Chippenham-based specialist IT firm SciSys has landed a £1.55m contract to supply the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) with its world-beating ‘cloud-hosted’ radio technology. The two-and-a-half year contract is the latest secured by the firm as it continues to bounce back from serious problems with a major fixed-price contract last year. The crisis pushed...
Bath’s much-needed innovation and digital campus is to come a step closer as Bath & North East Somerset Council prepares to sign a partnership agreement with design, engineering and risk management consultancy BMT and regeneration specialists TCN. The council said the agreement would help it secure an anchor tenant for the city’s new central...
Bath-based online sex toy retailer Lovehoney has become possibly the most unusual winner of a Queen’s Award for Enterprise. And in a twist on the traditional view that Brits are buttoned-up when it comes to bedroom antics – the firm collected its award for selling its sexual pleasure products overseas. Lovehoney ventured into exporting...
The £35m Gainsborough Bath Spa has been included in a prestigious list of the world’s top new hotels. The 99-room hotel, which officially opened on Beau Street last September, features in the Condé Nast Traveller 2016 Hot List: The Best New Hotels in the World. The listing features the editors’ and contributing reporters’ handpicked...
West firms and business organisations need to collaborate more and embrace innovation to help nurture the region’s talent pool, according to the regional president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Speaking to more than 500 delegates at the ICAEW annual dinner in Bristol last night, Rick Sturge said firms needed...
Unemployment has continued to fall in the South West, bucking the national trend and pointing to a brighter outlook for the region’s businesses. But Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, warned the national rise signalled a slowing economy and could impact on firms in the Bath area if the Government did not take...
The first batch of a special beer brewed by Bath Ales to mark Bristol Old Vic’s 250th birthday has been delivered to the historic theatre. The 1766 Anniversary Ale will be available throughout this year in bars at the venue – the longest continuously-running theatre in the UK – as it celebrates the milestone....
Virtual reality will have a major impact on nearly all aspects of our lives – from working and resting to playing and learning, according to a new survey commissioned to ensure the West of England stays at the leading edge of the VR revolution. While three quarters of the 2,000 people taking part in...
Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the area’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Jo Smyth, owner of PR and copywriting agency Word Worker, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Batman v Superman. Going to see action films is one...
Specialist exhibition design firm The Graphic Mill has created another prestigious, high-profile window display as it continues to grow this part of the business. The firm, based just outside Trowbridge, has transformed the retail space and window of Whole Foods Market’s flagship London store into an eye-catching branding space for food firm Rude Health...
