Future, the international media group based in Bath, has merged its two content marketing businesses to form a new global content marketing agency as it continues its major restructuring. Called Future Fusion, the new division brings together staff who previously worked in its FuturePlus and NGIN businesses, producing ‘own-brand’ content, magazines and websites for...
Organisers of Bath Boules today unveiled bold changes to the event next year to widen its appeal after revealing that this year it raised a record £18,467. Law firm Withy King, which has two offices in Bath, was also confirmed as headline sponsor for the second year running. Bath Boules takes place in the...
The senior designer at Bath-based charity Designability, which makes life-changing technology, will speak at an event in the city this week about how it converts innovative ideas into commercially-viable products that have a real impact on people’s lives. Keir Haines will be joined by Bath Innovation Centre director Simon Bond, and Dick Penny, managing director of...
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Accountancy firm Old Mill has won one of the financial planning profession’s highest accolades – the prestigious Institute of Financial Planning (IFP) David Norton award for building excellence. The award, considered by many to be the most important in the profession, is made to those firms judged as building excellence in their financial planning...
Chippenham-based specialist drug firm Vectura has received a €1.5m (£1.18m) ‘milestone’ payment after securing approval in Portugal for its innovative respiratory inhaler AirFluSal Forspiro. Vectura’s partner Sandoz, the Swiss-owned global leader in generic medicines, has been granted marketing authorisation by the Portuguese Health Authority for the new inhaler aimed at patients with asthma and/or...
Bath-based underground parking systems firm Cardok UK has strengthened its senior team with the appointment of experienced property developer and green homes pioneer Nick Sandy. Mr Sandy takes on the role of chief executive at Cardok UK, an arm of the Swiss firm behind the innovative Cardok hydraulic lift system which allows home owners...
Bath’s economy will get a boost from the £24.5bn Hinkley Point C nuclear power station approved last week by the European Commission, according to experts. The controversial plant, on the Somerset coast near Bridgwater, will be Britain’s first new nuclear reactor for nearly 20 years and could create around 25,000 jobs across the region...
Law firm Mogers Drewett has appointed Kirstie Carr to its Bath-based private client team. Kirstie, pictured, has a broad range of experience including dealing with wills, trusts, powers of attorney, court of protection work and estate administration. She also has a particular interest in tax and estate planning having spent the past two years...
Accountancy firm BDO has appointed a new lead partner for the South West as it prepares to grow its staff by a fifth and expand its regional head office. Andrea Bishop, an experienced audit partner who has been at the firm for 10 years, has taken over from Graham Randall, who has led the...
