The year at South West Business Insider closes with our always popular Top 500 list of the region’s biggest businesses. Some have suffered but many are still thriving after a rollercoaster year or two. Elsewhere, our interview this month is with Shaun Davey, who heads Bath IT services firm IPL. It’s a company that has been successful over the course of three decades, which is no mean feat for any company working in a sector that never stands still. Gloucestershire is also in the spotlight this month – our review of the county’s economy and businesses makes for interesting reading as the UK emerges (we hope) from recession.
With 2009 drawing to a close, for our last Power of Ten of the year we asked you all what was on your business wish list for 2010. The replies poured in thick and fast. Dozens of you got in touch, and with a huge variety of responses.
Job losses hit Gloucestershire hard this year, but there are signs the county’s economy and businesses are on the way back. Chloe Rigby reports.
After 30 years in business and 18 months on from a management buyout, Bath IT services business IPL wants to shake off its ‘best kept secret in software’ tag. Christian Annesley met chief executive Shaun Davey.