Bath businesses are being encouraged to head up the M4 to Swindon next month to take part in the town’s annual business show, where the keynote speaker will be Rob Law, the inventor of child’s ride-on suitcase Trunki. The event, on May 15, is again hosted by Business West, which runs the Swindon &...
Business West, the lobbying and advice group that runs Bath Chamber of Commerce, welcomed today’s fall in inflation but warned that the Government still needed to do more to support business as it emerges from recession. Managing director Phil Smith said the drop in annual CPI (consumer price index) inflation from 1.7% in February...
Shares in SciSys, the Chippenham-based specialist software and IT group SciSys, climbed by nearly 3% this morning after it announced it had secured a €1.8m (£1.48m), six-year contract to work on Europe’s most advanced geostationary weather satellite. The firm, whose roots are in the European space industry, will supply mission operations technology for European...
Monday 14 April Interims: Carr’s Milling Industries Finals: DDD Group, M. P. Evans Group, Networkers International EGMS: JSC KazMunaiGaz Exploration Production GDR (Reg S) AGMS: Bank Audi S.A.L. GDR (Repr 1’Com’Shr Lbp1299) (Reg S), Baronsmead VCT 3, Baronsmead VCT 4, Baronsmead VCT 5, Guaranty Trust Bank GDR (Reg S) Tuesday 15 April Finals: Amara...
An Export Week event tomorrow will explain how Bath businesses can unlock the potential of South East Asian markets. Export Week aims to encourage firms to consider trading internationally or, for existing exporters, to look at new markets. UK Trade and Investment (UKTI), the Government organisation committed to boosting overseas trade, is staging a...
Innovative Bath firm Industrial Phycology, which uses algae to recover valuable resources from wastewater, has taken a major step towards funding after becoming joint winner of a major national business competition. The firm, based at the SETsquared innovation hub at the University of Bath, took part in the ‘pitch with the greatest commercial potential’...
