Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on our weekly e-bulletin. This week: Adam Carwardine, managing director of Colour Studios, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Spotlight. The film follows The Boston Globe’s Spotlight team, the oldest continuously operating...
Pioneering Bath specialist technical content marketing firm Publitek has been sold to a major UK digital communications group in a £6.2m deal. The firm, founded by Bath entrepreneur Bob Jones, builds content platforms, creates and optimises content, and manages on and offline communities for more than 40 companies in the global semiconductor and electronic...
Bath’s outstanding entrepreneurs and business leaders have less a week to enter the region’s top awards scheme that recognises excellence and enterprise in the boardroom. The annual Institute of Directors’ South West Director of the Year Awards showcase the wealth of executive talent in the region. Bath Business News is once again backing the...
Personal injury law firm Novum, which has an office in Bath, has secured a £50,000 out-of-court settlement for a mother whose breast cancer should have been diagnosed sooner by specialists at the city’s Royal United Hospital. The firm said the case was the latest example of the NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA) refusing to accept...
Bath’s start-ups and young entrepreneurial businesses can book themselves onto a flight path for growth across the UK and into Europe under a new scheme launched this week offering free airline tickets. Seats for Start Ups – a partnership between bmi regional, UK Trade & Investment and the Engine Shed innovation hub in Bristol...
Go Green, a business initiative to drive sustainability in the workplace, has been launched in Bath after its success in Bristol as part of its year as European Green Capital. A collaboration between business leadership organisations Business West and Low Carbon South West, it signposts organisations to resources that can help them be greener....
A team of cycling enthusiasts from law firm Withy King are preparing to ride from their offices in central Bath to Paris to raise money for charity. The 14 cyclists from Withy King’s two offices in the city – at Midland Bridge and Queen Square – will be joined by colleagues from Withy King’s...
Bath-based communications agency Highlight PR has unveiled a new brand identity and website as it gears up for further growth following a record year in 2015. The firm moved to larger offices in the city centre last year to accommodate its expansion, which has included the appointment of two account directors and the expansion...
Independent recruitment company 24-7 Staffing has vowed to honour the new National Living Wage and use it as a starting point for pay for all candidates it places as well as its own staff. Coming into effect next month, the National Living Wage has been set at £7.20 per hour for those aged 25...
Accountancy group EY has appointed former HSBC regional corporate banking head Mark Bennett as a relationship director covering the South West & Wales. Mark, pictured, spent 38 years in a variety of roles at the bank, including strategic development, head of business marketing and head of corporate banking for the last 12 years. He...
