Women’s clothing brand Rowland’s, which originated in Bath 30 years ago, is to be revived under its original name as its third owner in two years takes control. The firm, which most recently had been based in Trowbridge, has gone into administration twice in as many years. But new owner, fast-growing Swindon online retail...
Bath-based media group Future today announced it has agreed to sell a large part of its business to rival publisher Immediate Media for £24m as it revealed it had slumped into the red. Immediate, the UK's third-largest magazine publishers whose titles include Radio Times, is to take over most of the Future’s sport and...
A £2m school communications centre and recital hall designed by Bath architects Mitchell Taylor Workshop has won a prestigious architecture award, beating 21 other nominations from across the South of England. The Pangbourne College Harding Communications Centre near Reading topped the category for design and construction excellence in the Royal Institute of British Architects...
A new fund focusing on investing in the Bath area’s early stage tech businesses is to be launched by Technology Venture Partners, a new independent venture capital fund manager based in the region. Technology Venture Partners is to start the fund to run alongside YFM Equity Partners’ closed South West Ventures Fund, which it...
Bath-based media group Future has launched a 45-day consultation with its entire 900-strong workforce on a major restructuring of the business which it has admitted will lead to job losses. Staff, including the 500 working in its Bath headquarter, have been told by bosses that the company badly needs to cut costs and adapt...
Bath branding consultancy The Agency has been appointed by Somerset specialist technology manufacturer Gooch & Housego as its lead planning, creative and digital agency. Ilminster-based Gooch & Housego, a $100m global business producing a range of fibre optic technologies, operates in more than 20 sectors with a high-profile role supplying critical systems and components...
Bath-based architects Stubbs Rich’s plans for a 35,000 sq ft Volkswagen dealership in Exeter have been given the go ahead. The showroom will be the first building to be constructed on the city’s Matford Green Business Park and will include a 22-car showroom and a 15-bay workshop, plus a large used car display area,...
Bath branding agency Ignition Strategic Design has secured its position as one of only three creative agencies appointed by the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) to service its creative requirements for the next two years. The appointment came after a detailed and exacting tendering process with 300 agencies across the country...
Bath-based integrated communications firm The Agency has won a 12-month contract to help promote Welsh lamb across the UK. The appointment by Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales (HCC), the organisation responsible for the development, promotion and marketing of Welsh red meat, followed a three-way strategic and creative pitch against stiff competition from...
Bath Business News travel editor Anne Gorringe has been shortlisted in the Travel Article of the Year category of the prestigious annual VisitEngland Awards for Excellence for her article offering an insider’s guide to Manchester for business visitors. The high-profile awards will be presented at a glittering ceremony at Cheltenham Racecourse next Monday when...
