More than 200 advanced engineering firms and digitally-innovative small and medium-sized enterprises are to gain access to expert support and advice through two new ‘business acceleration hubs’ set up by the University of Bath. The university has been awarded £1.5m from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to deliver start-up, scale-up, open innovation...
A 55% rise in average annual profits over the past three years has put Longleat Enterprises, the Warminster leisure firm that operates the famous safari park and Cheddar Gorge and Caves, among the UK’s fast-growth firms for the first time. The firm, which employs just over 700 people across its sites, appears this weekend...
Bishop Fleming, the regional accountancy firm with a large office in Bath, was today named as the official sponsor of the Institute of Directors (IoD) South West Director of the Year Awards 2018. Bishop Fleming, which has seven offices across the South West and West Midlands, has teamed up with the IoD to...
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...
Business West, the region’s largest business body and the organisation that runs the Bath Chamber of Commerce, is collaborating with two other powerful chambers to highlight the impact of uncertainty over Brexit a year before it takes effect. The Three Chamber Alliance – which includes the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) and...
Local media in Bath quite properly concentrate on Bath itself, the global tourist brand and the economic engine for the area. But the district is called Bath & North East Somerset (B&NES) for a good reason and the business community is very conscious of what the whole patch can do if we use all...
Acquisitive Bath media group Future has hit the takeover trail for the second time in two weeks, snapping up US-based information and events business Newbay Media, the publisher behind Music Week magazine. Future, which recently bought five titles from rival publisher Haymarket, including the world’s biggest football magazine FourFourTwo, is paying $12.25m (£8.62m) in...
Last year’s Bath Christmas Market boosted the city’s economy by more than £40m – the most in its 17-year history, organisers revealed today as they announced the dates for this year. According to independent research carried out for Visit Bath, the city’s destination marketing body responsible for staging the market, its 200-plus stalls –...
Confidence among small business owners in the South West has bounced back thanks to lower inflation, progress on Brexit talks and the Chancellor’s positive Spring Statement, according to a survey published this week. The report by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) – Britain’s biggest business representation group – also reveals a two-year high...
Bath-based specialist software developer The Filter, which was co-founded by musician and entrepreneur Peter Gabriel, is predicting its next phase of innovation after appointing a new CEO. The firm, which provides leading-edge machine learning software to the media and retail sectors, said the appointment of Neil Morris was a statement of intent as it...
