Iconic British car marque Land Rover has become the official vehicle of Bath Rugby in a three-way partnership with West of England motor dealership group Dick Lovett. The agreement, which extends Land Rover’s long-running support of UK rugby, comes ahead of the opening in December of Dick Lovett’s new state-of-the-art Jaguar Land Rover dealership...
The search is on to find Britain’s female start-up of the Year – with the winner following in the footsteps of two West of England-based businesswomen. The successful entrant will be crowned in Bristol next month following a live pitching session on stage at the annual Festival of Female Entrepreneurs, which returns to the...
Actor and singer Jason Donovan is to be the headline act for The Prince’s Trust Red Dinner next month, which will raise thousands of pounds for disadvantaged young people across the South West. The platinum award-winning singer and former Neighbours star, pictured, will entertain guests at the black-tie event in Bristol on October 5....
International PR agency Bell Pottinger – or Bell Rottinger, as it is now being referred to – has had a pretty rough ride over the past few months, culminating last week in being booted out of industry trade body the PRCA for the next five years. But what happened? How does a global PR...
Tech start-ups and scale-ups seeking funding have just a week left to apply for the Silicon Gorge Investor Showcase taking place as part of Venturefest Bristol & Bath next month. Applications, which must be in by September 15, are open to early stage tech firms – those looking for investment of between £100,000 and...
The UK’s largest charity services business has been formed following the acquisition of Melksham specialist outsourcing firm Valldata by Chippenham-based Woods Group. Woods Group is best known for its strengths in raffles, lotteries, print production and payment processing for charities such as the RSPB, National Trust and Motability, while Valldata specialises in fulfilment, payment...
A company that spun out of the University of Bath is to appear in a league table of the UK’s fastest-growing private tech, media and telecoms firms for the second time in two years. Qualasept Pharmaxo, which has developed the UK’s single biggest aseptic clean room, has achieved annual sales growth of 77% over...
A raft of recent contract wins and a bumper order book means Chippenham-based specialist IT group SCISYS is on target to report solid half-year results later this month, according to its directors. In a trading update to the London Stock Exchange earlier this week, the SCISYS board said they remained confident that the group...
Vysiion, the Chippenham-based communications infrastructure and outsourced IT service provider, is delivering an IT managed service for the South West Heritage Trust, which runs archives, museums and other historic services across Somerset and Devon. The archives hold more than seven million original documents relating to the history of Somerset and Devon with open access...
Bath-based software house Mayden is inviting local charities to get involved in its two-day hack next month. Charities will have access to the combined expertise of Mayden’s software developers, marketing and admin teams, and coaches to help them move forward an idea or project of their choice. Mayden software developer and scrum master Rob...
