Strong trading during the first three months of this year helped Bath-based glasses designer and manufacturer Inspecs Group maintain its post-pandemic growth. The rapidly expanding firm, which is focussing on becoming a global brand, reported a 12% increase in first-quarter revenues to $75.1m in a trading update to shareholders. This performance was achieved through...
Two pioneering Bath firms that collaborated on a ground-breaking medical research project are celebrating winning prestigious Queen’s Awards for Enterprise. CiteAb and Storm Consultancy EU were this week both awarded the coveted accolades in the Innovation category for jointly creating a platform that enables effective treatments for medical conditions to be developed quicker and...
Bath landscape architecture practice Grant Associates has revealed it is to create a special ‘Queen’s Garden’ at the Tower of London as part of its Superbloom display to celebrate Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee. Superbloom, which has been masterminded by the firm, will transform the Tower’s moat into a vibrant sea of more than 20m flowers...
More than 400 jobs are to be created by fast-growing eCommerce fulfilment company Huboo under its latest plan to open a major new warehouse. The Bath-founded firm, which increased its revenue by 124% in the year to January, is to occupy a new 106,000 sq ft building, close to junction 17 of the M4...
Business leaders, academics and students will come together next week at a special event staged by the University of Bath to showcase its enterprise strategy and boost collaboration with the corporate world. The first Enterprise Day on Wednesday, 27 April, will include panel discussions on how business can create green and resilient futures, how...
A scheme set up to donate unwanted and refurbished laptops to schools, charities and individuals who do not have access to technology has been awarded £135,000 to help take it to the next stage of development. The money from The National Lottery Community Fund will be used by Wiltshire Digital Drive to recruit a...
Second Mountain Comms, the Bath-based specialist PR consultancy that works with purpose-driven companies and charities, is in the running for second major award. Having been named last month as a finalist in the UK public relations industry’s most prestigious award scheme, Second Mountain Comms has now been shortlisted for a national social enterprise award. ...
The new owners of Bath’s only craft brewery, the award-winning Electric Bear Brewing Company, have pledged to invest in the business to grow it further. David Horner, managing director of Bath-based asset management firm Chelverton, his wife Mary and their family have lived and worked in Bath for more than 20 years. David has...
Bath has been chosen by national tourism agency VisitEngland as a key city to help the UK’s tourism industry recover from the effects of the pandemic. VisitWest, the regional destination management organisation that runs VisitBath, is to receive funding to promote the city this spring and summer as part of its flagship ‘Escape the...
A digital agency has launched in Bath entirely focused on working with small and medium-sized businesses to help them compete against industry leaders. Called Son of Jesse, it is the brainchild of Bath-based digital marketing and web expert Tom Beavan. Tom saw a gap in the market to work with start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs...
