Bath firms that go the extra mile to ensure their staff are cheerful and fulfilled are being invited to enter the annual South West Happiest Workplace Competition. The brainchild of workplace and interior design consultancy Wylde IA, the contest has successfully championed enlightened businesses since it was launched four years ago. This year it...
Two Bath directors will go head to head with some of the South West’s top bosses next week in one of the region’s most prestigious business award schemes. Former Google industry head Jenny Cowderoy and Joanna Chavasse, the founder of childcare business Freckles, are among the finalists in this year’s South West Director of the...
Bath-based multi-service marketing agency Edit has won the media buying account for The Salvation Army following a three-month tender process in competition with three other agencies. Campaign activity will go live in October for The Salvation Army’s annual Christmas appeal, which each year gives presents to many thousands of underprivileged children. Edit, part of...
Hundreds of businesses are backing this year’s biggest-ever Bath Boules Week – and with less than a month to go organisers are preparing for an event like no other. Dozens of Bath charities will benefit from the much-loved and massively popular event in Queen Square, which this year runs from June 10-18. On the...
Another Bath creative firm has relocated to Bristol due to a lack of suitable space in the city. Customer relationship marketing agency Armadillo CRM, which works with brands such as McDonald’s, hotels.com and Disney, has made the move after 25 years in Bath. The agency, whose 30-strong team was based in Alfred Street, has...
A pie factory built in a disused quarry near Wells has been named Building of the Year in the region’s top architectural awards. The 85,000 sq ft factory, pictured above, at Dulcote for independent food brand Charlie Bigham’s gained the coveted title at the Royal Institute of British Architecture (RIBA) South West Awards....
Bath-based film and theatre director Malachi Bogdanov has launched an online gallery to make great art accessible to all – with help from business growth consultancy Cool Ventures. Malachi, a former associate director of the English Shakespeare Company, set up The Apple Gallery to represent up-and-coming artists, as well as more established painters. The...
The managing director of the West of England’s largest business group this week joined more than 50 other chamber of commerce leaders to urge the Prime Minister to take radical action and ‘fix the fundamentals’ of the UK economy. Phil Smith from Business West – the organisation behind Bath Chamber of Commerce – was...
A programme to enable some of the UK’s best tech scale-up companies become the sector giants of tomorrow has been launched by the University of Bath. The programme, part of a national project, is supported by £5m of government money through Research England’s Connecting Capability Fund. It will enable 240 of the most innovative...
Businesses in the Bath area are to be helped prepare for the challenges and opportunities that Brexit will bring when an Export for Growth roadshow tours the region later this month. The day-long Trade Horizons events are to be staged by Business West – the region’s largest business advice group, which also runs...
