Gloucestershire tech business in £2bn deal talks

When it featured in a recent list of fast-growing UK tech firms the spotlight revealed not just the scale of a little-known Tewkesbury business, but news it could be the subject of a £2blln deal.

Dear readers,

We had hoped to start 2026 with word of the campaign below already being driven hard by a brilliant Gloucestershire charity, but we come to it late. Nevertheless, hopefully we can help put some wind in the sails of its work. Or rather, all of us can - and rid ourselves of some clutter as we go!

You’ll also find our piece on a quite incredible gym that’s been opened in Gloucester, one part of a major investment in the county by a fast-growing multi-million pound American-headquartered home gym business. Only Gloucester Rugby team’s personal gym possibly tops this one.

It explains why it chose Gloucestershire as its UK base when it could have chosen anywhere.

There are some diary dates and a couple of business news shorts too And then we’re onto the main story - about a fast-growing Gloucestershire business born and bred.

What particularly caught our eye was not the news that it already has funding support equivalent to £1.04 billion, but that it’s apparently been in takeover …