Bath’s small and medium-sized firms should use the next two years to get ‘Brexit-ready’, according to the area’s business support service GetSet for Growth. The organisation, which has just marked its one-year anniversary, said the EU referendum result had already triggered an increase in the number of businesses seeking support for plans to capitalise...
The Festival of Female Entrepreneurs returns to the West of England next Friday for its fifth year, bringing together some of the UK’s most influential female entrepreneurs, business leaders and brightest start-ups to provide detailed insight for starting and scaling a business. The jam-packed programme at the At-Bristol science centre includes: Julie Deane, who...
Hundreds of business people from across Bath and the West of England are today taking part in brilliant networking opportunities, inspirational workshops and hearing engaging speakers at the city’s largest business show. Bath Business Show, taking place at The Guildhall between 10am and 3pm, sold out for exhibitors long ago and organisers are expecting...
Bath’s business community must make sure its voice is heard loud and clear as the city prepares for the huge impact of Brexit and regional devolution, according to MP Ben Howlett. He told a roundtable discussion staged by Bath Business News and hosted by Barclays that only by pulling together could businesses ensure the...
The Archway Project, a major new learning centre and a World Heritage exhibition for the Roman Baths, is to go ahead after receiving a £3.4m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The project will increase the space dedicated to education at the Roman Baths by 400%. It will open up areas of Roman remains...
Bath-based international media group Future could sell its recently acquired Sci-Fi Now title to allow its £14.2m acquisition of rival Imagine Publishing to clear a monopolies hurdle. Last week the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) approved the takeover of Imagine’s 19 titles with the exception of Sci-Fi Now. Future has agreed with the CMA to...
The president of the CBI has urged West business leaders to press for a ‘soft’ Brexit with full access to the European Single Market and to also counter the view that immigration is bad for the UK. Paul Drechsler CBE told the South West CBI annual dinner that he was “fed up” with business...
Members of Bath’s business community were among around 80 people from across the South West who took part in the UK’s largest sleep-out. They bedded down in Bristol’s Millennium Square on Friday night to raise money for youth services run by Action for Children. Among businesses involved in Byte Night were Bath-based media group...
Shares in Bath-based international media group Future shot up by nearly 10% on Friday after it said it was reaping the benefits of its major restructuring of recent years. In a pre-close trading update released to the London Stock Exchange, the group said overall trading for the year to September 30 had been positive...
Brilliant networking opportunities will be on offer at Bath Business Show next Friday – the largest business event of its kind in the area. The show has now sold out for exhibitors and organisers expect to attract even than the 450 delegates who attended last year. Taking place at The Guildhall between 10am and...
