Keynsham-based facilities management group Almeda has won a cleaning contract with Bath Spa University at its new Green Park House student accommodation development. The newly refurbished city centre building has 461 rooms, all of which Almeda’s soft services department will be keeping clean. It also includes a laundry room and common room. The building...
Bristol’s successful upmarket bangers-and-mash restaurant and bar The Clifton Sausage is to open a branch in Bath later this month. The firm is to take over the former Cow Shed restaurant in Bladud Buildings on The Paragon. The 80-cover restaurant in a Grade II listed Georgian building will re-open under the Clifton Sausage name on...
Bath-based conflict management expert Felix Spender has visited India as part of the country’s ambitious plan to develop ‘smart cities’ and help lift millions of people out of poverty. The former army officer, who launched his business North Light Solutions in 2011, met politicians, university representatives and business owners at the Innovation India conference...
The president of the CBI has urged West business leaders to press for a ‘soft’ Brexit with full access to the European Single Market and to also counter the view that immigration is bad for the UK. Paul Drechsler CBE told the South West CBI annual dinner that he was “fed up” with business...
Members of Bath’s business community were among around 80 people from across the South West who took part in the UK’s largest sleep-out. They bedded down in Bristol’s Millennium Square on Friday night to raise money for youth services run by Action for Children. Among businesses involved in Byte Night were Bath-based media group...
Bath-based property developer HPH has secured a first-of-its-kind funding package to help pursue its green initiatives. The firm, which owns a diverse portfolio of office, industrial and retail properties across the South West, arranged the loan through Lloyds Bank’s Commercial Real Estate Green Lending Initiative. Lloyds launched the £1bn scheme in March to incentivise...
Brilliant networking opportunities will be on offer at Bath Business Show next Friday – the largest business event of its kind in the area. The show has now sold out for exhibitors and organisers expect to attract even than the 450 delegates who attended last year. Taking place at The Guildhall between 10am and...
A new regional Prince’s Trust development committee has been set up by a group of leading business figures to help the organisation raise vital funds to support young people. The committee aims is to raise more than £1m during 2016-17 to go directly towards The Prince’s Trust in the region and help bring to...
International property consultancy JLL’s lead director for the South West & Wales, Jeremy Richards, is to step down from the role at the end of this year and will be replaced by director of project and development services Simon Peacock. Jeremy will take on the role of regional chairman from January after nearly 14...
National property consultancy Carter Jonas has welcomed a new recruit to its Bath office as part of its graduate training scheme. Georgia Georgieva, 22, pictured, has joined the office’s commercial team, where she will complete the two-year process covering all aspects of agency, valuation and professional consultancy work. Georgia, who speaks Bulgarian, English, German...
