Stay informed on what's going on in business and the economy. Our blog includes regular updates, including thought leadership pieces, from the Business West team, British Chambers of Commerce and regional business leaders.
Following improvements to business conditions in the first half of 2024, key indicators stalled or declined in Q3 – with manufacturing suffering the most. Taxation is now more of a concern than...
I go to a lot of business events but few excite me like the official opening of Gloucestershire College’s new £5 million sustainable construction training centre. Yes, it’s part of the college’s...
The September Quarterly Members’ Meeting for the Business West Bristol Initiative took place last Thursday, bringing together influential voices from across the business, charity, and public sectors...
Bath Chamber of Commerce has donated £2,500 to help kit out a new Community Care Room at Bath College, which will allow students to experience realistic conditions as they study to become the much...
Here in Gloucestershire, I believe we are on the threshold of a revival in nuclear energy in the heartland of Berkeley and Oldbury, where it was developed in the 1960s. But our government needs to...
The British Chambers of Commerce is calling for the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, to use her first Budget to seize the moment to boost business and grow the UK economy.
Many businesses of all sizes were rightly concerned when they read reports that the government was proposing a new law under which workers were to be given new rights to demand a four day week. And...
News that SGS College has sold a few acres of its Berkeley site on the edge of the Severn to the Chiltern Vital Group would normally expect to feature only as a brief mention in the trade press...
Team GB’s amazing cycling team at the Paris Olympics brought home 11 medals, eight of which came from the track. What I had not known was that Renishaw, one of Business West’s most prominent members...
