Some of Bath’s top lawyers and the firms they work for have earning top billing in The Legal 500, the leading annual guide to law firms and solicitors in the UK. While the directory’s South West section is dominated, as in previous years, by Bristol’s large national and international firms, a number of lawyers...
Bath’s firms are being invited to take part in a public project to fill the city’s streets with giant bunting made from their artwork and designs in the run-up to Christmas. The competition has been launched by the city’s Business Improvement District (BID) and printing firm Minuteman Press Bath, who see it as a...
Bath’s iconic Christmas Market is to go virtual to ensure its range artists and makers can continue to showcase their products in the all-important festive sales season. With the traditional Christmas market falling victim to the coronavirus pandemic this year, traders can instead promote themselves on bathchristmasmarket.co.uk. Visitors to the site will be directed...
Strong exports to the US, Canada, and Australia have lifted revenues at tech innovator Scanning Pens, which produces pens that help dyslexic children and adults to read. The firm, based in Westbury, Wiltshire, was co-founded in 2003 by Jack Churchill and Toby Sutton. Their skill and interest in edtech as well as Jack’s personal...
As the seventh month of working from home approaches and the season starts to change, Mogers Drewett HR consultant Lucy Cotterell offers some guidance and tips aimed at helping managers to ensure they can support their team’s health and wellbeing. With the Centre for Mental Health charity predicting that up to 10m people (almost...
Bristol Airport, airlines and regional business leaders have welcomed the government’s decision to launch a global travel taskforce to investigate ways of introducing Covid-19 testing for travellers arriving at UK airports. But there has also been criticism of delays by ministers in getting to this stage when other countries, such as Germany, have already...
Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, has launched a directory service to help signpost firms to vital advice, opportunities and support services. Back to Business is an evolution of Business West’s highly successful Trading Through Coronavirus platform, which has been visited by more than 100,000 businesses across the South West. It has been launched...
Bath-based Event Store, one of the UK’s top datatech firms, has received a strategic investment in a deal described as transformational for the industry. Event Store’s EventStoreDB has been a market leader in event sourcing and event-driven architecture used by developers since its launch in 2011. It will use the investment from Qualasept Holdings (QH) – based...
An historic business that has worked with the food industry for more than 120 years is beginning a new phase of growth after refinancing with HSBC in a move handled by regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming. Shepton Mallet-based Framptons, which makes food packaging and egg products, will now be able to take advantage of...
IT support firm Systemagic has recruited three new staff to its award-winning team as it continues to grow. Aaron Crouch joins the Bradford on Avon-based firm as an IT technician after working alongside Systemagic for a number of years. His main focus will be predominantly to support one of Systemagic’s larger clients with all...
