Small businesses in Bath and North East Somerset can access a free business support service to help them grow and reach their full potential. The BANES Business Support Service is designed to help firms through the Covid-19 crisis and beyond by providing the support they need to adapt, recover and adjust to a changing...
The region’s largest business group has urged the Prime Minister to help create a more sustainable future for business at this weekend’s G7 summit in Cornwall. The British Chambers of Commerce South West (BCCSW) – which includes Bath Chamber of Commerce parent group Business West – has written to Boris Johnson ahead of the global...
New ways of working ushered in by the pandemic are continuing to create opportunities for Bath advanced analytics firm Actual Experience, it said as it unveiled a narrowing of half-year pre-tax losses. The firm’s pioneering advanced analytics systems enable companies to improve operational efficiency as more staff work from home. In comments accompanying its...
A Bath hotel is offering free use of its meeting rooms to small businesses, charities and community groups as they look ahead to life after Covid-related restrictions. The Apex hotel on James Street West, along with nine others in the Apex group, this week launched its ‘Help in Hand’ initiative offering complimentary use of...
Scientists at the University of Bath are developing the world’s first handheld Covid-19 test device capable of offering results within 10 minutes. Worked on by the university’s Centre for Biosensers, Bioelectronics and Biodevices (C3Bio) in partnership with researchers at Bath’s Royal United Hospital (RUH), the LoCKamp (lab on chip amplification) device is roughly the...
A business support programme showing how small and medium-sized firms can benefit from sustainable innovation has been launched by world-leading business incubator SETsquared and the University of Bath. The three-year programme, which has been funded by the European Regional Development and available for firms based in the West of England, is aimed at firms...
Britain’s largest organic dairy brand Yeo Valley is benefitting from an ultra-fast, ultra-reliable full-fibre broadband service across its multiple rural sites thanks to Bath-based broadband provider Truespeed. Family-owned Yeo Valley, best known for its range of organic yogurts, previously relied on no slow, unreliable copper (ADSL) phone lines for its broadband needs. Now, after...
The opportunities for business growth and expansion through trade are huge. If you're thinking about trading with the EU and other markets, or want to continue trading, there are rules you need to follow for importing and exporting. It can be overwhelming, but the West of England Combined Authority’s Growth Hub is here to...
FlourishZone, the Bath firm aiming to revolutionise the global workplace wellbeing and coaching industry with the use of artificial intelligence (AI), has won a place on the prestigious InvestHorizon European tech accelerator. The move will support growth for the firm’s award-winning ‘deep tech’ wellbeing-at-work solution. Funded by the European Commission in association with EUREKA, InvestHorizon is...
Businesses based at SETsquared, the acclaimed incubator backed by the University of Bath, raised record levels of investment last year despite the coronavirus pandemic’s huge impact on financial markets. Funding from private and public sources totalled £616m, up 40% on 2019. Private investment accounted for 90% of the total raised, with the remainder from...
