Profits at Chippenham-based supply chain management group Wincanton have fallen despite it winning a raft of new business and successfully renewing a number of contracts. The group blamed the 5.6% decrease in underlying operating profits to £23.5m in the half year to the end of September on two “onerous” home shopping contracts coming to...
Christine Bunting, director at specialist law firm Hyphen, which has a base in Bath, has received one of Prime Minister David Cameron’s Points of Light awards, which recognise outstanding volunteers who are making a change in their community and inspiring others. Christine gained the accolade through her work with Cerebra, a unique national charity...
Alliance Pharma, the Chippenham-based speciality pharmaceutical firm, is to receive £6.7m in compensation for lost sales of a bladder cancer treatment. ImmuCyst, one of its top-selling drugs, had peak annual sales of more than £4m before Alliance’s manufacturing partner French healthcare giant Sanofi Pasteur suspended production in mid-2012 at a Canadian plant after mold...
Up to 100,000 sq ft of newly refurbished employment space in one of the landmark buildings on the former Cadbury’s chocolate factory site at Keynsham is to be marketed by regional property consultancy Alder King. All three of the site’s historic red brick factory buildings were acquired earlier this year by Bristol-based elderly care...
West of England firms are right behind the Prime Minister as he sets out his opening position on renegotiating the UK’s relationship with the EU, according to the region’s largest business organisation. Business West, which runs Bath Chamber of Commerce, says the region’s businesses want a clear settlement that keeps the UK in a...
A high-profile housing development site on the edge of Bath city centre has been sold for a much higher price than expected. Hope House, pictured, a Grade II listed former girls’ school, which is set in 6.18 acres of grounds in Lansdown, has been acquired by property group Acorn for £13.1m in a joint...
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Bath’s Business Improvement District is preparing for another five-year term after being given the go-ahead to continue in a ballot of city centre firms. It will now look to further develop Bath’s early evening economy and introduce Welcome Hosts in key areas such as the railway station as well as continuing with successful initiatives...
Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week, Nigel Smith, director of Bath craft workshop and party business The Makery, answers our 10 questions What was the LAST: Film you watched? Ant-Man. It was a film about a man...
By Jonathan O’Shea, interim chief executive of Bath Business Improvement District. The Business Improvement District (BID) board is delighted that the city’s business community has chosen to endorse a second five-year term for the BID. Some 48% of eligible business voted and of those 76% voted in favour of renewal, with 81% in favour...
