at the Tower of London is calling for more city spaces to be turned over to nature to boost biodiversity, tourism and wellbeing. Andrew Grant RDI, founder of pioneering landscape architecture practice Grant Associates was lead designer on the...
Companies selling ethical and sustainable products could increase sales by using up-tempo and upbeat music in their marketing, new research from the University of Bath has revealed. Music plays a key role in advertising as it can produce a strong emotional response from the consumer – with music in a major key, or mode,...
