A Bath firm producing digital maps that stop passengers getting lost in busy airports and missing their flights has received further investment to roll out the technology across the world. Living Map, which was founded in 2010 by urban design consultant Tim Fendley and now employs more than 25 people, will also use the...
A Bath boutique hotel has landed two major industry awards at the end of a year during which it suffered a fire just hours after being forced to close in the first national lockdown while its owners also caught Covid-19. The four-AA-star, 29-room hotel Queensberry Hotel was named Independent Hotel of the Year at...
Bath-based cooperative Dot Project, which works with organisations that are creating positive change to help them achieve their goals through technology, has been awarded £465,000 in National Lottery funding to provide its expertise to organisations tackling mental health, sexual abuse and domestic violence. In partnership with London-based Shift, which tackles social problems through the...
Four Bath Spa University students have collaborated with Somerset Wildlife Trust to create a powerful video raising awareness of ash dieback, the fatal fungal disease ravaging woodlands across the UK and Europe. From filming, to sound and editing, BA (Hons) Creative Media students Caitlin Bancroft, Elizaveta Stoliarova, Rebecca Lomas and Kiana West worked on the live...
The hidden makers of Bath – the city’s modern-day creatives, craftspeople, engineers and innovators – are being celebrated on a new website and series of podcasts. The site – madeinbath.co.uk – has been produced by Bath-based brand and design studio Mytton Williams, following its 2018 book, also called Made in Bath, pictured, which showcased...
It is sadly inevitable that this year’s staff Christmas parties will not be the usual get-togethers and businesses will, no doubt, already be looking at more inventive ways to have a festive celebration, be it virtual or with individual gifts, etc. writes Pearson May partner Matthew Rutter. From online cookery classes, virtual pantomimes and streaming...
A marketing consultancy specialising in working for businesses that focus on delivering sustainability has published a report on its own climate action. Content Coms’ annual Creative Climate Disclosure report, the second it has produced, shows that just 1.6% of its turnover comes from a carbon-intensive industry – a reduction on the 4.6% in last...
Given the unprecedented challenges all businesses have faced over the past six months, there is no doubt that 2021 is going to be an important year. Add to this the UK leaving the EU on December 31 and the uncertainty of more lockdowns and for many businesses 2021 could be a make or break year....
Bath’s Tier 2 restrictions when it comes out of the national lockdown next week will have a “chilling impact” on its economy, with much of its hospitality sector remaining “frozen” in the vital run-up to Christmas, business groups have warned. Bath Chamber of Commerce group Business West said despite having escaped being put in...
Bath’s acquisition-hungry media group Future has hit the takeover trail again with a near £600m offer for the firm behind the Co Compare website. The £594m cash-and-shares offer, which has been accepted by GoCo Group’s board, was revealed on the same day that Future posted a 300% increase in annual pre-tax profits to £52m on sales...
