Bath-based landscape architecture firm Grant Associates, which last week unveiled its design for this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, has been appointed to a major regeneration scheme also in West London. The long-anticipated waterfront Brentford Project aims to revitalise the suburb’s centre and establish a new retail, leisure and culinary scene, building on its rich...
A University of Bath research group that has helped alter attitudes towards the global tobacco industry and drive changes in government policies has been recognised for its work by the director-general of the World Health Organization. The Tobacco Control Research Group (TCRG) has exposed the industry’s attempts to weaken, block and delay tobacco control...
Britain’s largest organic dairy brand Yeo Valley is benefitting from an ultra-fast, ultra-reliable full-fibre broadband service across its multiple rural sites thanks to Bath-based broadband provider Truespeed. Family-owned Yeo Valley, best known for its range of organic yogurts, previously relied on no slow, unreliable copper (ADSL) phone lines for its broadband needs. Now, after...
The opportunities for business growth and expansion through trade are huge. If you're thinking about trading with the EU and other markets, or want to continue trading, there are rules you need to follow for importing and exporting. It can be overwhelming, but the West of England Combined Authority’s Growth Hub is here to...
The chief executive of Future, the fast-growing Bath specialist media group, has praised the agility of its staff after it defied the publishing sector’s gloom to post an 110% increase in half-year pre-tax profits. The highly diversified and acquisitive group, whose titles span TechRadar, PC Gamer and Country Life, achieved the £56.9m profits on sales up 89%...
Businesses based at SETsquared, the acclaimed incubator backed by the University of Bath, raised record levels of investment last year despite the coronavirus pandemic’s huge impact on financial markets. Funding from private and public sources totalled £616m, up 40% on 2019. Private investment accounted for 90% of the total raised, with the remainder from...
A businesswoman whose clinic specialises in helping people achieve and maintain gut health has published a book packed with advice on doing just that. Let That Sh*t Go! draws on Katherine Brooke-MacKenzie’s 16 years’ experience in helping people at the business end of gut health, through her colonic irrigation practice. She wants to, in her...
Bath tourist chiefs are to receive funding from national tourism agency VisitEngland to help promote the city as an ideal place for staycations this spring and summer. With traditional foreign holidays likely to shunned by many people this year to due Covid restrictions, VisitEngland is heavily marketing a range of UK destinations under the...
Retail brands based in and around Bath can get help to trade in the US with store giants such as Walmart under a new programme staged by the Department for International Trade (DIT). Called The Retail Lab, it will equip up to 18 companies, via a series of educational modules, with the knowledge required...
Three creative professionals from the Bath area have raised £1,500 in just over a week as they prepare for their first marathons to bring in essential funds for a mental health charity. Nathan Baranowski, Jo Wren and Ben Veal, who will be running the virtual London Marathon on October 3 to fundraise for the...
