Bath-based digital media and publishing business Future has launched a dedicated design and development team for mobile applications as it strives to lead the market for innovation in the fast-growing sector. The firm, whose titles include Total Film and Xbox: The Official Magazine, is already one of the world’s leading tablet publishers and the...
Two projects by Bath-based built environment design practice Nash Partnership have been shortlisted in a prestigious national awards scheme. The St Paul’s project in Cheltenham – a consultation-led masterplan for Cheltenham Borough Homes – is competing in the ‘regeneration’ category of the Placemaking Awards while the Kingston Mills scheme in Bradford on Avon is...
Ideas on the best way to create sustainable jobs and growth across the West of England are being invited from Bath firms. The Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) today launches a six-week public consultation on its Strategic Economic Plan (SEP) – a blueprint for growth over the next six years. The Government has challenged England’s...
A recently-opened waterfront park in South Shields designed by Bath-based landscape architects Grant Associates has achieved a major national accolade. The CEEQUAL award recognises the £2.3m Harton Quays Park’s high environmental and social performance. CEEQUAL awards are presented to innovative civil engineering, infrastructure, landscaping and public realm projects. Harton Quays Park stretches along the River...
Bath-based media group Future’s interactive tablet magazine creation software arm FutureFolio has produced the first digital edition of the official Peppa Pig Bag-O-Fun magazine. Published by Redan Publishing, Peppa Pig Bag-O-Fun has an average circulation of 70,000 copies a month while the Peppa Pig brand, licensed by Entertainment One, is the number one...
Grant Associates, the Bath-based international landscape architecture firm, has joined a drive to help the UK’s creative companies win high-value contracts overseas. The Government’s trade boosting arm UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) will support a taskforce of the UK’s top 100 creative sector small and medium-sized enterprises to win overseas contracts worth £500m over...
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...
