More than half the businesses in the South West fear they will not be able to recruit enough high-skilled workers for their future success, according to an alarming new report. The annual CBI/Pearson Education and Skills Survey – which gauged the views of 101 firms across the region – found that 68% say they...
Cardok UK, the Bath-based firm aiming to revolutionise parking, has agreed a distributor deal with Harrington Generators International (HGI) to provide home standby generators for its underground home car parking systems HGI – a leading supplier of generators to the rail, defence, oil, gas and water industries – will supply 8kw and 14kw standby...
Estate agency and property group Andrews has appointed Tim Bishop as its new business systems manager – the third senior IT role to be created at the firm in the past year. Tim, pictured, joins Keynsham head-quartered Andrews from the Financial Supervisory Authority of Iceland where he was software engineer based in Reykjavik for three-and-a-half years. His...
Facilities management business Almeda has appointed Brady George as managing director, taking over from his father Gary, who set up the business in 2007. Brady, aged 29, joined the Keynsham-based firm six years ago and worked in every department of the business before taking on his previous role as operations director. The family-owned business,...
Bath desperately needs more affordable housing to ensure its future economic wellbeing, the city’s recently-elected Bath MP Ben Howlett told local property professionals. Key to this was overhauling the “archaic planning system” to free-up brownfield sites for housing development, Mr Howlett said. Addressing the second in a series of property and construction networking events...
The West of England’s ambitions to attract more inward investment and boost its level of exports were highlighted this week with the visit of trade and investment minister Lord Francis Maude. Lord Maude met a cross section of small and medium-sized firms and recent investors in the area along with representatives from engineering giant...
Bath architecture firm Aaron Evans has won a regional ‘building excellence’ award for a pair of cottages in Newton St Loe – the first family homes to be built in the village since 1949. The design topped the Best Small New Housing Development category in the Local Authority Building Control (LABC) West of England...
Keynsham-based specialist building contractor Dribuild – the premium sponsor of Bath Racecourse’s winning post – has raised more than £17,000 for the Children’s Hospice South West from the course’s Summer Afternoon Raceday meeting. The meeting on Wednesday – specially organised to support the hospice, the company’s charity of the year – may now become...
Chippenham’s Grade II-listed Neeld Hall is being transformed into a modern community and arts centre in a refurbishment project led by Swindon construction firm Beard. The firm is working with Chippenham Town Council and Bristol-based Quattro Design Architects on the design-and-build scheme on the hall, which was built in 1850 as an extension to...
Chippenham residents and visitors to the town are being urged to support its privately owned shops as part of national Independent Retailer Month. Nearly half the retail units in the town are independently owned – reflecting a growing trend across the South West in particular for smaller, locally owned stores to set up and...
