Green/sustainable business

Grant Associates to help major West London regeneration project take shape

May 27, 2021
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Grant Associates to help major West London regeneration project take shape

Bath-based landscape architecture firm Grant Associates, which last week unveiled its design for this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, has been appointed to a major regeneration scheme also in West London. The long-anticipated waterfront Brentford Project aims to revitalise the suburb’s centre and establish a new retail, leisure and culinary scene, building on its rich...

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WHO recognition for Bath Uni research group helping expose global tobacco industry tactics

May 25, 2021
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WHO recognition for Bath Uni research group helping expose global tobacco industry tactics

A University of Bath research group that has helped alter attitudes towards the global tobacco industry and drive changes in government policies has been recognised for its work by the director-general of the World Health Organization. The Tobacco Control Research Group (TCRG) has exposed the industry’s attempts to weaken, block and delay tobacco control...

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From full fat to full fibre: Truespeed dishes up reliable broadband to Yeo Valley

May 25, 2021
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From full fat to full fibre: Truespeed dishes up reliable broadband to Yeo Valley

Britain’s largest organic dairy brand Yeo Valley is benefitting from an ultra-fast, ultra-reliable full-fibre broadband service across its multiple rural sites thanks to Bath-based broadband provider Truespeed. Family-owned Yeo Valley, best known for its range of organic yogurts, previously relied on no slow, unreliable copper (ADSL) phone lines for its broadband needs.  Now, after...

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Bath Business Blog: West of England Combined Authority. Dream big with trade to the EU and global markets

May 24, 2021
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Bath Business Blog: West of England Combined Authority. Dream big with trade to the EU and global markets

The opportunities for business growth and expansion through trade are huge. If you're thinking about trading with the EU and other markets, or want to continue trading, there are rules you need to follow for importing and exporting. It can be overwhelming, but the West of England Combined Authority’s Growth Hub is here to...

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European tech accelerator place for Bath firm pioneering use of AI to revolutionise employee wellbeing

May 21, 2021
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European tech accelerator place for Bath firm pioneering use of AI to revolutionise employee wellbeing

FlourishZone, the Bath firm aiming to revolutionise the global workplace wellbeing and coaching industry with the use of artificial intelligence (AI), has won a place on the prestigious InvestHorizon European tech accelerator. The move will support growth for the firm’s award-winning ‘deep tech’ wellbeing-at-work solution.  Funded by the European Commission in association with EUREKA, InvestHorizon is...

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Record investment for SETsquared firms as incubator shrugs off pandemic-induced market turmoil

May 21, 2021
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Record investment for SETsquared firms as incubator shrugs off pandemic-induced market turmoil

Businesses based at SETsquared, the acclaimed incubator backed by the University of Bath, raised record levels of investment last year despite the coronavirus pandemic’s huge impact on financial markets. Funding from private and public sources totalled £616m, up 40% on 2019. Private investment accounted for 90% of the total raised, with the remainder from...

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Programme launched to help retailers get their products on the shelves of US store giants

May 20, 2021
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Programme launched to help retailers get their products on the shelves of US store giants

Retail brands based in and around Bath can get help to trade in the US with store giants such as Walmart under a new programme staged by the Department for International Trade (DIT). Called The Retail Lab, it will equip up to 18 companies, via a series of educational modules, with the knowledge required...

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Creative trio urge firms to support their marathon effort to raise funds for mental health charity

May 20, 2021
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ben, jo, nathan

Three creative professionals from the Bath area have raised £1,500 in just over a week as they prepare for their first marathons to bring in essential funds for a mental health charity. Nathan Baranowski, Jo Wren and Ben Veal, who will be running the virtual London Marathon on October 3 to fundraise for the...

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Chinese approach to sustainable design inspires Grant Associates’ debut Chelsea Flower Show garden

May 20, 2021
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Chinese approach to sustainable design inspires Grant Associates’ debut Chelsea Flower Show garden

Bath-based landscape architecture firm Grant Associates has tapped into Chinese design and philosophy for its first garden at the Chelsea Flower Show. The practice, best known for producing major eye-catching architectural schemes across the globe for the past 21 years, has taken inspiration from the way China’s third-largest city Guangzhou is being landscaped for...

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University of Bath leads major research partnership to tackle global challenges in sustainability

May 19, 2021
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University of Bath leads major research partnership to tackle global challenges in sustainability

A major new collaboration between academia and industry will put the University of Bath on the map as a centre of expertise for the sustainable use of plastics and chemicals. The university is to host a new £17m centre to lead research into sustainable chemical technologies, accelerating the UK’s transition to net zero carbon...

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