Business Showcase South West – the region’s largest event of its kind – is taking place today at Bristol’s Ashton Gate Stadium with the city’s Bloodhound Supersonic Car one of the star attractions. The free-to-visit event will also hear from the Bloodhound’s driver Wing Commander Andy Green OBE as one of the keynote speakers...
Bath’s SouthGate shopping centre has joined forces with other retail schemes across the West of England to attract more stores to the region. The centres have combined to produce an eye-catching map, pictured below, that showcases the strength of the region’s retail sector and its economic potential for investors. Also taking part in the initiative...
The successful Business Showcase South West returns next week to again celebrate the best of the region’s innovation, creativity and enterprise. The event, the largest of its kind in the South West, takes place at the newly redeveloped Ashton Gate Stadium in Bristol, meaning it will be even bigger. Delegates from Bath and Somerset are...
Commercial property adviser Bilfinger GVA has made four promotions in its South West office as it looks to strengthen its client-facing teams during a period of sustained growth. Tim Scruton, who heads the regional building team, becomes senior director while James Craven, a specialist in PRS (private rented sector) is promoted to director within...
Stephen Chang has joined facilities and property management company Almeda as financial controller. Stephen, pictured, arrives at the Keynsham-based family business from IT managed service provider Adapt, where he worked in a senior management accountant role. While at Adapt he helped establish the finance function and grow the business from £50m to £60m turnover....
Bath-based housing and support organisation Curo has today been named among the finalists of the region’s most prestigious business awards. Curo, along with Corsham-based pharmaceutical manufacturing company Bath ASU, line up against some of the South West’s top firms in the accountants PwC’s annual West of England Business of the Year Awards. The coveted...
Work has started on a major scheme to convert a vacant 1970s city centre building into much-needed offices – with its marketing agents claiming it will be Bath’s best new business space. The Manvers Street building, owned by West Midlands Pension Fund, is being extensively refurbished and re-modeled to provide 45,136 sq ft of...
The successful Business Showcase South West returns next week to again celebrate the best of the region’s innovation, creativity and enterprise. The event, the largest of its kind in the South West, this year takes place at the newly redeveloped Ashton Gate Stadium in Bristol, meaning it will be even bigger. Delegates from Bath and...
Bath’s much-needed innovation and digital campus is to come a step closer as Bath & North East Somerset Council prepares to sign a partnership agreement with design, engineering and risk management consultancy BMT and regeneration specialists TCN. The council said the agreement would help it secure an anchor tenant for the city’s new central...
The £35m Gainsborough Bath Spa has been included in a prestigious list of the world’s top new hotels. The 99-room hotel, which officially opened on Beau Street last September, features in the Condé Nast Traveller 2016 Hot List: The Best New Hotels in the World. The listing features the editors’ and contributing reporters’ handpicked...
