Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word. This week Grace Farrimond, founder of Young Blooms, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? The Mauritanian with Jodie Foster and Benedict Cumberbatch. It’s not for the faint-hearted but it’s extremely powerful....
The Chancellor must step up and provide an urgent package of measures to support Bath businesses as they suffer the effects of another Covid-hit Christmas, according to West of England Metro Mayor Dan Norris. He has called for a package of support until the end of January to get businesses across the region...
Bath-based broadband provider Truespeed is expanding its full fibre network to further into Somerset as it continues to target under-served towns, smaller cities and rural communities. It said more than 600 customers across Glastonbury, Street and Shepton Mallet had already signed up – many ready to receive the ultrafast service before Christmas. In...
A webinar to help Bath businesses with the new Covid rules, including checking the Covid-19 status of customers, is to be staged next week. Hosted by Bath & North East Somerset Council (B&NES) with Bath Business Improvement District (BID), it is primarily aimed at operators of nightclubs and other venues which are now...
Independent PR firm Carnsight Communications has completed the five charity challenges it set itself at the start of this year to mark its fifth anniversary. The Marshfield-based agency, which works with small and creative businesses, announced the move in January and completed all five between March and this month. The charities supported were...
Bath Preservation Trust, the organisation that operates four visitor attractions in the city, including No.1 Royal Crescent, has created an online guide to low carbon living for residents of older homes. From using old blankets and duvets to improve loft and underfloor insulation, to harvesting rainwater for outside cleaning jobs, regularly bleeding radiators...
A BSc Management student at the University of Bath has become the 1,000th to receive business innovation skills training in a pioneering scheme run by SETsquared, the world-leading tech incubator. The Intrapreneurial Knowledge Exchange Enterprise Pathway (IKEEP) was set up nearly a year ago by SETsquared, which is backed by a group of six...
The sale price of one of the top country house hotels in the Bath area has been reduced by more than £3m - with property agents now marketing the closed-down venue for £6m. Grade I listed, four-star Ston Easton Park near Shepton Mallet, which has 20 individually styled bedroom suites and seven reception...
Bath-based specialist media group Future has launched a strategy to build a more sustainable future for its “communities and planet”, taking in issues ranging from mentoring disadvantaged young people widening the diversity of its workforce to creating a safe internet and aiming for net zero greenhouse gas emissions. The firm, whose content reaches...
Bath-based glasses designer and manufacturer Inspecs Group has made its third acquisition in 18 months, snapping up a German spectacle frame distributor for €1.76m (£1.51m). Inspecs said buying BoDe Design Vertriebs, which also distributes Inspecs products in Holland, Austria and Switzerland, further reinforced its strategy of developing strategic distribution of its products to...
