The importance of Bath’s tourist industry is to be highlighted during English Tourism Week, which starts this Saturday. Bath Tourism Plus, the official destination marketing organisation for the city and surrounding area, is to use the week to demonstrate the raise the profile of the industry and demonstrate its value to the economy. Latest...
GCI Telecom Group, one of the UK’s fastest-growing corporate IT and communications providers, has secured a £22m facility with Barclays Corporate to support its acquisition strategy. The Lincoln-based group, which has office in Westbury as a result of its 2010 acquisition of IT firm Invomo, provides phone and data services to medium-sized and small...
With just two weeks to go to Rabbit South West, the region’s most dynamic B2B networking event and exhibition, a competition has been launched to win one of the last exhibition stands on offer. Rabbit takes place on March 20 at Brunel’s Old Station, Temple Meads, Bristol and delegates, who can register for free,...
Dozens of business leaders attended a Chinese banquet to learn about a major opportunity to trade with the Far East. During the special reception at the Bristol'’s Zen Restaurant, they heard about a planned November 2012 Bristol and South West IoD trade mission to China. It will see South West business directors visit China for a week as they target...
Accountants and business advisers Grant Thornton have won the contract to perform work for the public sector across the South West now carried out by the Audit Commission. The five-year contract, awarded on the basis of audit quality and value, will begin in September. The Government is dismantling the Audit Commission – the body...
KFraser Textiles, an independent business celebrating traditional British craftsmanship, officially opened its new shop in Bath’s Milsom Place this week. The business is the brainchild of hand weaver Katherine Fraser who creates modern contemporary fabrics using traditional weaving looms and yarns. Katherine’s work is known for its stunning colour combinations and beautiful feel against...
Bath and Bristol are working together for the first time to raise their international profile at MIPIM, Europe’s largest property fair taking place in Cannes this week. The West of England’s four local authorities will run a large stand to showcase the area as a world-class location for creativity and technology to an international...
South West chairman of the Institute of Directors (IoD) Gerry Jones has urged Chancellor George Osborne to reform Air Passenger Duty (APD) in this month’s Budget to help regional airports like Bristol. He called on the Treasury to either freeze the rate of duty or introduce two-tier pricing and accused successive governments of ‘being...
