The payroll team at regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming has been shortlisted in a highly regarded national award scheme for the third year running. The firm, which has an office in Bath, is competing in the ‘Payroll Service Provider of The Year’ category of the National Annual Excellence Awards staged by the Chartered Institute...
Monday September 27 Final: Oxford Cannabinoid Tech Holdings Interims: Fireangel Safety Technology Group, Instem, Medica Group, Microsaic Systems, Minds + Machines Group, Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Tuesday September 28 Finals: Blancco Technology Group, Close Bros, Ferguson, Smiths Group, Transense Technologies Interims: Animalcare Group, Barr (A.G.), Card Factory, Digitalbox, Ergomed, Escape Hunt, Heiq, Immotion Group, Itaconix, Likewise Group, Lords Group,...
Rebranding last year when the pandemic was at its worst paid off, the CEO of Bath-headquartered specialist lender Time Finance has said as the firm reported higher annual profits and an improved cash position. The new brand for the business, previously known as 1pm, had created a clear identity in a crowded and competitive market and...
Bristol Airport’s expansions plans have been slammed as “badly judged, badly timed and bad for our planet” in a dramatic U-turn by the West of England regional body’s political leadership. The West of England Combined Authority (WECA), which covers Bath and is now led by Labour Metro Mayor Dan Norris following his election in...
Bath-headquartered cloud services company Cloud Direct is poised for further expansion after receiving a £3m strategic investment from international IT group Crayon. Listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange, Crayon Group employs more than 2,000 people in 35 countries. The deal gives it an unspecified minority stake in Cloud Direct, one of the UK’s leading...
Bath Film Office’s behind-the-scenes role in mega-successful TV period drama Bridgerton has been recognised by being shortlisted in major industry award. The small team in the office, which is run by Bath & North East Somerset Council, worked with the Bridgerton production crew on road closures, street furniture removal, street lighting removal and parking to enable...
SETsquared, the globally acclaimed, University of Bath-supported business incubator, has expanded with the addition of Cardiff University. Cardiff has become the sixth member of the partnership, which has been named three times as the world’s number one university business incubator. SETsquared was set up in 2002 by a small group of research-intensive universities in...
Bath-headquartered law firm Royds Withy King has become one of the first in the UK to offer compassionate leave to employees who suffer pregnancy loss before 24 weeks. Under the firm’s new pregnancy loss policy, any of its 480 employees will be entitled to up to two weeks’ paid time off should they –...
New University of Bath students are to be the first in the UK to get the chance to learn about the environmental impact of their everyday activities such as travel and eating habits, along with how they can reduce it. The university said carbon literacy will now form part of the traditional annual induction...
Grant Associates, the Bath landscape architecture practice best known for its eye-catching large-scale projects across the globe, has won a gold medal for its first garden Chelsea Flower Show. The firm’s Chinese-inspired Guangzhou Garden, pictured, shows how cities of the future must be considered as landscape cities. Designed by the practice’s director Peter Chmiel and senior...
