Five Bath area firms are today celebrating winning the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, the UK’s most prestigious business accolade. The five very different businesses – Rocketmakers, Wessex Water Services, Wolf and Wild, Bath Ales (through its owner St Austell’s Brewery) and Coombe Castle International – are among 230 companies from across the UK to...
The ‘golden triangle’ of business, government and universities must work together better to drive economic growth across the West of England, a major conference at the University of Bath will be told this week. The event on Wednesday will explore how the three-way collaboration could contribute to the ‘powerhouse’ agenda and support the...
Armadillo CRM, the Bath-based customer relationship marketing agency, has appointed Steve Jefferys as client services director – the first job it has created since its management buy-out in February. Steve, pictured, worked for 13 years in London agencies, including CHI & Partners, Kitcatt Nohr, Proximity London and TMW, before moving to the South West. ...
The Festival of Female Entrepreneurs returns to the West of England for a seventh year in October with one of Britain’s most successful entrepreneurs already lined up as headline speaker. Emma Bridgewater, who has spent more than 30 years building up a successful pottery business, will share her experiences and give advice to businesswomen...
Students from Bath Spa University will be among the first to use the new Bristol VR (virtual reality) Lab to give their studies a world-beating boost. The university has teamed up with the Lab, which officially opened last week, to give Creative Computing students the opportunity to enhance their skills in ambient and factual...
A £6.5m project that will harness the power of innovative digital technology to boost the West of England’s creative, health and manufacturing sectors is to be launched by a consortium of universities, including Bath Spa, and arts venues. The new Creative Technology Network will pool research and innovation expertise from the universities and industrial...
One of the most inspirational women in technology is to give the second in a series of talks by high-profile business women in Bath later this week. Carole Mundell, head of physics at the University of Bath, will speak at The Gainsborough Bath Spa Hotel’s Phenomenal Women event on Thursday, part of a series...
Innovative Bluetooth technology developed by Bath firm Blispa will make this summer’s Minerva’s Owls public sculpture trail in the city the UK’s first fully interactive attraction of its kind. Beacons from the firm will allow visitors to interact with the super-sized owl sculptures that will perch around Bath and surrounding towns between June...
Bath-based web and graphic designer Craig Gill has swapped his Mac for trainers as he prepares to run next Sunday’s London Marathon for the first time. Craig, pictured, who works at Bath PR agency Creatrix, is taking on the challenge in memory of his grandmother Audrey, who died earlier this year from cancer....
Bath-based machine learning software company The Filter, co-founded by musician and entrepreneur Peter Gabriel more than a decade ago, took on more new clients in March than in any other month in its history. The success in winning the eight clients comes shortly after the firm, based in The Guild innovation hub, entered the...
