Friska, the café group started by two University of Bath graduates, has been named Regional Growth Business of the Year in the Food and Drink Federation Awards. The win comes hot on the heels of a successful fund-raising round in the summer when Friska raised £3m from Yorkshire Fund Managers (YFM). It also...
Logistics group Wincanton today announced the sudden death of its chairman Steve Marshall. Mr Marshall, pictured, had been non-executive chairman of Chippenham-headquartered Wincanton since December 2011. In a message to the London Stock Exchange this morning the group said he had “brought a wealth of the most senior business experience and wisdom to the...
Business West, the organisation that runs Bath Chamber of Commerce, has been named as the world’s best chamber for an export development programme that has helped create thousands of jobs. The organisation, which runs chambers of commerce across the South West, was one of five similar groups from across the globe to win...
Businesses that fail to monitor their outsourced recruitment could find themselves inadvertently employing victims of modern slavery, according to new research led by the University of Bath’s School of Management. Interviews with businesses, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), trade unions, law firms and the police found that while companies can increasingly trace where their products come...
Bath-based specialist engineering consultancy BMT Asset Performance has secured a four-year contract with the Ministry of Defence to support the UK’s air defence and ground-based electronic warfare systems. Under the contract, BMT will collect and analyse support data from radars in the UK and globally and advise the Air Defence & Electronic Warfare Systems...
Bath’s five-star Gainsborough hotel has won the UK hospitality industry’s top award while its restaurant has been confirmed as among the best in England. The £35m, 99-room hotel – which opened two years ago – was named Hotel of the Year (England) at the 2017 AA Hospitality Awards, staged earlier this week at...
