Ambitious plans for a business park on the outskirts of Frome that could create 635 jobs and contribute more than £6.5m to the town’s economy have been announced. The scheme has been drawn up by the directors of DNA search group DNA Worldwide and a group of other Frome businesses. They plan...
The IoD South West Director of the Year Awards have grown over the years to represent the pinnacle of leadership and business excellence across the region. The 2018 awards ceremony took place earlier this month at Sandy Park, Exeter, where winners of the seven categories were announced. Guests enjoyed drinks and networking before the...
High-flying Bath firms are being urged to swoop on the last few Minerva’s Owls statues available for sponsorship as the city’s eagerly-anticipated three-month public art trail gets underway today. More than 80 large owl and smaller owlet sculptures have been nesting around the city centre and in surrounding towns such as Bradford-on-Avon, Newton St...
Global engineering giant Renishaw has been named as the ‘winner of winners’ as the prestigious PwC West of England Business of the Year Awards marked their 30th – and last – year. Launched in 1988 by accountants PwC to showcase the region’s top large businesses, the awards have since become the South West’s most-respected...
Bath businesses are being invited to hear how they can prepare for the challenges and opportunities of Brexit at an event tomorrow. The day-long Trade Horizons event – part of the Export for Growth roadshow – takes place at the Aerospace Museum, Filton, Bristol. It is one of four sessions being staged across the South...
Innovative small and medium-sized firms from the Bath area can apply for grants of between £10,000 and £75,000 to carry out research and development following the relaunch of an established funding programme. Innovation 4 Growth (I4G) funding totalling £500,000 is available to businesses from across the West of England in all sectors who...
A Shepton Mallet firm has helped process the first European Certificate of Origin using Blockchain technology – potentially giving the West of England a head start in a global market expected to be worth $20bn within six years. The request was submitted by South Gloucestershire global engineering group Renishaw to Business West – the...
Six very different companies from the Bath area have been named among 1,000 of the UK’s most inspiring small and medium-sized businesses. 1pm, AlertSystems, Francis Flower, Image Factory, London & Country Mortgages and Mirage Inks appear in the London Stock Exchange Group’s latest 1000 Companies list, which celebrates the most dynamic SMEs in the UK. ...
Lloyds Bank has launched a £100m fund to help small businesses take advantage of supply chain opportunities linked to the construction of Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset. The fund, which opened today, will help small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the UK access discounted lending and become involved in one of...
A programme to enable some of the UK’s best tech scale-up companies become the sector giants of tomorrow has been launched by the University of Bath. The programme, part of a national project, is supported by £5m of government money through Research England’s Connecting Capability Fund. It will enable 240 of the most innovative...
