Bath-based integrated marketing firm The Agency has been named as the UK’s number one independent agency for the second year running. It tops the ‘independent elite agency’ category for firms employing fewer than 25 staff in The Drum magazine’s respected annual national agency census. Its success last year was the first time an agency...
Bath-based media group Future has returned to profit after a year in the red as it hailed the success of a major transformation of the business. The publishing group, best known for its gaming, technology and creative magazines and websites, has slashed hundreds of jobs and sold off dozens of titles over the past...
Robert Craven, the widely-respected Bath-based author of business bestseller Kick-Start Your Business, is helping digital agencies to expand with his new book Grow Your Digital Agency. Robert, pictured, has been helping marketing and digital agencies to grow since the original internet bubble and is currently working with Google, where he is running a coaching...
Bath firms are today making their way to the South West’s biggest free business event gets underway today with organisers saying it looks set to be a flyaway success. Up to 3,000 delegates are expected to attend the Business Showcase South West 2015, which returns to returns to Bristol’s Colston Hall today and tomorrow....
The CBI today called on the new Tory Government to set out clear plans for the next Parliament within the first 100 days. With the in-out referendum on EU membership, which has been promised with two years, grabbing political attention, the business organisation wants swift action on a number of key issues including airport...
The ambitious £1.4m public share offer to turn Bath City FC into a community-owned club is to be launched on June 2. The event will kick off an action-packed three-month fundraising campaign during which businesses and individuals from Bath and beyond will be able to buy community shares to support the Big Bath City...
Anticipation is building with less than a week to go before delegates gather for the region’s biggest free business event. Organisers hope to welcome up to 3,000 delegates to Business Showcase South West 2015 next Thursday and Friday. Star attractions include keynote speakers ‘Millionaires’ Mentor’ Bev James and Levi Roots of Reggae Reggae Sauce...
Four former workers at Bath publishing house Future have launched an innovative new boutique content marketing agency. Vivid, formed by Jayne Caple, Rob Abbott, Steve Hulbert and Sean Atkins, promises to provide agile, highly engaging marketing and is already winning clients, thanks to the expertise of its founders. Managing director Jayne said: “We no...
A new brand and advertising campaign for Chippenham aimed at raising the town’s profile as a shopping and leisure destination is to be launched next month. A series of events will also be staged in the town this summer and in the run-up to Christmas to attract visitors and increase footfall for its town...
A group of Bath area firms and organisations are to transform the city’s historic Queen Square into a temporary fantastical landscape and outdoor gallery for a four-day contemporary arts event. The Forest of Imagination, which runs from May 15-18, will showcase Bath’s often hidden creativity and the outdoor gallery – ‘a gallery without walls’...
