Bath Digital Festival is to return for a second year after the success of 2012’s inaugural event. The festival attracted more than 3,000 people to 30 events over 10 days last year, including an internationally acclaimed X Media Lab conference, kids coding clubs, hack events and a digital awards ceremony. This year’s festival will...
Bath-based designer Kathryn Pickering has been appointed as creative director by Pocket London, the upscale jeans brand recently-launched by Made In Chelsea star Louise Thompson. Kathryn will lead its creative direction for its forthcoming collection, producing a luxurious range of jeans in keeping with the brand’s values. The collection aims to have more design...
Integrity and honesty is the key to a good reputation, says Linda Donaldson, director at Bath-based Geometry PR, in the latest of Bath Business News’ weekly Expert Panel series. Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong is to appear on the Oprah Winfrey show this week after years of defiance and denial over claims of doping offences...
Bath-based audiobook group AudioGO has strengthened its business in the North American by acquiring US firm Blackstone Audio for an undisclosed amount. AudioGO, formerly BBC Audiobooks, already has operations in Rhode Island with offices in New York as well as its UK headquarters in Bath and an office in London. It has a catalogue...
Nash Partnership, the Bath-based architectural practice, is to sponsor this year’s Independent Bath Literature Festival as part of its 25th anniversary celebrations. The practice, which also has an office in Bristol, was started in 1988 by Edward Nash and has grown over a quarter of a century to become one of the most respected...
Bath Balloons, one of the region’s longest-established hot air ballooning companies, has appointed Tony Rees to market the brand, part of the Bristol-based company Ballooning Network. Tony, an experienced marketer, joins from English Heritage where he held several positions, most recently marketing historic properties in Cornwall, Devon and Dorset. Ballooning Network managing director Nic...
Former regional director of Arts & Business and one-time front of house and marketing assistant at Theatre Royal Bath has joined Bristol’s ground-breaking media centre and café/bar Watershed as general manager. James Taljaard, pictured, takes on the new senior position to focus on further developing the venue’s award-winning conference and events service. Bath-educated James...
What value should a business place on its corporation reputation? In the latest of Bath Business News’ weekly Expert Panel series, Linda Donaldson, director at Bath-based Geometry PR, provides the answer. Having a good reputation is something every business craves. Being known for providing a quality service or product is one thing, but building...
Businesses that go the extra mile to support the arts in the South West are being recognised today at a reception staged by Arts & Business (A&B), the organisation that brings together the cultural and corporate worlds. The Business Cultural Champions programme – a sister initiative of A&B’s successful Cultural Champions scheme – will publicly acknowledge...
Bath law firm Mogers has given the gift of light to the city’s Holburne Museum this Christmas by supporting a new major installation. Circuit: A Light Labyrinth, a new artwork by Martin Richman and Charlie Kerr, is unique to the museum and follows the success of Bruce Munro’s Field of Light installation last year....
