Simon Barbato, founder and CEO of Bath-based brand digital and marketing agency Mr B & Friends, has been named South West IoD Director of the Year. Simon, pictured, launched the agency in a bedroom 10 years ago. Today it the city’s largest firm of its kind and one of the fastest-growing in the region. ...
Bath brand consultancy The House has helped property management firm Touchstone, also based in the city, to refresh its brand by reimagining its purpose. Working closely with Touchstone’s senior leadership, The House helped redefine the company’s brand purpose as ‘turning rental units into homes’. This has energised Touchstone’s business strategy and sparked a full...
The views of employers in Bath and across the West of England are being sought on recruitment experiences, skills gaps and more to influence the area’s future skills strategy. The West of England Local Enterprise Partnership’s (LEP) Annual Employer Skills Survey, is aligned to its vision to develop a local workforce with the skills...
Staff at Bath communications agency Highlight PR are celebrating after picking up three regional industry awards – including the coveted Small Consultancy of the Year title. Highlight collected the accolades at the fourth annual PRCA DARE South West and Wales Awards in Bristol last week – the only agency to score a hat-trick on...
Confidence has soared among creative firms from Bath and across the West of England – with more expecting to make higher profits and take on more staff this year compared to 2015, according the most authoritative survey of the sector in the region. Three-quarters say they feel more assured about their business prospects than...
Bath-based brand and design agency Mytton Williams has been ranked alongside some of the world’s largest creative organisations by winning two highly coveted awards. The firm, which this year celebrates its 20th anniversary, was presented with the accolades – both for calendars produced as side projects – at the D&AD professional awards. The awards...
Midsomer Norton-based business printer Integrity Print is focusing on acquisition and diversification in the run-up to its 100th birthday later this year. As well as acquiring food packaging specialist C&P Packaging earlier this year, the company has invested £600,000 to expand its laser printing and label printing capacity and has recruited more staff to...
A campaign featuring spoof train passenger information posters has earned Bath communications firm AgencyUK one of the the highest accolades in world advertising. The campaign, created for model railway firm Hornby, featured supposedly genuine information posters on railway platforms alerting commuters to bizarre delays. These included ‘The 11.43 from Bath has been derailed by...
Bath-based branding consultancy Designbull is celebrating 10 years in business – and helping to put South West businesses, start-ups and charities on the national and international map. Andy Fuller, pictured, who started the company from his bedroom in 2006, believes the region’s business community is getting stronger and he has seen a number of...
Bath-based Highlight PR has been appointed to manage the public relations and social media for the UK launch of the award-winning children’s TV series Bottersnikes & Gumbles. The 3D animation series, made up of 52 episodes of 11 minutes each, is aimed at six to nine year olds and starts on CBBC this July....
