Bath tourist chiefs are to receive funding from national tourism agency VisitEngland to help promote the city as an ideal place for staycations this spring and summer. With traditional foreign holidays likely to shunned by many people this year to due Covid restrictions, VisitEngland is heavily marketing a range of UK destinations under the...
Retail brands based in and around Bath can get help to trade in the US with store giants such as Walmart under a new programme staged by the Department for International Trade (DIT). Called The Retail Lab, it will equip up to 18 companies, via a series of educational modules, with the knowledge required...
Accountancy firm Purple Lime has worked with the shareholders of market-disrupting specialist software firm Terrafirma on its acquisition by an international sector leader. Terrafirma, whose proprietary workflow software and data insights have been critical at transforming how decisions are made in property transactions in the UK, was acquired by Dye & Durham Corporation, a...
Three creative professionals from the Bath area have raised £1,500 in just over a week as they prepare for their first marathons to bring in essential funds for a mental health charity. Nathan Baranowski, Jo Wren and Ben Veal, who will be running the virtual London Marathon on October 3 to fundraise for the...
Bath-based landscape architecture firm Grant Associates has tapped into Chinese design and philosophy for its first garden at the Chelsea Flower Show. The practice, best known for producing major eye-catching architectural schemes across the globe for the past 21 years, has taken inspiration from the way China’s third-largest city Guangzhou is being landscaped for...
A major new collaboration between academia and industry will put the University of Bath on the map as a centre of expertise for the sustainable use of plastics and chemicals. The university is to host a new £17m centre to lead research into sustainable chemical technologies, accelerating the UK’s transition to net zero carbon...
