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...
Future, the Bath-based international specialist media group, has maintained its position as the UK’s number one publisher of digital titles. Latest circulation figures from the ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulations − the industry body for media measurement) for the period ending December 2013 show Future sold 125,551 editions every month − more than twice...
Bath’s innovative firms in the green, hi-tech and creative industries are being invited to take part in a unique trade mission to China which aims to open up valuable new markets for businesses in these key sectors. Taking the ‘Smart Cities’ concept as its theme, the November visit will give 10 businesses from the...
Firms are being urged to sign up to GigaBath – the pioneering scheme to give the city the region’s fastest broadband – following its launch on Monday. Bath-based internet telephony, broadband and web hosting firm Gradwell Communications has teamed up with London fibre infrastructure provider CityFibre to develop the city centre network. At the...
The House, the Bath-based business and brand agency, has been shortlisted for two Transform Awards, which recognise rebranding, repositioning and brand transformation in the UK and in Europe’s creative industries. The House’s work with Norton Radstock College is nominated in the category for ‘best external stakeholder relations during a rebrand’ while its work with...
Six Bath hi-tech firms have received investment totalling nearly £400,000 from a regional growth fund to help them develop their pioneering products. The businesses – Neighbourly, Clean Energy, Citeab, Tivarri, Envolve Technologies and CloudFind – are based at the city’s SETsquared centre, which supports small, fast-growing innovative businesses, mainly in the hi-tech sector. Centre...
Bath-based media group Future is predicting double-digit earnings growth this year as its digital products continue to perform strongly. The group, whose titles span the tech, gaming, leisure and music markets, said digital and diversified revenues were up by 9% in the period from 1 October to Monday of this week. Revenues in its...
Actor Robert Powell, best known for the title role in Jesus of Nazareth, played a starring role of a different kind when he re-opened top jewellery designer Nicholas Wylde’s Bath shop. Nicholas, one of Bath’s best known independent retailers, had been working from temporary locations around the city after a fire caused by an...
Bath-based international media group Future has acquired a 35% stake in Handpicked Media, which represents more than 500 independent websites and blogs, reaching more than 3.5m unique users a month in the UK and 6m globally. The link-up provides Future with access to London-based Handpicked’s roster of influential blogs and independent sites across a...
Accountants PwC have launched their annual search for the region’s best companies with the 2014 West of England Business of the Year Awards – the region’s most prestigious business accolades. Previous winners of the awards, now in their 26th year, read like a who’s who of the West’s most-respected companies, including Dyson, MITIE and...
