Bath-headquartered global media group Future this week admitted that its CEO Zillah Byng-Thorne, who is widely regarded as the driving force behind its success in recent years, plans to step down. It made the move after its share price slumped by more than 16% on media reports of her intended departure. The group, which...
Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the area’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Emma Wharton Love, a workplace strategist with Bath-based office design and build company Interaction, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? I haven’t been to the cinema since...
Bath media group Future has appointed an experienced sector figure as chief operating officer to support its global expansion as it continues to reap the rewards of a raft of recent takeovers. Claire Blunt, pictured, currently chief advertising officer and CEO of international at Guardian Media Group, will take up her new role at...
The future of Bath as a vibrant business centre will go under the spotlight next Tuesday at a special conference in the city. The sell-out event, which is being staged by the Bath Business Improvement District (BID), will give firms the opportunity to have their say about the city’s future as an innovative hub...
Former BT chief customer officer Lisa Harrington has joined Bath-based full fibre broadband provider Truespeed as a non-executive director, bringing with her more than 25 years’ telecoms industry experience. Lisa, pictured, joins the Truespeed board as the company accelerates the rollout of ultrafast, ultra-reliable broadband across the South West. A diversity advocate as well...
The government has been urged to give more details about how it intends to help struggling businesses with soaring energy bills a week after assurances its price guarantee plan for consumers would also apply to them. Business West, the region’s largest business group and the organisation behind Bath Chamber of Commerce, welcomed the announcement...
Games media group Network N’s new flagship office in Bath, which was created by city-based workplace design-and-build company Interaction, is in the running to win a prestigious global award. The fast-growing business is a finalist in The Society of British & International Interior Design’s (SBID) International Design Awards for its workplace in Circus Mews,...
Bath’s young creatives are being invited to take part in a weekend studio experience aimed at giving them a valuable insight into working in an agency. Werkhouse was co-founded in 2017 by Bob Mytton, creative director of Bath-based brand and design agency Mytton Williams, as a deep dive into the creative and interpersonal skills...
The Roman Baths & Pump Room have been voted as the UK’s third best historic attraction by readers of consumer magazine Which? The historic site, which is owned by Bath & North East Somerset Council, scored an impressive five stars – out of five – for its engagement and entertainment value, with a number...
The South West’s largest business organisation has ‘warmly welcomed’ the government’s promise to help firms with spiralling energy bills this winter - but called for it to regulate the market to ensure stability in the future. Prime Minister Liz Truss’s energy price freeze announced yesterday means households bills will be capped at £2,500 a year from...
