Bath businesses that care about their city are being urged to step up their philanthropy and offer support for organisations that prevent local people suffering mental health crises. The plea comes from the Quartet Community Foundation, the independent charity that works across the West of England to support local philanthropists in their charitable giving. ...
Bath-headquartered employment agency Juice Recruitment has launched a division to specialise in management positions across finance and accountancy, HR, commerce and business. The new division will be headed by Juice business manager Ali Watson, pictured, who has been with the agency for 13 years and managed its permanent division for five years. During this...
Firms in Bath and across the West of England are continuing to miss out on millions of pounds of research and development (R&D) tax credits, according to accountancy firm Bishop Fleming. R&D tax specialists at the firm, Bath’s largest accountants, say that even though there has been a 20% increase in companies claiming the...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
