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Barclays’ £1m funding means print group can press ahead with growth plans

October 21, 2013
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Barclays’ £1m funding means print group can press ahead with growth plans

Superior, the fast-growing design, print and fulfilment group, has secured a £1m investment from its long-term bankers Barclays to support further expansion. The funding comes a year after Barclays supplied £2m to fund a purpose-built design studio and increase printing capacity at Superior’s Melksham headquarters. Superior, which has doubled its turnover to £15m in...

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Guru goes online with new versions of top-selling business titles

October 16, 2013
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Guru goes online with new versions of top-selling business titles

Bath-based business coach Robert Craven, described by the Financial Times as ‘The Entrepreneurship Guru’, is has lanched two major online initiatives this month. The prolific writer with five best-selling business books to his name has released a new, updated version of Customer Is King – first published in 2002 – on Kindle. Sir Richard...

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Contribution by The Consortium helps Smiths News deliver profits rise

October 16, 2013
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Contribution by The Consortium helps Smiths News deliver profits rise

The Consortium, the Trowbridge-based educational and health supplies distributor, has helped its parent company Smiths News achieve a 14% rise in full-year profits. The Consortium, which Smiths News bought for £38m in April last year, contributed underlying operating profits of £7.4m in the year to August 31 compared with £3.6m in the previous 12...

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Future looks brighter as media group enjoys pick up in advertising bookings

October 16, 2013
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Future looks brighter as media group enjoys pick up in advertising bookings

Shares in Future, the Bath-based international media group, rose sharply this morning on an upbeat trading statement and a promise to give shareholders their first dividend for two years. The group, whose titles range from TechRadar to Simply Knitting, said advertising bookings for the first quarter of its 2014 financial year were up by...

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Future media group’s longest-serving director to step down after 13 years

October 1, 2013
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Future media group’s longest-serving director to step down after 13 years

Bath-based international media group Future’s chief financial officer and longest-serving board member Graham Harding is to leave the business. Mr Harding, pictured, who has been with Future for 13 years, two of them in his current post, will step down after the company’s preliminary results in November to pursue other career opportunities. He will...

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Contract delays and tough markets reduce half-time profits at SciSys

September 26, 2013
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Contract delays and tough markets reduce half-time profits at SciSys

Shares in Chippenham-based specialist IT and software firm SciSys fell sharply after it revealed a 19.8% drop in interim pre-tax profits and warned that its markets remained challenging. The group, whose blue-chip customers include the Ministry of Defence, European Space Agency and major broadcasters, blamed the decline in profits to £749,000 on contract delays. Chairman...

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Paralympics campaign puts Media Safari in running for top regional PR award

July 29, 2013
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Paralympics campaign puts Media Safari in running for top regional PR award

Bath-based specialist PR agency Media Safari has been shortlisted in the Chartered Institute of Public Relations’ (CIPR) PRide 2013 Awards for its work on a campaign for last year’s London Paralympic Games. It is the third consecutive year the agency, which specialises in tech and social media, has been nominated in the awards, which...

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Bath Uni to help BBC develop new innovative forms of content

July 19, 2013
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Bath Uni to help BBC develop new innovative forms of content

The BBC has teamed up with a number of universities across the UK, including the University of Bath, to research interaction and user experiences across its platforms. The partnership will explore the potential of new forms of content and interaction in a multi-platform world alongside new ways of producing media that will help make...

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The Guild gives Bath its long-awaited creative and tech co-working hub

July 18, 2013
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The Guild gives Bath its long-awaited creative and tech co-working hub

A new co-working hub for small-but-ambitious firms in Bath’s creative and tech sectors has opened, offering them modern office accommodation in the city centre. Based at the Guildhall – and aptly named The Guild – the 3,500-plus sq ft newly-redeveloped space offers breakout areas, conference rooms, a library as well as a number of...

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Business start-up scheme calls in Bath’s The Agency to power its growth

July 12, 2013
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Business start-up scheme calls in Bath’s The Agency to power its growth

Bath-based communications firm The Agency is working with Start-Up Loans, the £112m initiative helping thousands of young people launch their own businesses, to advance and re-launch its CRM (customer relationship management) platform. The system has been designed to allow extensive and secure data sharing between Start-Up Loans, which is chaired by former Dragons’ Den...

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