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The Competition and Markets Authority has launched an investigation into Bath media group Future’s planned £140m takeover of Country Life and Chat publisher TI Media. Announced last October, the deal would have taken Future’s magazine and website portfolio into new areas such as the wine, golf, equestrian, TV listings and gardening while strengthening its...
Bath entrepreneurs and the city’s popular annual Carnival are among shortlisted entries for a major new awards scheme celebrating the West of England’s inspirational small businesses. The Enterprising West of England ‘Ones to Watch’ awards 2020 take place next week to champion the region’s most exciting entrepreneurs, start-ups and SMEs. Some 27 outstanding individuals...
With just a week to go to MEET South West 2020 – the region’s only trade show dedicated to the events industry – its organisers are highlighting its sustainability credentials. When the inaugural event took place last year one of the key objectives was to make it as sustainable as possible. Now with 20202’s...
A grade II listed building in Bath city centre is being marketed as a possible location for a new restaurant, with the agents describing it as a “once in a generation” opportunity to acquire a landmark site. The Friends Meeting House on York Street has been used as a meeting place by Bath Quakers...
The Bath Pub Company, which owns three outlets in the city, is planning to open a new site this spring. The move follows the ending on Monday of its lease on The Chequers on Rivers Street. The firm has turned down the offer from owner Ei Publican Partnerships of a new lease at the...
Bath luxury hotel Homewood has recruited a number of new staff, including a new general manager and executive head chef, and is also to join the Mr & Mrs Smith Collection, the travel club for hotel lovers. The 21-room hotel in Freshford has taken on Ed Fitzpatrick as general manager from the renown Lygon...
Firms are being invited to enter teams for this year’s Brain of Bath Quiz to help end rough sleeping in the city. Up to 24 corporate teams of 10 will go head to head at the event, staged by Julian House, Bath’s main homeless charity, to raise much-needed awareness and funds to help vulnerable...
The region’s top annual business award scheme recognising excellence and enterprise in the boardroom has been launched. The Institute of Directors’ (IoD) South West Director of the Year Awards 2020 aim to champion outstanding leaders and entrepreneurs while also focusing UK-wide attention on success in the region. Nominations – which opened this week – can be...
National specialist engineering group SES Engineering Services has been appointed by the University of Bath to carry out mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) services worth £12.5m. The contract, to be delivered by SES’s Bristol base, covers the university’s new 11,300 sq m Institute for Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems (IAAPS), pictured, on the Bristol &...
