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Event: Masterclass on employee relations to be staged by Goughs Solicitors and Simple Recruitment

June 9, 2023
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Event: Masterclass on employee relations to be staged by Goughs Solicitors and Simple Recruitment

Bath businesses can find out the best routes through the employee relations minefield at a masterclass being staged by Goughs Solicitors and Simple Recruitment. They have teamed up with Radio Bath for the half-day event on 4 July at Doubletree by Hilton on Walcot St.  The masterclass is aimed at businesses and owner-managers who...

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Festival of Sustainable Business Exhibition returns to guide firms on their environmental journey

June 8, 2023
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Festival of Sustainable Business Exhibition returns to guide firms on their environmental journey

Bath area firms will be able to access the latest advice and guidance to enable them to become sustainable when the region’s largest annual environmental exhibition returns next week. Staged by Bristol specialist business hub Future Leap at the city’s Paintworks creative hub on Bath Road, the Festival of Sustainable Business Exhibition next Thursday, 15...

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Surveys point to weak business confidence as South West firms remain gloomiest in the UK

June 2, 2023
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Surveys point to weak business confidence as South West firms remain gloomiest in the UK

Confidence among South West firms remains the most fragile of any UK region, according to two new surveys, with weak economic growth and skills shortages among the biggest challenges. Business optimism in the region fell six percentage points during May according to the latest Business Barometer from Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking. Firms also reported...

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Engineering firm targeting growth after Time Finance steps in with asset-based lending deal

June 1, 2023
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Engineering firm targeting growth after Time Finance steps in with asset-based lending deal

Bath-headquartered alternative lender Time Finance has said that a £1.1m asset-based lending (ABL) facility it arranged for an expanding structural steel engineering firm proves how effective such deals can be. The unnamed firm, based in the South East, was introduced to Time Finance by its financial consultant, Kent-based Open InVoice Finance, which had been brought...

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Cheese and cream exporter’s sales soar after it lands grants to support its production line upgrade

May 26, 2023
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Cheese and cream exporter’s sales soar after it lands grants to support its production line upgrade

Dairy company Coombe Castle has scaled up its operations to meet continued global demand for its cheese and clotted cream after being awarded a series of grants. The firm, based in Melksham, exports across the globe, including to Japan, Canada, the US and Hong Kong.  Following bespoke support from membership team at Business West,...

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Pearson May Financial Update: ‘Full expensing’ explained

May 24, 2023
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Pearson May Financial Update: ‘Full expensing’ explained

In his Budget speech in March, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt kicked off the government’s plan for growth with changes to business tax legislation, a key policy being ‘full expensing’. But what did the Chancellor mean by ‘full expensing’ and how does the policy work? Pearson May partner Matthew Rutter explains. What is full expensing? Under...

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Hydrogen-fuelled bus project puts University of Bath at the centre of low-carbon transport revolution

May 19, 2023
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Hydrogen-fuelled bus project puts University of Bath at the centre of low-carbon transport revolution

The University of Bath is to play a key role in a pioneering project to make clean hydrogen-fuelled buses a reality – helping support hundreds of jobs and saving millions of tonnes of CO2. The university and its Institute for Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems (IAAPS), pictured, have been selected as strategic partners in the...

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Recognition for pair of Bath businesses in table of UK’s fastest-growing firms

May 19, 2023
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Recognition for pair of Bath businesses in table of UK’s fastest-growing firms

Two pioneering Bath firms have been named among the country’s 100 fastest-growing businesses. Independent broadband provider Truespeed and Inspecs, the spectacles designer and manufacturer, appear in the latest ORESA Growth Index, which lists the top 100 fastest growing businesses in the UK.  The prestigious report analyses the financial performance of more than 32,000 firms...

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TEDxBath organisers looking for backers to help them share ideas and issues that are vital to the city

May 5, 2023
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TEDxBath organisers looking for backers to help them share ideas and issues that are vital to the city

TEDxBath returns later this year with a mission to “kick-start new and inclusive conversations” – with its organisers now offering sponsorship packages to firms in the city and beyond. The event, to be staged in The Forum on Saturday 14 October, will feature six speakers and two acts and, according to the team behind...

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New chapter for Bath Foodbank as firms get together to launch city’s first bookbanks

May 5, 2023
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A group of businesses and charities have teamed up to launch a scheme that means families using Bath Foodbank can now take new books home for their children alongside their groceries. Bath Bookbank’s launch follows publication of a survey revealing that nearly one-in-five children aged from five to eight do not have a single...

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