Bath-based media group Future has snapped up the company behind Australia’s largest shopping comparison website as it expands its e-commerce operations. Next Commerce launched getprice.com.au in 2005. It now has more than 1,200 retailers using the site, selling 2.8m-plus products. The firm also started pricepanda.com in Singapore in 2012. It now has sites in...
No other news service in the Bath area can compete with Bath Business News for authoritative, independent online business news and information. Here are 9 reasons why Bath Business News is essential reading for anyone serious about business. 1) We have a strong track record of quality journalism and news coverage dating back more than 30 years. Our award-winning editor Robert Buckland...
Bath-based independent publishing firm Crimson is to publish the iconic Time Out Guides across the world after securing a deal with Time Out Group. Under the agreement, Crimson will also distribute all new Time Out Guides and the previously produced range of books, which total more than 50 titles. Time Out Guides give invaluable...
The £1bn devolution deal and the West of England combined authority formed by it would increase control and resources for business including: Integrated and locally relevant inward investment and trade services, led by Invest in Bristol & Bath Support for developing the West of England Growth Hub Increased support for the Bristol & Bath...
Bath area businesses are being urged to give their views on the West of England devolution proposal, which would bring extra powers to the area along with additional funding worth up to £1bn. Business organisations in the region, including the Institute of Directors (IoD), CBI, FSB and Business West have come together to encourage...
The growing popularity of Bath Ales’ flagship Gem bitter has helped the brewery achieve its best ever year for grocery sales. Its supermarket sales grew by 14% last year to £3.5m as demand for craft beer continued to spiral. The increase put Bath Ales in third position in a table of the top 20...
The Institute of Directors South West regional chairman Nick Sturge has been appointed to the organisation’s national council as it seeks to ensure that a range of voices from across business are heard as Brexit unfolds. Nick Sturge, pictured, the co-founder and director of Bristol’s Engine Shed innovation hub, is one of a number of...
Bath and the West of England are being promoted as a financial services hotspot capable of attracting major international investment while also playing a lead role in the UK’s emerging financial technology (fintech) industry. The area is being showcased as one of nine UK ‘financial centres of excellence’ by the Government as it looks...
Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons is to become the first chancellor of Bath Spa University. The chancellor is a ceremonial figurehead and the Brideshead Revisited and Reversal of Fortune star will play an important ambassadorial role for the university. An investiture ceremony will take place in the autumn when Jeremy Irons, pictured, will formally be installed as Chancellor. Bath...
A beautiful rural setting, dogs in the offices and weekly Google-style lunches have earned content marketing agency M2 Bespoke the title of Baths Happiest Workplace. The prestigious award was handed to the Limpley Stoke-based firm, at a special ceremony in Chippenham on Wednesday. Judges in the contest – staged by Bristol-based workplace and interior...
