What’s our mission?
To promote Bath as a destination for investment, business and talent by celebrating the success and innovation of its companies.
Bath is a World Heritage city with an exceptional business community. You may be surprised to discover that Bath and North East Somerset is home to some remarkable businesses – many of them global leaders in their field.
What brings them together? We think it's their unlimited imagination, ambition to grow and commitment to developing talent for the future. Discover the companies, sectors and stories that make Bath such an inspiring place to do business.
WHAT’S ON
Join us at an event
MARKETEERS OF BATH
Wednesday, 23 September 2026
5.30 PM to 7.30 PM
Reaching the Consumer of the Future
Bath Cricket Club
Alice Macleod (Tribe Associates) and Shane Carnell-Xu (Shakeup Cosmetics) explore the forces reshaping the ways brands need to engage with the customer of the future.
BUSINESS ETHICS
Thursday, 1 October 2026
5.30 PM to 8.30 PM
Doing the Right Thing when the Answer isn't Obvious
Bath Cricket Club
Expect an engaging and highly practical conversation about trust purpose with Pablo Hepworth Lloyd OBE, FT Guide to Business Ethics.
HR COMMUNITY FORUM
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
8.00 AM to 10.00 AM
What CEOs really want
from HR
RWK Goodman
What does “strategic HR” really mean to CEOs? Join us to unpack expectations, influence, and how HR can drive direction in fast‑changing times.
PAST EVENTS FROM BATH UNLIMITED
30 June 2026
Mastering MESSY Leadership
24 June 2026
Same Workplace, Different Generations: Now What?
26 March 2026
Building AI Confidence and Capability for HR People/Professionals
4 March 2026
Beyond the certification: Is B Corp the only way to do good?
Just a few examples of Bath companies working across the world…
Uncovering the region's most innovative organisations
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
Lovehoney
The UK’s leading sexual wellness brand.
Rotork
Global provider of mission critical control and instrumentation to major industry and utilities.
Forceteck
Physics-driven performance. Empowering athletes, coaches, and teams with trusted objective moment data.
BMT
Delivering global engineering solutions for industry and defence.
Grant Associates
Creators of 50 metre high supertrees in Gardens of the Bay, Singapore.
Wealthtime
Next generation adviser platform with £128 billion under administration.
“Every time our overseas customers visit Bath and enjoy the unique characteristics the city offers they comment on the ‘wow’ factor and that just helps us that little bit more.”
Zynstra
Most progressive UK city 2020
According to a new study, Bath is now the UK's most progressive city, followed by neighbouring Bristol. The study by Bankrate takes into account seven different factors that point to locals having a forward-looking mindset: a city's search trends, gender pay gap, recycling rates, voter turnout, number of vegan and vegetarian restaurants, number of ultra-low emission vehicles, and number of women in local government.
World’s Top 20 Best Small City
In Monocle’s Small Cities Index, focusing on settlements of fewer than 250,000 around the world, Bath has come in at No.17 – and the only UK city in the list. As well as looking for those cities that offer an incredible quality of life and are led by smart, trustworthy leaders, other key factors included great business opportunities, green ambitions and being warm and welcoming.
Some of our stories
High-profile design, engineering and architecture.
Innovation, creativity and collaboration delivering high-profile and pioneering projects, winning many awards along the way.
Ships and military equipment for around the world.
World-class companies, based in Bath and the surrounding area, exporting their products and services around the world.
Software companies growing and selling for £100m+.
With two leading universities, Innovation Centres and modern work spaces and a thriving community leading to a hub for entrepreneurs and start-ups.
Bath Unlimited firms…
£2.3bn
Have a tunover of over £2.3 Billion per year
7,000
Employ over 7,000 people
48%
48% of the Bath population educated to at least degree level or equivalent (compared to 40% of Great Britain).
