Bath brand agency The House has been appointed by PracticeWeb, the Bristol-based web portal for accountants, to support its growth strategy over the next year. The House will work with PracticeWeb to clarify its business positioning and direction, develop new markets, and significantly grow the business this year and beyond. Set up in 1998,...
Bath-based landscape architects Grant Associates have been selected to work on a major regeneration project in Birmingham which will include a series of new streets and public squares around some of the city’s historic buildings. The 68,800 sq m Paradise Circus scheme forms part of a wider £450m masterplan for Birmingham city centre. Grant...
Bath businesses are being urged to take part in a cutting-edge event for young people to highlight the skills and job opportunities available in an innovative low-carbon economy. Called Your Green Future, it will feature industry thinkers and experts who will advise and inspire more than 400 secondary school students from across Bath and...
Tickets have gone on sale for this year’s Bath in Fashion as preparations continue for the high-profile May event. Over the past four years Bath in Fashion has played a key role in putting the city at the centre of the UK fashion industry, attracting world-renown designers such as Manolo Blahnik and Amanda Wakeley...
Independent brewer and restaurant chain Bath Ales has unveiled its two new-look café/bars at Bristol’s Colston Hall music venue following a major refurbishment. The firm, based between Bath and Bristol at Warmley, took over the iconic building’s food and drink contract last November. It has transformed the first-floor restaurant into a charcuterie bar called...
Bath’s role as an innovative city will be demonstrated at the highest-profile gathering of the global property market next week. MIPIM, staged annually in Cannes, brings together the most senior players in international property development and investment and acts as a showcase for business and development opportunities across the world. For the first time...
Bath’s reputation as a magnet for global film and TV production has been strengthened by it becoming the setting for an American drama-documentary on the life of composer George Frideric Handel. Kent-based Two Productions, commissioned by US firm Groberg Films, worked closely with Bath Film Office, part of Bath and North East Somerset Council,...
Bath’s world-class expertise in micro-electronics could play a crucial role in the recently-announced Smart Cities Trade Mission to China later this year. The West of England boasts the world’s second-largest cluster of micro-chip design expertise outside of California’s Silicon Valley. The Bath area is home to leading-edge chip design firms such as Picochip, now...
Bath businesses will next week get a rare chance to meet trade experts from the British Embassies in the US and Canada and explore transatlantic export opportunities on a one-to-one basis. The event, at the Mercure Holland House Hotel in Bristol on Wednesday, March 5, is the latest ‘meet the expert’ event to be...
Bath is about to get a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create a modern business centre that will position the city at the leading edge for creativity and innovation. The Bath Quays development sites – on either side of the River Avon near the city centre – will give the city a unique chance to attract...
