Bath-based world music and dance festival WOMAD will be even greener this year following a tie-up with Ecotricity, the West-based green energy pioneer. The firm will host the Molly’s Green Bar stage at this year’s festival, which runs from July 25 to 28 at Charlton Park, near Malmesbury. WOMAD was launched in 1980 by...
Future, the Bath-based publisher, has blamed a cyclical decline in the computer games market for a fall in earnings and revenues. Earnings tumbled by 23% to £2.2m on a 1% fall in revenues to £56.4m in the half year to March 31. However, group digital revenues rose 33% year-on-year and now represent 25% of...
Absolutely Fabulous actress Julia Sawalha and historian Adrian Tinniswood will formally launch the No.1 Fan Club, a new Bath Preservation Trust initiative to raise vital funding for No. 1 Royal Crescent and help the conservation the key city landmark. The club, launched next Tuesday at the nearby Royal Crescent Hotel, aims to raise £200,000...
Bath creative digital agency Moresoda has won a major contract with food giant Del Monte to design and manage the digital and web activity for four of its UK juice brands. The account, with Del Monte’s UK partner Gerber Juice, represents a significant win for Moresoda and covers the mass market Del Monte juices...
Bath’s expanding creative sector is the focus for the next in the Circo Networking series, staged in conjunction with Bath Business News. The South Parade bar and Bath’s only dedicated business website have teamed up with Creative Bath, the organisation promoting the industry in the city, for the event next Tuesday which will bring...
Digital agency Aerian Studios, based at Holt, near Trowbridge, has launched a website and branding exercise to support sales of a unique sunflower oil based moisturiser developed by NHS clinical scientists. For more than 20 years, doctors at a Salisbury hospital have prescribed the cream to patients recovering from burns and plastic surgery. It...
Bath-based media group Future has been named Media Company of the Year at the British Media Awards. The victory follows accolades at the Association of Online Publishers and Professional Publishers Association awards for Consumer Digital Publisher of the Year, making Future the only media company to have held all three titles in one year....
The House, the Bath-based branding agency, has created promotional material and a brand film for social landlord Curo to support it at the recent MIPIM international real estate event in Cannes. Curo, one of the largest landlords in the region with more than 12,000 homes across the West, hired The House to help it...
There can’t be many cities on Earth where it’s possible to faithfully recreate a classic photograph 65 years on and find virtually nothing has changed. Yet, as this picture shows, Bath’s timeless beauty can provide a stunning backdrop today in exactly the same way it did when the great fashion photographer Norman Parkinson visited...
Why are public sector logos (and, by extension, their brands), so awful? The latest Brand Soup blog compares the likes of the Government’s Gangmasters Licensing Authority, Vehicle and Operator Services Agency and Health & Safety Executive with private firms’ logos – and finds them sadly lacking. What should the pen pushers in Whitehall –...
