Ahead of the Agenda: The Week Ahead

May 23, 2021
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Monday May 24 Finals: Kainos Group, Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings Tuesday May 25 Finals: Aveva Group, Big Yellow, Calnex Solutions, Electrocomponents, Helical Bar, Hurricane Energy, Speedy Hire, Warehouse REIT Interims: Avon Rubber, Greencore, Ixico, Shaftesbury Economic announcement: Public sector net borrowing Wednesday May 26 Finals: Asa International Group, Biffa, De La Rue, Marks & Spencer, Mediclinic International, SSE...

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Agile staff and string of acquisitions help Future overcome Covid and send profits soaring

May 21, 2021
Agile staff and string of acquisitions help Future overcome Covid and send profits soaring

The chief executive of Future, the fast-growing Bath specialist media group, has praised the agility of its staff after it defied the publishing sector’s gloom to post an 110% increase in half-year pre-tax profits. The highly diversified and acquisitive group, whose titles span TechRadar, PC Gamer and Country Life, achieved the £56.9m profits on sales up 89%...

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European tech accelerator place for Bath firm pioneering use of AI to revolutionise employee wellbeing

May 21, 2021
European tech accelerator place for Bath firm pioneering use of AI to revolutionise employee wellbeing

FlourishZone, the Bath firm aiming to revolutionise the global workplace wellbeing and coaching industry with the use of artificial intelligence (AI), has won a place on the prestigious InvestHorizon European tech accelerator. The move will support growth for the firm’s award-winning ‘deep tech’ wellbeing-at-work solution.  Funded by the European Commission in association with EUREKA, InvestHorizon is...

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Record investment for SETsquared firms as incubator shrugs off pandemic-induced market turmoil

May 21, 2021
Record investment for SETsquared firms as incubator shrugs off pandemic-induced market turmoil

Businesses based at SETsquared, the acclaimed incubator backed by the University of Bath, raised record levels of investment last year despite the coronavirus pandemic’s huge impact on financial markets. Funding from private and public sources totalled £616m, up 40% on 2019. Private investment accounted for 90% of the total raised, with the remainder from...

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The Bottom Line: Businesswoman turns gut feeling on colonic irrigation into a book

May 20, 2021
The Bottom Line: Businesswoman turns gut feeling on colonic irrigation into a book

A businesswoman whose clinic specialises in helping people achieve and maintain gut health has published a book packed with advice on doing just that. Let That Sh*t Go! draws on Katherine Brooke-MacKenzie’s 16 years’ experience in helping people at the business end of gut health, through her colonic irrigation practice.  She wants to, in her...

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Housing developers continue to grow with two new site acquisitions

May 20, 2021
Housing developers continue to grow with two new site acquisitions

Residential property developers Tanda Homes and Mendip Developments have made two further site acquisitions as they continue to grow. The sites are the sixth and seventh acquired by the Frome-based group since 2016 and follow on from its successful developments in Westbury, Ashcott near Street, Frome and Sherborne.  Bristol and London law firm Temple...

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