Bath businesses are partnering with the police, banking sector and specialists to spearhead a new crackdown on fraud in the South West. They have come together to re-launch the South West Fraud Forum (SWFF), which is dedicated to helping prevent businesses and individuals becoming victims of the crime. The organisation will be holding regular...
Bath-based customer data specialist Edit, which works with blue-chip clients such as Jaguar Land Rover, Tesco Bank and Shell, has been bought by a recently launched marketing services group for £13.35m. The deal is the first in a planned series of acquisitions by London-based Salocin to build a data-powered group focused on marketing...
Time Finance, the Bath-headquartered alternative finance provider, is to grow its invoice finance lending division after renewing a £50m funding facility with RBS Invoice Finance (RBSIF). Time Finance said securing the new three-year deal was an important next stage in its ambitious growth plans and allow it to support more firms through invoice...
Rotork, the Bath-headquartered specialist manufacturer, has warned that global supply chain disruption, which has shut some of its production lines for weeks, will choke off any growth in its post-pandemic sales. The firm, which makes specialist valves for the global oil, gas, water and chemical industries, had reported a bounce back in profits...
Bath telecoms and IT firm Grapevine is celebrating its 30th anniversary, with its founder and chairman pointing out that a third of its current staff were not even born when it launched. Grapevine began life as a chain of mobile phone shops across the South and South West, including a store on Widcombe...
A revolutionary smartphone safety app that harnesses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to recognise distress in its user’s activity has been created by a team at University of Bath. The Epowar app, trials of which started this week, monitors a wearer’s heart rate and body motion. When changes in these are detected it automatically sends an emergency...
