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Former Royal Navy officer joins BMT Asset Performance on business development role

October 5, 2017
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Former Royal Navy officer joins BMT Asset Performance on business development role

BMT Asset Performance, the Bath-based specialist engineering consultancy, has appointed Paul Haycock as business development lead for surface systems.  Paul, pictured, joins after 35 years in the Royal Navy, during which he served on a variety of ships and in a diverse range of environments, including as a warfare officer and Lynx helicopter observer. ...

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Bath Ales takeover propels St Austell Brewery into fast-growth league table

September 29, 2017
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Bath Ales takeover propels St Austell Brewery into fast-growth league table

The acquisition of Bath Ales has helped St Austell Brewery achieve a record annual turnover of £153m and earn a place among the UK’s fastest-growing mid-market firms for the first time. Following the Bath Ales takeover in July last year, Cornwall-based St Austell’s sales powered ahead by 14%. The brewery, which was founded in...

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Business West on top of the world after winning global chamber of commerce award

September 29, 2017
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Business West on top of the world after winning global chamber of commerce award

Business West, the organisation that runs Bath Chamber of Commerce, has been named as the world’s best chamber for an export development programme that has helped create thousands of jobs.   The organisation, which runs chambers of commerce across the South West, was one of five similar groups from across the globe to win...

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University of Bath research reveals how employee outsourcing can hide slaves in the workforce

September 29, 2017
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University of Bath research reveals how employee outsourcing can hide slaves in the workforce

Businesses that fail to monitor their outsourced recruitment could find themselves inadvertently employing victims of modern slavery, according to new research led by the University of Bath’s School of Management. Interviews with businesses, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), trade unions, law firms and the police found that while companies can increasingly trace where their products come...

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Assistant regional director joins the CBI in the South West

September 18, 2017
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Assistant regional director joins the CBI in the South West

The CBI has appointed Ben Rhodes as its new assistant regional director in the South West. Ben, pictured, joins from the Devon and Cornwall Business Council, where he was chief executive for five-and-a-half years. His responsibilities in the newly created role will include promoting the South West as a great place to invest and...

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University of Bath event offers chance to hear about unique Productivity through People programme

September 15, 2017
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University of Bath event offers chance to hear about unique Productivity through People programme

Small and medium-sized enterprises from across the South West are being invited to the preview in Bath of a unique programme aimed at supporting and investing in the business leaders of the future. Productivity through People is a collaboration between four world-class organisations with the University of Bath School of Management, which has co-designed...

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Last chances for Bath businesses to have their say on draft economic vision for the West of England

September 15, 2017
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Last chances for Bath businesses to have their say on draft economic vision for the West of England

Bath businesses have just a few weeks left to comment on a new economic blueprint for the West of England which aims to make it a “beacon of growth and innovation”. The draft strategy was launched in July by West of England Mayor Tim Bowles and interim chair of the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP)...

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UK Female Start-up of the Year to be crowned next month

September 14, 2017
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UK Female Start-up of the Year to be crowned next month

The search is on to find Britain’s female start-up of the Year – with the winner following in the footsteps of two West of England-based businesswomen. The successful entrant will be crowned in Bristol next month following a live pitching session on stage at the annual Festival of Female Entrepreneurs, which returns to the...

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Places still available for ‘smart tech’ pioneers at Venturefest’s investor showcase

September 11, 2017
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Places still available for ‘smart tech’ pioneers at Venturefest’s investor showcase

Tech start-ups and scale-ups seeking funding have just a week left to apply for the Silicon Gorge Investor Showcase taking place as part of Venturefest Bristol & Bath next month. Applications, which must be in by September 15, are open to early stage tech firms – those looking for investment of between £100,000 and...

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Second Tech Track 100 placing for pioneering University of Bath spin-out

September 8, 2017
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Second Tech Track 100 placing for pioneering University of Bath spin-out

A company that spun out of the University of Bath is to appear in a league table of the UK’s fastest-growing private tech, media and telecoms firms for the second time in two years. Qualasept Pharmaxo, which has developed the UK’s single biggest aseptic clean room, has achieved annual sales growth of 77% over...

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