Two Bath public relations firms have struck gold at the top awards for the region’s PR industry. Geometry PR won two categories as it enjoyed another triumphant evening at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations’ (CIPR) West of England PRide Awards. Geometry’s campaign Creating a Local Hero for Bath law firm Mogers collected the...
Future, the international media group based in Bath, emerged a big winner at yesterday’s hotly-contested Digital Magazine Awards, receiving four major accolades. Edge was named Specialist Magazine of the Year, Computer Arts won Visual Magazine of the Year, Jamie Magazine, produced using the FutureFolio app creation solution, was crowned Launch of the Year (New...
Labour can win the next general election with business-friendly policies but will probably find itself in a Lib-Lab coalition, the party’s former spin doctor Alastair Campbell told West business leaders last night. The election battleground will be the economy, he said in his keynote speech to the CBI South West’s annual dinner. The Conservatives...
Bath businesses have been urged to support Bath in Fashion 2014 and help keep the city firmly in the vanguard of British style. The UK fashion industry has been one of the country’s international business success stories of recent years, helping create jobs and boost exports. And over the past four years Bath in...
Bath-based planning, creative, technology and media firm The Agency saw off stiff competition from larger established agencies at the prestigious Marketing Industry Network Awards to walk away with four trophies out of its six nominations. Its haul on the night included SW Best Marketing Business of the Year, Best UK Small Agency of the...
Future, the Bath-based international media group and digital business, has appointed James Ranson as director of advertising sales for its UK arm. James, pictured, was previously ad director of Future’s London sales unit but now takes on cross-company responsibility in the UK, including the sales team based in Bath. James has been responsible for...
Only Connect, the region’s premium business and social networking company, has teamed up with Bath Business News’ sister website Bristol Business News, to offer readers an exclusive discount on tickets for the next Only Connect red-carpet event. Only Connect’s prestigious events have become must-attend dates in the region’s business calendar since they were launched...
Former Labour Downing Street spokesman-turned political commentator Alastair Campbell is proving to be a popular draw for the West’s leading business figures – more than 500 of them have signed up to attend this year’s CBI’s regional annual dinner where he will be guest speaker. Mr Campbell, pictured, best known for his role as...
Bath-based publishing group Future will next week launch Science Uncovered, a monthly magazine with in-depth coverage of the latest breakthroughs in technology, space, nature, humans and engineering. The magazine, which will be available in print and digital form, will also have contributions from experts giving their own insights into the latest discoveries as well as...
Fifty-seven workers at Bath audio books firm AudioGo have been made redundant as administrators blamed “significant accounting issues” for its collapse. The firm, employing around 100 staff in Bath, officially entered administration last Thursday, less than a week after efforts to sell it as a going concern were abandoned. Accountants BDO said its restructuring...
