Bath’s Business Improvement District (BID) has become a strategic corporate partner of The Bath Festival, supporting the city-wide celebration and helping develop the new flagship festival for Bath. Taking place between May 19 and 28, the new festival – which has the tag-line 'Jump In' – intends to appeal to a wider audience, build...
The clock is ticking for Bath directors to enter the region’s top award scheme recognising excellence and enterprise in the boardroom. The deadline for the Institute of Directors’ (IoD) South West Director of the Year Awards 2017 is March 31 and organisers are urging Bath’s top executives to get their skates on and submit...
Bath’s business scene is buzzing with bags of optimism and plentiful opportunities, according to stand holders and visitors at yesterday’s Bath Expo. The city’s largest event of its kind, the Bath Expo attracted hundreds of attendees to the Assembly Rooms, where they could chat to a wide range of businesses which had taken the...
Bath-based media group Future has further developed its e-commerce team with the appointment of Jason Kemp to its executive leadership team as e-commerce & trading director. Jason, pictured, will focus on Future’s merchandising strategy, improving the way it converts potential customers into paying customers and developing retail best practice. He will also work on promotions...
Bath creative agency Mr B & Friends has built on its work with acclaimed London craft brewery Fourpure by designing the packaging for two new seasonal brews. As one of the first UK craft brewers to can its beer for freshness, Fourpure leads the way in innovative brewing practices and can designs with shelf...
Small business support group Enterprise Nation is to head west again to stage its flagship female-focused event, the Festival of Female Entrepreneurs. The event, the largest of its kind in the UK, has been held in Bristol since it was launched six years ago. Taking place this year on October 20, it will attract...
Chancellor Philip Hammond has been accused of hitting entrepreneurs and freelancers in the pocket in the Spring Budget after he announced National Insurance increases for the self-employed. The Chancellor announced he is raising National Insurance (NI) bills for self-employed workers by 1% to 10% from April 2018 and to 11% by 2019. Hargreaves Lansdown,...
Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, described Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Spring Budget as “underwhelming” but warned there were some measures that will make firms nervous. These included the National Insurance increase for the self-employed – which it feared could dampen entrepreneurship – and the impact of business rate rises, despite help for some...
Business organisation the CBI’s director-general Carolyn Fairbairn described today’s Budget as a “breakthrough for skills”. She said: “There has never been a more important time for the UK to sit at the global top table of technical education for young people. “Firms will be looking for ongoing partnership with the government as they try...
Chancellor Philip Hammond announced new funding to help the UK compete in science and innovation in his spring Budget, including: £300m for research talent, including 1,000 PhD places for STEM subjects £270m for robots, driverless cars and biotech £16m for a 5G mobile technology hub £200m for fibre broadband
