Bath’s new Riverside Enterprise Area will give it the chance to become the world’s best small city, with an internationally-renowned creative sector attracting talented people. The ambition, unveiled to the city’s business leaders last week in a new ‘vision for Bath’, will build on its Roman and Georgian heritage to create a 21st century...
The West of England’s strength in innovation and its high quality of life is being showcased in Westminster this afternoon with a giant map being unveiled to MPs, Lords and and other key government figures. Compiled by the area’s Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), the map and accompanying policy document champions the area’s success stories...
Ahead of this Sunday’s International Women’s Day, the Association of Women in Property (WiP) is this evening hosting an event to highlight the work of Concern Universal, the charity aiming to bring opportunities to communities worldwide and help to beat poverty. The drinks and tapas reception at The Lido, Clifton, Bristol, which starts at...
Bath-based gift designer and retailer Wild & Wolf has been acquired by D C Thomson, publisher of The Beano and The Dandy, in a move that will accelerate its expansion. Wild & Wolf makes award-winning products featuring fashion brands such as Ted Baker and games and characters such as Scrabble, Mr Men and The...
Future, the Bath-based international media group, has created the new positions of sales director and commercial operations director as it continues its recovery from a tough period of trading. The firm, best known for its GamesRadar, Edge, MusicRadar, Guitarist, SFX and Total Film titles, has recruited former Clear Channel agency director Kerry Hindhaugh to...
Barclays has become the latest blue-chip company to sponsor Business Showcase South West 2015 – the region’s biggest business exhibition which returns for a second year in May. Barclays joins First Great Western and Enterprise Rent-a-car in sponsoring the event staged again at Bristol’s Colston Hall. Following last year’s successful debut as a one-day...
Mr B & Friends, the Bath creative agency, has harnessed the marketing power of YouTube to launch a new product for builders’ merchant Siniat. The brief from Siniat was to pitch the product – an innovative range of metal partition frames called Bulldog – against more traditional timber products, with a key task to...
Bath-based brand agency The House has been nominated for three major industry awards in recognition of its rebranding work for two international clients. The European Transform awards celebrate excellence in rebranding, including strategy, execution, content and evaluation. The House’s work with global sustainable packaging company Petainer has been nominated for best multi-market implementation of a brand development project and best visual identity in...
Transport operator FirstGroup has agreed a five-year IT innovation framework with IPL, the Bath-based specialist systems integrator. Under the agreement the companies will work together to identify and develop ways to improve the experience of passengers using its train companies, including First Great Western, which operates the London-West of England services through Bath. Early...
The Indian market will be demystified and the commercial opportunities outlined at a seminar for West of England firms next week. Speaking at the event in Castle Combe, near Chippenham, on Thursday March 5, will be Siddharth Mukne, business adviser at the UK India Business Council, and Waseem Hussain, internationally renowned expert on doing...
