Bath telecoms and IT firm Grapevine is celebrating its 30th anniversary, with its founder and chairman pointing out that a third of its current staff were not even born when it launched. Grapevine began life as a chain of mobile phone shops across the South and South West, including a store on Widcombe...
A revolutionary smartphone safety app that harnesses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to recognise distress in its user’s activity has been created by a team at University of Bath. The Epowar app, trials of which started this week, monitors a wearer’s heart rate and body motion. When changes in these are detected it automatically sends an emergency...
Fashion retailer Primark has awarded a five-year contract to logistics group Wincanton to make deliveries to all its 191 UK stores. Under the contract, which begins early next year, Chippenham-headquartered Wincanton will make more than 50,000 deliveries to Primark stores each year. Wincanton said it would result in significant operational efficiencies for Primark’s...
A previously empty shop in Bath city centre has been transformed to give it a unique double life. On weekdays the unit on New Bond Street, previoulsy occupied by giftware firm Bloomsbury, is used as Bath & North East Somerset Council’s commercial property letting hub while at the weekends becomes a festive pop-up...
A new website to attract tourists to Bath is offering more space to promote the city’s hospitality and leisure businesses along with a host of new features. Launched by Visit Bath, the city’s destination marketing organisation, visitbath.co.uk also gives more prominence to Bath’s unique, year-round visitor attractions under the heading of The Original...
A Bath-based lawyer has become co-president of Bristol Law Society in a move that means the the top role at the organisation will be operated as a job share for the first time in its 251-year history. Edward Thompson, a property litigator with regional firm Battens, and Erin Sawyer, a partner in the Bristol office of national law firm Irwin...
Leading lights in Bath’s higher education, innovation and research communities are being invited to apply for posts representing the sectors on the board of the Western Gateway as it starts to ramp up its work. The gateway is the cross-border economic partnership of eight cities either side of the River Severn, including Bath. The...
Global property consultancy Knight Frank has expanded its regional team with the appointment of Jemima Young on the graduate programme and Claire Stretton as a senior surveyor in the residential development valuation team. Claire, pictured right, joins with 15 years' experience in real estate, having worked at South West property agents Alder King and, most...
2021 was due to be Bath Christmas Market’s 20th anniversary. Whether you love it or hate it, the late cancellation of Bath’s biggest event will have huge financial consequences for the city’s businesses, both big and small. As a local hamper company, we at Taste of Bath can appreciate first-hand the consequences for the...
Monday November 15 Final: Nightcap Interim: Totally Q2 results: Fondul Proprietatea, HG Capital Trust Trading announcement: Kingspan Group Tuesday November 16 Finals: Focusrite, Imperial Brands, Revolution Bars Group Interims: Adept Technology Group, Gear4music, Homeserve, Mckay Securities, Premier Foods, Vodafone Economic announcements: Unemployment rate, Claimant count rate Wednesday November 17 Final: Sage Group Interims: CMC Markets, Experian, Speedy Hire, SSE, Tatton Asset Management, Workspace...
