Trowbridge-based charity People against Poverty’s business arm Business against Poverty (BaP) has launched the BaP Business Skills Academy to stage learning and development training programmes with ethical values at their core. BaP has just under 100 business members who support it through subscriptions, sponsorship and services and in return enjoy a series of profile-raising,...
IT company Systemagic, which has offices in Bath and Trowbridge, has helped local construction firm Halsall improve efficiency by overcoming poor communication links between its head office and building sites. At any one time Halsall, which works mainly in the residential, health and education sectors, can be operating on up to 15 sites –...
The search is on for the best cider orchard in the West with apple growers being encouraged to compete for the silver medal awarded annually by the Royal Bath and West Show. This year’s contest is expected to be tougher than ever as the number and extent of orchards planted to produce cider apples...
Bath businesses are being encouraged to head up the M4 to Swindon next month to take part in the town’s annual business show, where the keynote speaker will be Rob Law, the inventor of child’s ride-on suitcase Trunki. The event, on May 15, is again hosted by Business West, which runs the Swindon &...
Business West, the lobbying and advice group that runs Bath Chamber of Commerce, welcomed this week's fall in inflation but warned that the Government still needed to do more to support business as it emerges from recession. Managing director Phil Smith said the drop in annual CPI (consumer price index) inflation from 1.7% in...
Shares in SciSys, the Chippenham-based specialist software and IT group SciSys, climbed by nearly 3% recently after it announced it had secured a €1.8m (£1.48m), six-year contract to work on Europe’s most advanced geostationary weather satellite. The firm, whose roots are in the European space industry, will supply mission operations technology for European Organisation...
Monday 14 April Interims: Carr’s Milling Industries Finals: DDD Group, M. P. Evans Group, Networkers International EGMS: JSC KazMunaiGaz Exploration Production GDR (Reg S) AGMS: Bank Audi S.A.L. GDR (Repr 1’Com’Shr Lbp1299) (Reg S), Baronsmead VCT 3, Baronsmead VCT 4, Baronsmead VCT 5, Guaranty Trust Bank GDR (Reg S) Tuesday 15 April Finals: Amara...
An Export Week event tomorrow will explain how Bath businesses can unlock the potential of South East Asian markets. Export Week aims to encourage firms to consider trading internationally or, for existing exporters, to look at new markets. UK Trade and Investment (UKTI), the Government organisation committed to boosting overseas trade, is staging a...
Innovative Bath firm Industrial Phycology, which uses algae to recover valuable resources from wastewater, has taken a major step towards funding after becoming joint winner of a major national business competition. The firm, based at the SETsquared innovation hub at the University of Bath, took part in the ‘pitch with the greatest commercial potential’...
Bath-based brand agency The House has clinched a double victory at the prestigious Transform Awards, which celebrate rebranding, repositioning and brand transformation in the UK and in Europe’s creative industries. The House won silver for its identity and event branding for Special Olympics GB and also gained a bronze for its rebranding of Norton...
