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Ahead of the Agenda: The Week Ahead

March 29, 2021
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Monday March 29 Finals: Dev Clever Holdings, Digitalbox, Eleco, Globaltrans Investment, Impact Health, Quixant, Ten Entertainment Group Economic announcement: Nationwide house price index Tuesday March 30 Finals: Animalcare Group, Barr (A.G.), Central Asia, Chesnara, Dialight, EKF Diganostics Holdings, Itaconix, Loopup Group, Michelmersh Brick Holdings, REI Agro, S & U, Silence Therapeutics, Yu Group Interim: Nanoco               Trading announcements: 3i Group,...

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£500k boost for scheme aiming to bring empty high street shops back to life

March 26, 2021
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£500k boost for scheme aiming to bring empty high street shops back to life

A project to breathe new life into vacant shops and buildings in high streets across Bath and North East Somerset has been awarded £500,000. Empty retail properties in Bath will be used for creative projects and pop-up businesses, with satellite projects in Keynsham and Midsomer Norton to follow across a two-year programme.  The Vacant...

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Bath Building Society hails ‘remarkable’ financial results as it overcomes impact of Covid-19

March 26, 2021
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Bath Building Society hails ‘remarkable’ financial results as it overcomes impact of Covid-19

Bath Building Society has escaped the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic to increase its mortgage lending to record levels while also taking on more savers. The society, which has more than 20,000 savers and 1,200 mortgage customers, described its financial performance last year as “remarkable” and said, despite unprecedented challenges caused by Covid-19,...

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Shift to remote working brings in more business for Bath ‘human experience’ analytics firm

March 26, 2021
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Shift to remote working brings in more business for Bath ‘human experience’ analytics firm

Bath’s Actual Experience has won another order for its pioneering advanced analytics system that enables companies to improve operational efficiency as more staff work from home. The firm introduced its Human Experience Management (HXM) product a year ago as many businesses were forced to adopt remote and home working.  Along with its Business Impact...

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Bath businesses fly the flag for the city in the South West’s top tourism awards

March 26, 2021
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Bath businesses fly the flag for the city in the South West’s top tourism awards

Some of Bath’s leading hospitality firms and venues will go head to head against the South West’s top businesses from the sector in the region’s tourism excellence awards next month. Having out-performed their rivals in last week’s Bristol, Bath and Somerset Tourism Awards – as revealed by Bath Business News – the Bath businesses...

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New managing director for Bath Life publisher MediaClash as it rises to post-Covid challenges

March 26, 2021
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New managing director for Bath Life publisher MediaClash as it rises to post-Covid challenges

MediaClash, the Bath-based publishing group best known in the city for its Bath Life magazine, has appointed Steph Dodd as managing director. Steph, pictured, was previously the firm’s events director. She takes up the new role next month when she returns from maternity leave.  She will now be responsible for the company’s market-leading magazine...

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Change at the top at BLB Solicitors as managing director steps down after 13 years

March 26, 2021
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Regional law firm BLB Solicitors, which has offices in and around Bath, is to undergo a rare change of management – only the second in its 42-year history. Managing partner Stephen Bishop is stepping down from the role, although he will remain with the practice as head of residential property. The new joint managing...

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PwC report shows UK’s best place for women to work is still the South West, but says more must be done

March 25, 2021
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PwC report shows UK’s best place for women to work is still the South West, but says more must be done

The South West continues to be the best place in the UK for gender equality at work, according to research by accountancy group PwC. The firm’s latest annual Women in Work Index places the region in the top spot for the second year in a row. It has also extended its lead over second-ranked Scotland...

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Edge-of-city office park benefits from trend for sub-letting and ‘flight to quality’

March 25, 2021
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Edge-of-city office park benefits from trend for sub-letting and ‘flight to quality’

Global solar development company Lightsource bp is to relocate its Bath base in a move property agents say represents a shift in the way the city’s office market operates. The firm, currently based on Riverside Rd, has secured a deal to take 2,318 sq ft at Crescent Office Park, pictured, just off Rush Hill...

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Developer sets out its stall with return of popular street market to its regeneration site

March 25, 2021
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Developer sets out its stall with return of popular street market to its regeneration site

A Sunday market on the site of a major town centre regeneration scheme is to return next month – with the owners also hoping to stage a beer festival, car exhibition and summer-long outdoor cinema. The monthly Innox Market at Innox Mills, a 10-acre brownfield site in Trowbridge, will re-open on April 18, offering...

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