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Business growth programme helps glassware designer sparkle in US

January 4, 2018
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Business growth programme helps glassware designer sparkle in US

Glassware designer Phaedra Politis is now exhibiting her colourful creations in a US art gallery after seeking free business advice from growth consultancy Cool Ventures. Phaedra, founder of Phaedra Glass, specialises in making kiln fired glassware and gifts at her art studio in Wingfield near Trowbridge and at the Owl Gallery in Frome. Her...

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Bath Business Blog: Ian Bell, executive director, Bath Chamber of Commerce & Initiative. Let’s get back to work

January 4, 2018
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Bath Business Blog: Ian Bell, executive director, Bath Chamber of Commerce & Initiative. Let’s get back to work

Do you react the same way as I do to patronising and homespun New Year messages about people’s hopes for the future? Probably the same way I usually feel about round robin festive letters – and don’t even get me started on electronic Christmas cards! So I am not going to fall into that...

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Chinese New Year banquet offers cracking opportunities for Bath firms to establish links with China

January 2, 2018
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Chinese New Year banquet offers cracking opportunities for Bath firms to establish links with China

Bath firms considering doing business in China this year – or those already trading there – are being urged to take part in the region’s largest Chinese New Year reception and banquet. Organised by the Bristol & West of England China Bureau, the event brings together business leaders, key figures from the Chinese business...

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Deal completed to get more Bath businesses connected to ultrafast broadband

December 21, 2017
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Deal completed to get more Bath businesses connected to ultrafast broadband

Thousands of businesses across Bath & North East Somerset are to be connected to an ultrafast full-fibre broadband network that promises some of the UK’s fastest speeds. The project is the result of a £10.3m investment deal signed by publicly funded body Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) with Oxfordshire-based ultrafast broadband provider Gigaclear. It...

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US pop-culture products firm snaps up Bath animators Evilcorp for $4m

December 8, 2017
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US pop-culture products firm snaps up Bath animators Evilcorp for $4m

Award-winning Bath animation and design studio A Large Evil Corporation has been taken over by major US pop-culture products firm Funko in a $4m (£2.98m) deal. A Large Evil Corporation – also known as Evilcorp – was launched in 2006 and has created animated commercials for brands such as Gu, Greenpeace, Now TV and...

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Coveted Small Business of the Year award for pioneering DNA analysis firm

December 8, 2017
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Coveted Small Business of the Year award for pioneering DNA analysis firm

Frome-based DNA Worldwide, which uses state-of-the-art technology to develop new DNA testing services, has been crowned the country’s best small business in one of the UK’s most prestigious business awards schemes. The fast-growing firm scooped the Small Business of the Year title at the British Chambers of Commerce’s annual Chamber Business Awards 2017, with...

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Bath charities told not to fear GDPR but use it as a spring cleaning exercise

December 8, 2017
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Bath charities told not to fear GDPR but use it as a spring cleaning exercise

A top lawyer has urged Bath’s not-for-profit organisations to embrace the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as an opportunity to strengthen existing relationships and improve the way they are run. Graeme Fearon, intellectual property partner at West law firm Thrings – which has an office in Bath – believes while the new rules...

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Phenomenal Women series of talks to be hosted by Gainsborough Hotel

December 7, 2017
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Phenomenal Women series of talks to be hosted by Gainsborough Hotel

A series of inspirational talks by high-profile business women is to be launched next year by The Gainsborough Bath Spa hotel in conjunction with the University of the West of England’s Bristol Business School. Called Phenomenal Women, the bi-monthly events will run from February to November with the aim of celebrating, supporting and inspiring...

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Change at the top of South West CBI as regional chair quits early

December 6, 2017
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Change at the top of South West CBI as regional chair quits early

The CBI has appointed Susan Davy, chief financial officer of environmental infrastructure group Pennon Group, as the next chair of its South West region. Susan, pictured right, will replace Andrew Livingston, CEO of Yeovil-based DIY and building equipment supplier Screwfix, who is leaving the post early.  Andrew, pictured below, took over the role for...

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Bath architects to steer design of university’s world-beating £60m automotive research centre

December 6, 2017
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Bath architects to steer design of university’s world-beating £60m automotive research centre

The University of Bath has appointed two local firms of architects to design its pioneering car-of-the-future research facility due to open in 2020.   Stride Treglown, which has an office in the city, is lead consultant on the £60m project and will design the overall building envelope, office spaces and site-wide development, pictured.  ...

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