One of Bath’s best-known business figures, YTL UK chief executive officer Colin Skellett, has become chair of the regional business organisation behind Bath Chamber of Commerce. Business West is one of the UK’s most influential business leadership organisations, representing more than 21,000 businesses across the South West, including through its network of chambers of...
Interaction, the Bath-based strategic workplace design and build company, has started a new fast-turnaround workspace service to help landlords let their office space more quickly and profitably. Called Primed, the programme provides quality pre-fitted workspaces and ‘rentalised’ design options to help landlords, serviced office providers and co-working operators attract high-quality tenants. Interaction has already...
The next Prime Minister and their Chancellor of the Exchequer must take immediate action to help companies cope with the impact of sky-high inflation, the region’s largest business group has said. Latest figures from the Office of National Statistics this week show inflation at a 40-year high of 9.4%. The rise, the ninth monthly...
Plans to develop a world-class creative quarter in central Bath should be extended into a more ambitious masterplan for the whole city, including improving its transport, commercial viability and sustainability. The argument, put forward by Bath Preservation Trust – the charity set up in 1934 to safeguard the city’s unique historic setting – follows...
Bath firms are to get the opportunity to have their say the city’s future as a vibrant and innovative hub for business at a major event later this year. The Bath Business Conference, which is being staged by the Bath Business Improvement District (BID) on 20 September, is designed to bring businesses together to...
Wincanton, the national logistics group, is on the road to deliver more double-digit revenue growth, partly driven by the huge rise in online shopping over the past year. The Chippenham-headquartered group’s chair told the London Stock Exchange-listed group’s AGM that it had made good operational and strategic progress over the past three months. As a result,...
Bath Unlimited, the organisation helping promote the city’s sustainable growth and future success, has hosted its first Young Professionals Network meeting. Called Unlimited Potential, the networking group aims to bring together under-35s based in Bath who are contributing to its development as a centre for innovation – or intend to in the future. The...
A luxury hotel in a highly sensitive landscape setting on Bath’s outskirts has secured planning consent for an expansion. The proposals for Homewood Hotel and Spa at Freshford, drawn up by Bath-based Aaron Evans Architects, include six new luxury guest suites each with their own private terraces and a small meeting and events space....
South West chartered accountancy firm Milsted Langdon has taken a major step towards its ambition of becoming a fully sustainable and innovative business by completing a refurbishment of one of its offices. The transformation of the firm’s Taunton base, its largest, includes a reshaping of the office space to create a more modern work...
Ecommerce fulfilment company Huboo has officially opened its largest UK warehouse so far in a move that has more than doubled its workforce to almost 700. The Bath-founded firm, which increased its revenue by 124% in the year to January, is occupying the new 106,000 sq ft building close to junction 17 of the...
