Bath’s burgeoning business links with China are to be mapped for the first time in a major research project. The Bristol and Bath Chinese Ecosystem Analysis, which will be published next spring, will track all business, investment and academic connections between the area region and China, offering a definitive guide for years to come. ...
The introduction of two Covid Safety Officers to Bath’s streets this week has been welcomed by the organisation that brings together hundreds of city centre businesses. The uniformed offices are working with businesses to ensure they comply with current coronavirus regulations as well as encouraging and advising on social distancing by the public. The...
Businesses forced to close or significantly impacted by the latest coronavirus restrictions can now apply for government support grants from Bath & North East Somerset Council. The government’s Local Restrictions Support Grant (Closed) Addendum (LRSG(C)A) supports businesses that had been open as usual, providing services in person to customers from their business premises, but...
Four historic pubs near Bath are in line to change hands in a deal between fast-growing craft brewery and pub chain Butcombe and Wiltshire-based rival Wadworth. The groups have exchanged contracts for Butcombe, based near Bristol, to acquire a group of 21 pubs, extending its portfolio across the South of England and into the West...
Bath firms trading in Europe have been told that it is ‘almost too late’ if they have not planned for a worst case scenario following the end of the Brexit transition on January 1. The 50-day countdown to that date was on Wednesday and Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, fears many firms...
The Covid pandemic has reduced levels of economic activity across the UK this year. Households and businesses have generally been spending and investing less than they were before the pandemic struck. This fall in spending and investment risks significant job losses as many businesses face much lower demand for their goods and services. Although...
Just as we were entering the second national lockdown, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a five-month extension to the current Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and increased the level of the next self-employed income support grant, writes Pearson May partner Matthew Rutter. The Chancellor told the House of Commons that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) will...
National hotel group Axcel Hospitality has snapped up its second hotel in Bath as the city’s tourism sector continues to respond to the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The group has acquired the four-star Lansdown Grove Hotel, pictured, following the collapse of its owner Specialist Leisure Group into administration earlier this year. The 18th-century...
Destination marketing organisation Visit Bath has vowed to try to stage some of its planned pre-Christmas programme once the city emerges from the second national lockdown in early December. The rising tide of Covid-19 cases across the country – including in Bath, where it has now become higher than the national average for the...
Developers behind the UK’s first ‘urban later living community’ planned for Bath are future proofing the scheme in the light of the coronavirus crisis. Guild Living said changes to the development – which it wants to build on the former Homebase site off Pines Way – will help combat the spread of infectious diseases,...
