Two thirds of small and medium-sized firms in the South West took steps to make their businesses greener last year with roughly the same percentage saying they want to improve their environmental sustainability in 2020. Some 43% believe becoming more environmentally sustainable is important to them while just over a fifth (22%) claim doing...
International influences on local issues along with global collaborations and ideas are to influence the themes for the third annual TEDxBath event in October. Following the success of the previous two events, organisers of TEDxBath 2020 have promised it will be a bigger, more inclusive and more diverse with a truly international agenda in...
Lloyds Banking Group has appointed long-standing director Jeremy Hayward as its ambassador for the South West to help support social and economic prosperity across the region. Jeremy, pictured, will take the lead on delivering the group’s Helping Britain Prosper plan in the region. The plan, launched in 2014, sets public targets in areas such...
Chris Anderson, the founder of Bath-based media group Future and curator of the global TED conferences, has used a visit to the city to launch an ambitious worldwide climate emergency project. Chris, pictured, was joined at the launch of Countdown by Bath-based UN climate change adviser Tom Rivett-Carnac. It sets an ambition and a...
Bath-based landscape architect Grant Associates has rebranded with a new website which aims to express the creative, collaborative and pioneering approach of the award-winning practice. The firm also said the new look – which was designed entirely by Bath creative agencies – reflects its renewed mission to respond to the climate and biodiversity emergency...
The UK’s largest independent cheese producer Wyke Farms has promoted Diane Cox to the role of group technical director responsible for all business quality and technical functions. Diane, pictured, one of the UK’s few female cheese graders, joined the Bruton-based business in 2005. With the dairy industry still male dominated, she is one of...
More than 100 students from University of Bath School of Management have teamed up with city-based specialist engineering firm Rotork to help local charities and not-for-profit organisations. Under the Rotork Community Challenge, 14 local charities have set tasks which the student teams need to complete by early next month. The results of each project...
Quartet Community Foundation, the organisation that inspires local philanthropy to give everyone in the West of England a fair chance of a good life, is celebrating handing out £50m in grants since it was founded in 1987. Thirty-two years ago the Foundation awarded £16,585 to 19 projects, including ACTA, which received a grant for...
The tough UK retail market has again pushed Somerset-based luxury fashion brand Mulberry, best known for its designer bags, into the red. But the firm, which has its global headquarters and a factory at Chilcompton, said it expects to be profitable again next year as ongoing investment in its international operations pay off. Mulberry...
The value of tourism to Bath and North East Somerset’s economy has increased to almost half a billion pounds over the past two years, according to new figures. But while efforts to attract more staying visitors – rather than day trippers – appear to be paying off, one in four tourists to the area...
