Six firms from in and around Bath have been named by the London Stock Exchange as some of the UK’s fastest-growing and most dynamic small and medium-sized businesses. The six, which operate in sectors ranging from green energy to publishing and financial services to pharmaceuticals, appear in the London Stock Exchange Group’s 1000 Companies...
Bath-based business mentor, entrepreneur and events industry leader Franco de la Croix-Vaubois has been named as one Britain’s top 50 business advisers in an awards scheme highlighting their behind-the-scenes work. Franco, pictured, who runs the Event Organisers Network, was selected by small business network Enterprise Nation from hundreds of advisers from around the UK...
Four historic pubs near Bath are in line to change hands in a deal between fast-growing craft brewery and pub chain Butcombe and Wiltshire-based rival Wadworth. The groups have exchanged contracts for Butcombe, based near Bristol, to acquire a group of 21 pubs, extending its portfolio across the South of England and into the West...
Bath firms trading in Europe have been told that it is ‘almost too late’ if they have not planned for a worst case scenario following the end of the Brexit transition on January 1. The 50-day countdown to that date was on Wednesday and Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, fears many firms...
The Covid pandemic has reduced levels of economic activity across the UK this year. Households and businesses have generally been spending and investing less than they were before the pandemic struck. This fall in spending and investment risks significant job losses as many businesses face much lower demand for their goods and services. Although...
Bristol Airport has been given a major boost by Jet2, the UK’s third largest airline, which from next year will make the airport its 10th base and launch flights to 33 destinations. Jet2, which does not currently operate from Bristol, will also create more than 200 jobs at the airport in roles ranging from flight and...
Just as we were entering the second national lockdown, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a five-month extension to the current Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and increased the level of the next self-employed income support grant, writes Pearson May partner Matthew Rutter. The Chancellor told the House of Commons that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) will...
Media planning and buying agency Mostly Media has been appointed by greeting card marketplace thortful.com to manage its offline media planning and buying. Thortful supports a community of designers, illustrators and photographers who create unique cards, most of which cannot be found anywhere else. Its head of offline advertising Alexandra Tooher described Mostly Media,...
Destination marketing organisation Visit Bath has vowed to try to stage some of its planned pre-Christmas programme once the city emerges from the second national lockdown in early December. The rising tide of Covid-19 cases across the country – including in Bath, where it has now become higher than the national average for the...
Developers behind the UK’s first ‘urban later living community’ planned for Bath are future proofing the scheme in the light of the coronavirus crisis. Guild Living said changes to the development – which it wants to build on the former Homebase site off Pines Way – will help combat the spread of infectious diseases,...
