Bath’s pandemic-hit meetings and events industry is to get free access to a pioneering scheme that allows events staged in different cities to link up through live-streaming technology. Nationwide initiative Hybrid Event Solutions UK (HESUK) has been launched by the convention bureaus covering England’s main cities – including the recently-launched regional body that promotes...
Bath residents are being urged to show their love for the city’s independent businesses this Valentine's Day by spending locally. Bath’s Business Improvement District (BID) – the organisation representing nearly 500 firms in the city centre – is encouraging people to support city businesses this Sunday by taking part in Love Local Day. Over...
A development of nine energy-efficient family homes which will help provide affordable housing have reached the ‘topping out’ stage with the installation of solar panels. St Joseph’s Court on Sladebrook Road, Southdown, is being built by Aequus, the Bath & North East Somerset Council’s construction and development company, which was set up to help...
The Institute of Directors in the South West has appointed experienced tech sector independent director James Savage and Steve Hill, the former managing director of defence contractor SEA, as ambassadors. James, pictured, who has spent 30-plus years in the sector, will be the IoD’s regional ambassador for high-tech industry and tech ventures, having been an independent director on the boards...
Property agents are offering a rare chance to buy a large warehouse and distribution complex with offices and a showroom ahead of its current occupier relocating. The freehold 49,452 sq ft multi-unit site in Warminster, pictured, currently occupied by Bath-based licensed giftware wholesaler Half Moon Bay, is on the market with a guide price...
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Rengen, the Bath property company behind a number of the city’s recent high-profile redevelopments, has secured a £40m finance agreement to fund a new raft of developments across the South West. The debt funding agreement with the real estate division of Intermediate Capital Group (ICG), the London-based global alternative asset manager, will be used to buy...
Bath-based specialist online publisher SelectScience has secured a major private equity investment and appointed a new CEO as it looks to accelerate its growth. The firm, based at Corston, was formed in 1998 with a mission to introduce peer-to-peer and digital marketing services into the scientific industry. It has expanded to provide vital online...
Good Energy founding chief executive officer Juliet Davenport is to stand down from the role as the green energy provider undergoes a major transformation. Juliet, pictured, founded the Chippenham-based firm as a fledgling entrepreneur two decades ago with a clear purpose to give consumers the power to tackle climate change by choosing renewable power. ...
Bath’s promotion as a prime location for international conferences and business events is to be stepped up with the launch of a new regional convention bureau. Instead of marketing the city as a standalone location to the global meetings industry – as it has been for the past 18 years by destination marketing organisation...
