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...
InterAction of Bath, a consultancy specialising in ergonomics and human factors, is to 3D scan 1,400 military personnel as part of a major Ministry of Defence project. The consultancy, which has carried out a number of smaller exercises for the MoD, will collect the size and shape of the male and female personnel, including...
Ahead of a major export promotion event next week, Bath Business News profiles local firm Foot Trails, which has achieved success in the US, where it now generates half its sales. Inspired by a 680-mile stroll across France, farmer’s daughter Alison Howells set out on a one-woman mission to change the stereotypical image of...
