Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on our weekly e-bulletin. This week Jake Xu, of Bath-based Ready – the Creative Campaign Agency, answers our 10 questions What was the LAST: Film you watched? The Wolf of Wall Street Book you read? Boringly it’s...
Bath brand agency The House has been appointed by Dorothy House Hospice Care to help it tell its story and attract renewed support from local businesses and individuals. Dorothy House, which marks its 40th birthday this year, offers support and care for patients and families in a 700 square mile area around Bath and...
Mathew March-Smith, the Bath-based serial entrepreneur, has called in city-based integrated marketing firm AgencyUK to launch his latest venture, Pestle Herbs. Mathew has a string of successes under his belt including several leading London digital agencies as well as Pong Cheese, the Peasedown St John-based firm that celebrates independent and artisan UK cheese producers...
Applications for the coveted South West Fairtrade Business Awards close this weekend and Bath firms that support fair and ethical business practices are being urged to enter before Sunday’s deadline. The unique awards – now in their fourth year – champion firms that put ethical responsibilities at the heart of their business. Bath businesses...
Future, the Bath-based specialist media group, has made two new senior appointments in its recently created magazine division. Future said the new division will bring a deeper focus to its magazines, developing the current market leading brands and providing a platform for further print innovation. Matt Pierce becomes editorial director of Future's design, games...
The Crafts Council, the UK development agency for contemporary crafts, has appointed Andy Marshall, the former head of marketing at Bath-based Future Publishing, as a trustee. Andy, pictured, has more than 30 years’ experience in media and publishing. He becomes one of 11 trustees at the council at a time when crafts are becoming...
Bath-based media group Future’s market-leading GamesMaster magazine has celebrated its 300th issue with an analysis of gaming past, present and yet to come. The title first hit the newsstands in January 1993 by the then Future Publishing to complement a Channel 4 TV show of the same name. At the time gamers played on...
Bath looks set to get its long-awaited innovation and digital campus under ambitious new plans now being drawn up for the city’s Quays South area. International design, engineering and risk management consultancy BMT Group said it is preparing a detailed planning application for the derelict Grade II listed Newark Works building on Lower Bristol...
Business in the Community (BITC) is calling on Bath firms to showcase how they are taking practical action to address pressing issues as the deadline for entries to the 2016 Responsible Business Awards looms. The awards, now in their 19th year, celebrate inspiring examples of businesses that make a difference by creating stronger communities,...
Bath Spa University has teamed up with an online education company run by Oscar-winning British film producer Lord Puttnam to launch an innovative series of seminars on creativity in film for students. The seminars, titled The Philosophy of Film, are also being supported Pinewood Studios – home to the James Bond, Star Wars and...
