The CEO of regional airline Flybe is to be headline speaker at the IoD South West Director of the Year Awards next month. Christine Ourmières-Widener, pictured, who took up the role at the Devon-based carrier in January last year, will share her experiences in an interview with the event’s host, BBC Radio Devon’s Janet Kipling. The...
Nominations have opened for the SPARKies, the awards that showcase the best of the West of England’s tech sector. Now in their sixth year, the awards shine a light on the firms and individuals operating in areas as diverse as apps, touchless technology and healthcare. Two new categories – Best Scale-Up and Most Innovative...
The worlds of culture and football will come together next weekend as The Bath Festival joins forces for the first time with Bath City Football Club to kick off a day of activities and celebrity appearances. One of a number of special collaborations in this year’s ambitious Festival programme, the event on Saturday May...
Bath-based gift design firm Wild & Wolf has landed a prestigious national award for its 2017 Orla Kiely stationery collection. The collection beat off strong challenges from the likes of Kellogg’s, Nintendo & Discovery Science ranges to top the Best Brand Licensed Gifting Range category in the Brand & Lifestyle Licensing Awards. Better...
Ambitious Bath businesses with at least two years of sustained growth are being invited to apply for grants of £5,000 to accelerate their expansion. Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, has £500,000 worth of funding available to aspiring scale-up businesses through its new High Impact Scale-Up Coaching Grants programme. Building on the success...
Skills and opportunities for up to 3,000 adults across Bath and the West of England are to be boosted under a new project. Future Bright is a £4m scheme being run by the West of England Combined Authority (WECA), working with Bath & North East Somerset, Bristol and South Gloucestershire councils. West of...
Future, the highly acquisitive Bath-based media group, has completed its takeover of four specialist consumer titles from rival Haymarket – but has decided not to buy its gadget review magazine Stuff. Future said the move followed initial discussions with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). As a result, the £14m cost of the...
VisitBath, the city’s destination marketing body, has gone against tourist industry norms by using a local agency to design its new website. The organisation brought in small independent Bath agency Touchpoint Design to build the site, pictured below, rather than, as previously, use a large national outfit. Touchpoint, which collaborated with VisitBath last year...
Aspiring Bath entrepreneurs can gain free business advice to help them make their dreams of running their own business a reality at an event next week. The Starting in Business Workshop on May 9 at the Bath and County Club is being organised by the business growth consultancy Cool Ventures. It is one of...
The innovative Bloodhound project to build the world’s fastest-ever car is inspiring young people to pursue careers that use maths, engineering and technology, the region’s business leaders have been told. Nearly 400 chartered accountants and guests from across the business community gathered at the annual ICAEW West of England annual dinner last week heard...
