Grant Associates, the Bath landscape architecture practice best known for its eye-catching large-scale projects across the globe, has won a gold medal for its first garden Chelsea Flower Show. The firm’s Chinese-inspired Guangzhou Garden, pictured, shows how cities of the future must be considered as landscape cities. Designed by the practice’s director Peter Chmiel and senior...
Two University of Bath academics have been named among the UK’s most promising science and research leaders. Dr Vivek Soundararajan from the university’s School of Management and Dr Daniel Loughran from the Department of Mathematical Sciences have also secured Future Leader Fellowships from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Some 97 researchers in total are receiving funding of £113m...
A scheme originally set up by regional group Business West to help food firms from across the South West sell abroad is competing for a prestigious international award. The online platform’s aim was initially to close the exporting gap with other UK regions. Now rebranded as The Great British Food Programme, it has evolved...
Staff from specialist inhaler firm Vectura have been barred from attending a pharmaceutical industry conference days after its controversial £1.1bn acquisition by tobacco group Philip Morris International (PMI). In an apparent rebuff by academics over the deal, Vectura was stripped of its sponsorship of a major lung health conference due to take place this...
Bath’s Christmas Market is to be drastically reduced this year after being hit by what organisers Bath & North East Somerset Council described as a ‘double whammy’ of Brexit and Covid. The council said these two factors had led to a national shortage of logistics and security staff, as well as specialist equipment, making...
The CBI has appointed a new South West team, including a new regional director and deputy regional director, to lead its activities in the region and support member businesses as they look to rebuild from the impact of Covid-19. Ben Rhodes steps up from the deputy director role he has held since 2017 to...
Bath-headquartered law firm Royds Withy King’s corporate team has advised the company behind Savvy Investor, the thought-leadership platform for institutional investors, on its acquisition by global business information provider Pageant Media. Savvy Investor pulls together more than 10,000 white papers and other third-party content from across the investment management industry for more than 55,000...
Bath-based glasses designer and manufacturer Inspecs achieved a 562% increase in revenue in the first half of this year after reaping the rewards of the two acquisitions it made in 2020 – and is now on the lookout for more. The firm said it was working with its advisors to identify potential targets as...
Regional business support organisation Business West has helped innovative hand-cranked washing machines developed by a former University of Bath student reach refugee camps in Iraq. The Washing Machine Project was founded in 2018 by Nav Sawhney after he volunteered in India and saw his neighbour struggling to handwash her clothes. Business West, the organisation...
Bath’s success in achieving a second UNESCO World Heritage listing has been celebrated at an event attended by civic and tourism industry leaders. The city, along with 10 other historic spa towns, secured the much-coveted UNESCO World Heritage status in July as part of the ‘Great Spa Towns of Europe’ nomination. The achievement makes...
