Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week David Newton, chief executive of Bath-based property developer Kersfield, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? The 1949 film The Third Man, often cited as the best British...
The future of Bath’s architecture, art and housing – and how they shape its economy – will come under the spotlight at the first major conference of its kind to be held in the city. Speakers will include internationally acclaimed architects, designers and heritage experts along with award-winning Bath-based film director Ken Loach, who...
Small and medium-sized enterprises from across the South West are being invited to the preview in Bath of a unique programme aimed at supporting and investing in the business leaders of the future. Productivity through People is a collaboration between four world-class organisations with the University of Bath School of Management, which has co-designed...
Chippenham-headquartered logistics group Wincanton has appointed former John Lewis and Co-operative Group marketing director Gill Barr as an independent non-executive director. Ms Barr, whose new role becomes effective from today, will also sit on the company’s audit, nomination and remuneration committees. She is also a non-executive director of PayPoint and a trustee director of...
Bath businesses have just a few weeks left to comment on a new economic blueprint for the West of England which aims to make it a “beacon of growth and innovation”. The draft strategy was launched in July by West of England Mayor Tim Bowles and interim chair of the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP)...
The search is on to find Britain’s female start-up of the Year – with the winner following in the footsteps of two West of England-based businesswomen. The successful entrant will be crowned in Bristol next month following a live pitching session on stage at the annual Festival of Female Entrepreneurs, which returns to the...
Vysiion, the Chippenham-based communications infrastructure and outsourced IT service provider, is delivering an IT managed service for the South West Heritage Trust, which runs archives, museums and other historic services across Somerset and Devon. The archives hold more than seven million original documents relating to the history of Somerset and Devon with open access...
National property services firm CBRE has formed a new team to lead on development projects across the South West and South Wales. The team, based in its Bristol office, will be led by Marcus Plaw, who joins as planning director, and Philip Marsden, who becomes associate director. Marcus joins from Lambert Smith Hampton’s Bristol...
Hotel Indigo Bath, the boutique hotel due to open next year, has become an official business partner of Bath Racecourse in a deal that runs to December 2018. The partnership includes a named race on next year’s Ladies Day in 2018 and a ‘best dressed’ contest at the meeting where the winner will be...
Bath-headquartered employment agency Juice Recruitment has launched an office in Swindon as it continues its expansion across the region. Juice, which already has bases in Bristol, Cheltenham and Trowbridge as well as Bath, said it will use the new Swindon office to offer its services to businesses and candidates across the Wiltshire, Berkshire...
