With businesses becoming increasingly reliant on the successful use of social media to grow, Barclays is staging an event next week highlighting some of its more effective tools. Called Leading in the Digital Age – the use of Intelligent Social Media, the event at UWE’s Frenchay Campus near Bristol on Wednesday evening will hear...
Keynsham’s striking new civic centre and the innovative Lee Centre at Bath’s Ralph Allen School have been named among the region’s best new buildings by RICS (the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors). They appear on the shortlist for the annual RICS South West Awards, putting them head to head with major new schemes such...
Bath firms are greeting positive economic news, such as the latest fall in unemployment, with “faint alarm bells rather than celebratory cheers”, according to the region’s largest business organisation. Business West, which runs Bath Chamber of Commerce, said politicians should now focus on the “significant hurdles” that remained to achieving a lasting recovery. Today’s...
Bath-based housing and support organisation Curo has been named as the most digitally engaged housing association in the West of England. Curo, which manages 12,000 homes, was the highest climber on the annual Connected Housing index, rising 60 places to rank 13th in the whole of the UK and first in the region. The...
Firms in the Bristol area are being urged to enter one of the region’s top award schemes showcasing excellence and enterprise in business. The prestigious Institute of Directors’ South West Director of the Year Awards 2015 seek to recognise outstanding business people and focus UK-wide attention on success in the region. Award nominations are...
Four students from Bath Spa University have triumphed in the Royal Television Society West of England awards. BA Creative Media Practice (CMP) graduates Luke Taylor, Gabby Hawes and Geoffrey Clinch along with BA (Hons) Film and Screen Studies graduate Rosie Jones were among the award winners at the presentation evening staged on Monday at...
The Bristol & Bath area has been named as the UK’s most important centre for the fast-growing digital industry outside of London. A major new report – called Powering a Digital Economy 2015 – says the area is home to a globally-significant cluster of innovative businesses and a hotbed for future technologies. Businesses are...
Click on the image to see why Tech City UK ranks the Bristol and Bath area as the UK’s most important tech cluster outside of London in its Powering a Digital Economy 2015 report.
Bath-based media group Future today said it is starting to reap the rewards of its major restructuring programme under which it has slashed hundreds of jobs and sold off dozens of titles. The firm, which made a £35.4m loss in the year to September 30, also said it started its new finance year well...
Award-winning Bath-based architecture, urban design, planning and regeneration consultancy Nash Partnership has expanded its senior management team by promoting associate Daniel Lugsden to partner. In a strategic move which reflects a general growth across the practice, Daniel, pictured, joins senior partner Edward Nash and partner Robert Locke in managing the consultancy. Daniel joined Nash...
