Business leaders in Bath are being encouraged to enter one of the region’s top award schemes for recognising excellence and enterprise in the boardroom. The Institute of Directors’ (IoD) South West Director of the Year Awards 2019 champion outstanding leaders and entrepreneurs and focus UK-wide attention on success in the region. Over recent years the prestigious...
A flurry of new business won by its space division in December gave specialist IT and software group SCISYS a better-than-expected end to 2018, it said in a trading update today. The Chippenham-headquartered group landed a series of contract wins with an aggregate value of £23m during the month. That bolstered its order...
Bath tech firm MoveGB, already the UK’s largest fitness marketplace, has been chosen as one of 30 high-growth UK businesses to take part in a prestigious programme aimed at accelerating their expansion. MoveGB operates a flexible fitness scheme that gives users one membership to thousands of activities and classes, gyms and studios, so...
Annual revenue at Bath digital pioneer Actual Experience has soared by 200% as it landed its first major contracts. The advanced analytics firm, which also has offices in London, New York and Seattle, signed the first full-scale deployments of its unique digital analytics-as-a-service products during the year to September 30. The firm was founded on...
Fibre-optic infrastructure firm TrueSpeed, which is delivering fibre broadband to rural homes and businesses around Bath, has become one of the first companies in the sector to gain a new gold standard for the quality of its network. The Independent Networks Cooperative Association (INCA) introduced its quality mark accreditation last November to reward best...
Cutting-edge agri-tech firms from the Bath area are being offered the chance to take part in a fully-funded programme to China with the potential to secure lucrative business links. Fifteen companies will be selected by Innovate UK, the government innovation agency, for the programme, which includes an eight-day visit to China from March 9-16. ...
Specialist IT group SCISYS has again stressed that moving its parent company from the UK to Ireland to allow it to bid for EU-funded work has paid off by winning a fifth contract in less than a month. The Chippenham-headquartered group SCISYS has been awarded a €1.32m (£1.16m) contract with AIRBUS Defence and Space...
Bath-headquartered law firm Royds Withy King has used its traditional new year gathering for the city’s business community to highlight eight challenges that could shape the future of the economy. Ranging from electric vehicles to Brexit, the topics were identified by the firm, which has two offices in Bath, to spark debate among the...
An innovative scheme encouraging and supporting Bath scale-up businesses has been praised by industry experts as a role model for other parts of the country. The ScaleUp Institute, a company which aims to make the UK the best place in the world to develop a thriving business, said the West of England Growth...
SCISYS Deutschland, the German arm of the Chippenham-based specialist IT group SCISYS, has landed its fourth space-related contract in as many weeks. The latest deal, with an anticipated contract value of €2.8m (£2.5m), has come from long-term customer the European Space Agency (ESA). Starting this year, SCISYS will work with the ESA’s European Space...
