Bath-headquartered specialist media group Future has postponed two public events as the coronavirus outbreak continues hit businesses across the city – but it said overall the impact on its day-to-day financial performance had been limited. The group has due to stage The Photography Show and The Homebuilding & Renovating Show at the NEC in...
Public transport in Bath could come under the control of a new regionally-led Transport for London-style body with far stronger powers to coordinate services and hold operators to account. Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a £4.2bn boost for regional transport services in this week’s Budget – with the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) promised...
The director of a Frome-based manufacturing firm with major interests in China has spoken about the impact of coronavirus on the business. Sino Manufacturing Solutions’ factory in Shenzen, which employs more than 100 people, was not operational for five weeks earlier this year after enforced closure following the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak. The facility specialises...
The battle of the bats returns to the West of England in May when the region’s third Ping Pong Fight Club takes place – and Bath businesses are being urged to sign up to enter teams for the unique, all-action event. This year the popular table-top challenge moves to the larger venue of Walkabout...
The corporate team at Bath-headquartered law firm Royds Withy King has provided equity investment support to the local entrepreneurs behind a new kitchen, food market and lifestyle store due to open this summer. Called Teals, the venture on the busy A303 at North Cadbury in Somerset aims to connect local communities to local producers....
Bath creative businesses that want to expand are being encouraged to bid for a new growth programme before its March 31 deadline. The Creative Scale Up programme, run by the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) and financed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, aims to boost opportunities for the creative...
Bath advisors have welcomed a number of measures in the Budget, although the decision to cut, rather than scrap, Entrepreneurs’ Relief received a mixed response. Entrepreneurs’ Relief (ER) – a reduced Capital Gains Tax rate aimed at incentivising the building of successful businesses – has been criticised in some quarters for mainly benefiting wealthy business owners rather...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s spending commitments on major infrastructure projects received the thumbs up from the region’s industry – but the fact that the West of England was again overlooked in favour of the ‘powerhouses’ of the North and Midlands did not go unnoticed. Tim Davis, head of property agents Cushman & Wakefield’s South West...
Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, has welcomed Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s response to the coronavirus crisis in his Budget – but warned that its commitment to funding big-scale ‘levelling-up’ infrastructure projects through borrowing could unravel if the economy goes into recession. Managing director Phil Smith, pictured, said a strong statement of intent from...
The CBI described Rishi Sunak’s first Budget as “bold” in combining the much-needed immediate response to the coronavirus crisis with longer-term measures to boost the economy. Director-general Dame Carolyn Fairbairn, pictured, said the Chancellor had worked against the clock in deeply challenging times to deliver two Budgets in one – the first for national...
