Bath firms are being urged to prepare now for the end of the Brexit transition period on January 1 next year, despite many questions of how it will work in practice remaining unanswered. The government has launched a campaign for businesses with the strapline ‘Time is running out’ as talks with the EU over...
Business West, the group that runs Bath Chamber of Commerce, has welcomed the latest government job and self-employment support measures – but warned that many firms, including those in the city’s vital hospitality sector, continue to miss out. The new support package was announced yesterday by Chancellor Rishi Sunak as businesses in many areas...
Firms will ‘despair’ over Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s comments today that they should prepare for a no-deal Brexit, the region’s biggest business organisation said. Describing the move as “another period of political theatre”, Business West managing director Phil Smith said firms across the West of England were already under unprecedented pressure from the impact...
Actual Experience, the Bath-based advanced analytics firm, has secured a three-year extension to its agreement with the procurement arm of multinational professional services company Accenture after launching a service linked to the huge increase in staff working from home. Analytics as a service company Actual Experience says its new Human Experience Management (HXM) offering...
More than £100m is to be spent on ambitious plans that use the West of England’s creativity and diversity to protect and secure jobs while building back greener and creating opportunities for all residents. The plan has been drawn up by the region’s Recovery Taskforce, which brings together businesses, universities and the West of...
New support for firms forced to close by law because of coronavirus restrictions by Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been welcomed by Business West, the organisation behind Bath Chamber of Commerce. The scheme, under which the government will pay two-thirds of the wages of staff working for these firms, was announced on Friday. It begins...
More than 150 jobs are to be created by Future, the Bath-based media group, as it continues to sidestep the economic impact of Covid-19. The rapidly expanding group, which last week hit the takeover trail again in the US and has also launched a number of new titles, said the majority of the new...
Bath’s firms are being invited to take part in a public project to fill the city’s streets with giant bunting made from their artwork and designs in the run-up to Christmas. The competition has been launched by the city’s Business Improvement District (BID) and printing firm Minuteman Press Bath, who see it as a...
Strong exports to the US, Canada, and Australia have lifted revenues at tech innovator Scanning Pens, which produces pens that help dyslexic children and adults to read. The firm, based in Westbury, Wiltshire, was co-founded in 2003 by Jack Churchill and Toby Sutton. Their skill and interest in edtech as well as Jack’s personal...
As the seventh month of working from home approaches and the season starts to change, Mogers Drewett HR consultant Lucy Cotterell offers some guidance and tips aimed at helping managers to ensure they can support their team’s health and wellbeing. With the Centre for Mental Health charity predicting that up to 10m people (almost...
