Business printer Integrity Print has acquired a small label printing company that works with toy makers Lego and Hasbro UK. Cardiff-based Alliance Labels now becomes a trading division of Integrity Print, which employs more than 300 people and operates more than 50 presses on its 16-acre site on Midsomer Norton’s Westfield Trading Estate. The...
Hectic acquisition activity at Future, the Bath-based international media group, has paid off, its chief executive has said as she unveiled a big leap in annual operating profits. Zillah Byng-Thorne, pictured, hailed the group’s success in creating a leading global specialist media platform after a major restructuring over recent years during which it also...
SCISYS, the specialist IT group, is to acquire German media software firm Annova Systems for up to €27.83m (£23.8m) in a move that will give a strong international boost to its own media & broadcast division. Chippenham-based SCISYS said the acquisition, which it is funding mainly from a new bank loan, was expected to be...
Regional accountants Bishop Fleming, which has an office in Bath, said Philip Hammond’s first Autumn Statement was a clarion call to industry to be more productive and to make the UK ‘match fit’ for a bumpy Brexit ride ahead. It said the Chancellor’s first fiscal statement promised billions of government money for houses, roads,...
Bath businesses will welcome Chancellor Philip Hammond’s focus on investment in the Autumn Statement, particularly in areas where growth pressures are highest, according to Business West, the organisation that runs Bath Chamber of Commerce. Phil Smith, pictured, managing director of the region’s largest business organisation, described the statement as “a sombre, not flashy, affair”...
Business organisation the CBI “warmly welcomed” Chancellor Philip Hammond’s commitments to boost research and development, housing and infrastructure. But it said these must be acted on. Director-general Carolyn Fairbairn, pictured below, said: “The Chancellor has prioritised a pragmatic down payment on future productivity growth. “His emphasis on R&D, housing and local infrastructure will help...
Chancellor Philip Hammond his presented his first Autumn Statement: Here are the main points, as announced: Office for Budget Responsibility says growth this year will be 2.1%, 1.4% next year (down from 2.2%), 1.7% in 2018 (down from 2.1%), 2.1% in 2019/20 (down from 2.1%) and 2% in 2020/21, (down from 2.1%). As expected, the...
The search has started for a new chief executive to lead Bath Festivals as the arts organisation enters a period of major change, including launching a new multi-arts festival. The successful individual must be able to lead it through that transformation, engaging wider audiences – locally, nationally and internationally – and redefining what great...
Bath is to stage a new multi-arts festival next May as it looks to position itself alongside Edinburgh and Cheltenham as a major UK centre for the arts. Under the ambitious plan the city’s existing music and literature festivals will be merged with the new 10-day-long event also aiming to shake off Bath’s ‘elitist’...
It has a reputation as a sleepy town full of pensioners spending their twilight years sitting in deckchairs, but Eastbourne is about to shake off that image thanks to a new brand strategy and identity created for it by Bath creative agency Mr B & Friends. The firm jumped at the chance to create...
