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...
Bath brand agency The House is to support the South American expansion of the world’s fastest-growing manufacturer of precision dental drill bits. The House will work with Gloucester-based Prima Dental to produce Brazilian-Portuguese language marketing material, including a new website, market-specific materials for distributors, e-learning modules for travelling sales reps and promotional information for...
Bath-based social entrepreneur and former Big Issue boss Jeff Mitchell is publishing a book to show how long-term unemployed people can successfully find work. Jeff was managing director for The Big Issue nationally and in the South West from 1999-2007 before founding Clean Slate Training & Employment. For 10 years Bath-based Clean Slate...
The latest fall in unemployment – down a further 7,000 in the South West – has been welcomed by Business West, the organisation behind Bath Chamber of Commerce. But Business West, the region’s largest business group, has warned that low unemployment brings its own challenges – particularly skills shortages and rising wage costs –...
Business Showcase South West, the region’s largest free business event, returns for a third year in May following its huge success in 2014 and 2015. After two years at Bristol’s Colston Hall, this year’s Business Showcase (BSSW) will take place at the newly redeveloped Ashton Gate Stadium in South Bristol on May 17. A...
Bath-based specialist creative campaign agency Xcetra Media has rebranded as Ready ahead of a five-year programme of planned growth under which it aims to more than triple in size. Ready, which specialises in subscription and membership marketing, was founded by brothers Jake Xu and Shane Carnell-Xu in 2007 and boasts a list of major...
