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With businesses becoming increasingly reliant on the successful use of social media to grow, Barclays is staging an event next week highlighting some of its more effective tools. Called Leading in the Digital Age – the use of Intelligent Social Media, the event at UWE’s Frenchay Campus near Bristol on Wednesday evening will hear...
Bath creative and tech firms are being invited to hear some of the biggest names in the world of gaming and entertainment at a major event next week that will put the West of England on the global map for the fast-growing virtual reality industry. Leading lights from Sony and Bossa Studios have joined...
Business West, the organisation behind Bath Chamber of Commerce, will continue to be responsible for helping firms across the West of England to export after being awarded the contract to run the UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) services in the region for another five years. Business West, which has held the contract for the...
The first show flat at a major £16.6m student housing development in Bath opened this week as transformation of the historic Twerton Mill neared completion. The scheme will convert the former landmark building on Lower Bristol Road into a state-of-the-art student housing complex. The project is being developed by McLaren Property with construction work...
Keynsham’s striking new civic centre and the innovative Lee Centre at Bath’s Ralph Allen School have been named among the region’s best new buildings by RICS (the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors). They appear on the shortlist for the annual RICS South West Awards, putting them head to head with major new schemes such...
Bath Ales and Bath Racecourse have signed a three-year sponsorship deal which will make the brewery, pub and restaurant group headline sponsor of the racecourse’s annual beer festival while its beer will be official guest ale of the course. Bath Ales, based between Bath and Bristol at Warmley and best known for its flagship...
Regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming, which has an office in Bath, has continued to shrink its carbon footprint despite growing its staffing levels. The firm has added 75 people to its workforce and won more 1,000 clients over the past year yet its average consumption of electricity and gas per employee fell by more...
Chase de Vere, the Bath-based firm of independent financial advisers, has been named as one of the Top 25 Most Admired UK Companies for 2015. The accolade from eprivateclient, the leading website and news service for private client practitioners, is based on an analysis of comments from leading firms of lawyers, accountants, trust companies...
Three new routes to key European cities are to be introduced from Bristol Airport as it continues to expand its network on the Continent. The flights to Paris, Düsseldorf and Nantes will be operated by bmi regional. The move comes as Ryanair prepares to add direct flights to cities such as Cologne and Stuttgart...
