Bath businesses can learn how to expand and win more customers at a series of free training events in the city organised by the business growth consultancy Cool Ventures. The workshops are open to businesses that enrol on the Bath Business Support Programme, which is delivered by Cool Ventures. The programme provides free, intensive...
More than 200 businesses including many of Bath’s top independent restaurants, shops and hotels have signed up to take part in a pioneering gift card loyalty scheme aimed at boosting the city’s retail and leisure economy. The Bath Gift Card, which was launched last week by Bath Business Improvement District (BID), will also help...
Bath-based design agency Supple Studios has been recognised as one of the South West’s top digital innovators at a regional awards scheme. The agency triumphed in the Branding in a Digital Environment category of the South West Digital Awards last week for its work on the Prison Radio Association’s Straightline campaign, which was designed...
Business West’s Skills West team is running a series of business skills workshops in Bath throughout autumn covering topics ranging from recruitment and flexible working to apprenticeships for small and medium-sized businesses and developing the workforce. The workshops are free and open to businesses from any sector or industry. Title: How to find the...
Specialist IT group SCISYS has secured work worth £2m on a project aimed at improving bus services in London through the use of emerging technology. The Chippenham-headquartered group, whose expertise spans transport, defence, media and space, is to provide software design, development and support services to Transport for London (TfL) for timetabling and scheduling...
The Gainsborough Bath Spa has again been awarded three prestigious placings in the latest Condé Nast Traveller Readers’ Travel Awards, which rank the world’s best hotels, resorts, cities, islands, airlines and cruise lines. The five-star hotel was ranked second in Top UK Hotel Spas category, ninth in Top UK Holiday Hotels and also included...
Bath’s American Museum in Britain has been renamed the American Museum & Gardens and given a new brand identity by city-based design agency Touchpoint in moves aimed at attracting a wider audience. The new garden is the first stage of an ambitious plan to boost visitor numbers to the 57-year-old museum at Claverton on...
Bath’s County Hotel, which was acquired by city-based hotel group the Kaleidoscope Collection earlier this year, has been rebranded as The Bird, Bath. The new brand aims to give the Pulteney Road property, pictured, a distinctive new personality and coincides with the appointment of former Apex City of Bath Hotel manager Tim O’Sullivan as...
Bath Business School, part of Bath Spa University, has been shortlisted for the first time in the Business School of the Year category of the Times Higher Education Awards 2018 – regarded as the ‘Oscars’ of the HE sector. Bath Business School students take a range of specialist courses in business and management...
A snapshot of Bath’s start-up and scale-up ecosystem has been produced in an easy-to-use format to show where high-growth businesses can find essential support, information and advice. The innovative Growth Map – illustrated like a London Tube map and thought to be the UK’s first of its kind – has been launched by the...
