Five Bath area firms are today celebrating winning the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, the UK’s most prestigious business accolade. The five very different businesses – Rocketmakers, Wessex Water Services, Wolf and Wild, Bath Ales (through its owner St Austell’s Brewery) and Coombe Castle International – are among 230 companies from across the UK to...
The Festival of Female Entrepreneurs returns to the West of England for a seventh year in October with one of Britain’s most successful entrepreneurs already lined up as headline speaker. Emma Bridgewater, who has spent more than 30 years building up a successful pottery business, will share her experiences and give advice to businesswomen...
Bath’s pioneering sustainable technologies programme has attracted its second member company as it ramps up its role as the UK’s first business acceleration hub dedicated to the sector. Collecteco works with businesses and other organisations to donate reusable furniture, equipment and materials to good causes, including charities, schools, voluntary groups and other not for...
A tech-based project to improve humanitarian aid efforts in Africa has earned Bath‐based multi‐service marketing agency Edit recognition from IBM. Edit’s solution speeds up the mapping process so that teams can quickly provide humanitarian assistance and also address issues such as female genital mutilation, early marriage, and gender‐based violence that hold back some African...
A monthly meet-up has been launched in Bath by an award-winning personal development facilitator and life motivator to inspire and encourage the city’s businesswomen. Women Unmasked is the brainchild of Radstock-based Yvonne Bignall, who runs Yvonne B Ltd, a consultancy that supports women in business and helps them realise their potential. Yvonne, pictured, saw...
Around 50 Forward-thinking Bath businesses have signed up to the nationwide Refill tap water scheme that helps cut down on the use of single-use plastic bottles. The scheme, which grew out of a campaign in Bristol, aims to make refilling a water bottle as easy, convenient and cheap as possible by introducing refill...
Bath-based developer Kersfield has been granted planning permission to transform the main campus of a former school in Bristol into 44 luxury homes. The plans, approved by Bristol City Council, include sympathetically restoring the Grade II* listed Redland Court at the city’s former Redland High School. Kersfield will also remove the 1960s sports hall...
Novia Financial, the Bath-based wealth management firm, has set up its own charity foundation to primarily support projects that aim to improve and help the lives of people in the city and its surroundings. The Novia Foundation, which has been accepted on the Register of Charities, was created to mark 10 years since...
A company that supplies paper and canvas shopping bags to leading retailers has relocated to larger premises to give it space to continue its growth and install the first digital printer of its kind in the UK. The Paper Bag Company has upped sticks from its base in the Oakfield Business Centre on the...
Bath business experts have been reacting to Tuesday’s Spring Statement, with most pointing to what Chancellor Philip Hammond failed to deliver rather than what he said. The city’s largest accountancy practice Bishop Fleming was particularly hard-hitting in its comments, calling it a “missed opportunity to be bold, imaginative and transformative”, especially as the...
