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...
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...
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...
Bath manufacturing group Rotork is benefiting from growing investment in carbon capture projects and by oil and gas companies in North American to use electrification to eliminate methane emissions. As a result, the group, which designs and makes flow control equipment for the global oil, gas, water and chemical industries, said today it expects...
Lightweight car and motorbike wheel manufacturer Dymag is to accelerate the global mass production of its technology after securing investment from a South Korean firm. The funding from advanced materials manufacturer Hankuk Carbon builds on an existing strategic partnership between the two firms. That deal, signed a year ago, aims to mass manufacture Chippenham-based...
A rebound in its European markets and continued growth in others gave Bath-headquartered spectacles designer and manufacturer Inspecs a positive end to 2022, with its chief executive describing it as a year of two halves. The group, which produces a wide range of spectacle frames and lenses, including sunglasses and safety glasses, for markets...
Bath area firms are being urged to join more than 125 firms across the UK that have already signed a pledge to never support or promote blood sports such as hunting or shooting. The plea has come from West of England Metro Mayor Dan Norris, who is also chair of the League Against Cruel...
The reopening of the Chinese economy after three years of Covid-related lockdowns combined with higher UK sales and an end to discounting to boost revenues at iconic Somerset-based fashion business Mulberry. The firm, best known for its high-end designer bags, revealed sales were slightly ahead of last year in a trading update for its...
Confidence among West of England firms has recovered sharply from its slump last year, according to the latest research by the region’s largest business organisation – but continued staff shortages are now adding to their problems. The quarterly survey by Business West, which runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce, shows firms’ confidence in both the...
A scheme has been launched by Bath Spa University to help tackle the city’s digital skills gap with fully funded courses over the next 18 months. The university has partnered with the Institute of Coding (IoC) – a national consortium of industry, educators and outreach providers led by the University of Bath - London-based not-for-profit social...
