Innovative start-ups and high-growth businesses based at SETsquared, the global number one business incubator backed by the University of Bath, will soon be able to pitch online for vital investment in a move that maintains its world-leading status. Pitching for the incubator’s investment programme has traditionally involved running panel selection days in front of a live...
The Festival of Female Entrepreneurs returns to the West of England next Friday for its fifth year, bringing together some of the UK’s most influential female entrepreneurs, business leaders and brightest start-ups to provide detailed insight for starting and scaling a business. The jam-packed programme at the At-Bristol science centre includes: Julie Deane, who...
Hundreds of business people from across Bath and the West of England are today taking part in brilliant networking opportunities, inspirational workshops and hearing engaging speakers at the city’s largest business show. Bath Business Show, taking place at The Guildhall between 10am and 3pm, sold out for exhibitors long ago and organisers are expecting...
Bath’s business community must make sure its voice is heard loud and clear as the city prepares for the huge impact of Brexit and regional devolution, according to MP Ben Howlett. He told a roundtable discussion staged by Bath Business News and hosted by Barclays that only by pulling together could businesses ensure the...
Brilliant networking opportunities will be on offer at Bath Business Show next Friday – the largest business event of its kind in the area. The show has now sold out for exhibitors and organisers expect to attract even than the 450 delegates who attended last year. Taking place at The Guildhall between 10am and...
Specialist IT group SCISYS has bounced back into profit with trading figures for the half year to the end of June showing a complete recovery from its disastrous 2015. The Chippenham-based group, which sells complex software systems to the space, defence, media and government sectors, chalked up an operating profit of £1.1m in the six months...
Upmarket sofa maker Roger Lewis has streamlined its ordering processes with high street retail giant John Lewis thanks to an IT firm based less than two miles away. Roger Lewis, based on Trowbridge’s White Horse Business Park, designs iconic furniture for high-end retailers such as John Lewis and The Conran Shop, and makes around...
A team of Bath-based corporate advisers have helped the UK subsidiary of a French firm with a major acquisition that involved complex cross-border negotiations. The corporate and commercial team at law firm Royds Withy King, tax advisers at Bishop Fleming and specialist technology merger and acquisition (M&A) advisers ICON Corporate Finance advised on the...
The first apprentice taken on by specialist IT support business Priority IT has secured a full-time job with the firm, which has now recruited its second apprentice. Adam Townsend joined the Trowbridge-based firm a year ago from Wiltshire College, where he obtained an Advanced Level 3 Apprenticeship qualification in IT. The 19-year-old has been...
MDS Technologies, the Chippenham-based enterprise and digital platform service provider, has been named as one of the UK’s fastest-growing private tech companies. The firm, whose blue-chip customers include a range of central Government departments, local authorities, NHS organisations and large IT service providers, appears in 54st place in The Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track...
