Kate Gorringe has been appointed as creative director of Mr B & Friends, the Bath-based brand, creative and digital agency. With more than 20 years’ experience in London-based design and advertising agencies, Kate’s clients have included Lloyds TSB, JustGiving, AXA, Principality Building Society, Siniat (formerly Lafarge Plasterboard) and Sainsbury’s and she brings a strong...
Accountancy and investment management group Smith & Williamson has launched a free tax calculator to enable businesses to work out how much tax they could be saving on their research and development (R&D) costs. The online tool has been set up in the light of research suggesting that thousands of businesses could be missing...
The Glastonbury Festival and the Bath area’s vibrant cultural scene add nearly £300m a year to the regional economy, a major new report out today shows. The study by industry body UK Music shows more than 772,000 visitors came to the South West last year specifically to attend live music events. These visitors generated...
Bath Ales’ Bounders cider has won an international award as it prepares to go on sale to thirsty music lovers at festivals this summer for the first time. Medium-dry Bounders, which is made entirely from Somerset apples, secured a bronze medal at the coveted International Cider Challenge 2015. The highly-acclaimed awards celebrate the best-tasting...
Millions of pounds have been wiped off the value of SciSys, the specialist IT firm, after it warned of a major collapse in its profits this year. In a statement to the London Stock Exchange, the Chippenham firm – which counts governments, the BBC and space agencies among its customers – blamed difficulties in...
The chief executive of Bath-based management consultancy Nine Feet Tall is among eight business leaders who have today been appointed to the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership’s board to help drive its growth ambitions. Esther McMorris is one of five new representatives who join three reappointed members on the newly formed LEP board,...
Keynsham’s recently opened Civic Centre has been named as the best corporate workplace in the South West, Thames Valley and South Wales by the British Council for Offices (BCO). The building, pictured, which replaced a number of outdated 1960s buildings in the town centre, won the award in the BCO’s regional property sector awards...
A design team led by Bath landscape architects Grant Associates has been shortlisted for a major contract in Singapore. The team is one of five in the running to develop an overall concept master plan for the city’s 24km-long Rail Corridor. Grant Associates teamed up with Dutch architects MVRDV and Singapore-based Architects 61 to bid...
Bath-based integrated marketing firm The Agency has been named as the UK’s number one independent agency for the second year running. It tops the ‘independent elite agency’ category for firms employing fewer than 25 staff in The Drum magazine’s respected annual national agency census. Its success last year was the first time an agency...
Bath-based media group Future has returned to profit after a year in the red as it hailed the success of a major transformation of the business. The publishing group, best known for its gaming, technology and creative magazines and websites, has slashed hundreds of jobs and sold off dozens of titles over the past...
