Bath-based magazine and website group Future has announced a new-look executive management team as it continues to slash costs and restructure the business. The group, whose print portfolio ranges from Total Film to Xbox: The Official Magazine and owns websites such as musicradar.com, recently sold most of its sport and craft titles to Bristol-based...
Bath communications agencies Media Safari and DWP Public Relations have been shortlisted in the top awards for the region’s PR industry. Established tech PR and social media agency Media Safari is in the running for two awards at the 2014 Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) PRide Awards. It is the fourth consecutive year...
Bath-based innovative social network Neighbourly.com has been officially launched with the ambition of revolutionising corporate social responsibility. The business, which connects community projects with companies, has been developed by entrepreneur Nick Davies and is the first digital platform to be created for the largely unstructured corporate giving sector within the UK, which is worth...
Bath integrated communications firm The Agency has won a 12-month contract to promote Welsh beef across the UK – just three months after it was appointed as lead agency for a nationwide Welsh lamb promotional campaign. Both contracts have been secured from Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales (HCC), the organisation responsible for...
By Colin Skellett, Chair, West of England LEP Since the Government announcement a couple of weeks ago of the local growth deals awarded to England’s 39 Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), there have been a lot of big numbers bandied about. Unless you’re close to the deals, the figures and the fuss may seem a...
Bath-based media group Future today continued its major restructuring with the sale of another batch of titles to reduce debt. The firm today confirmed it had exchanged contracts to offload its auto titles and Triathlon Plus magazine to Kelsey Publishing for up to £2.9m. The move follows the £24m sale of most of Future’s...
A strong performance by the West of England in attracting business investment from overseas has helped the UK achieve the highest number of inward investment projects since records began in the 1980s, new figures show. There were 27 new investment projects by overseas companies in 2013/14 across the area covered by West of England...
Bath’s thriving digital cluster – and one of its leading up-and-coming businesses – have been championed to an audience of national investors at a Tech City UK event in London. Bath, along with Bristol, was one of five tech clusters from across the UK to be invited to present at the Tech City UK...
A major extension to the Manchester School of Art by Bath architects Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has been selected as one of six projects shortlisted for this year’s Stirling Prize, the UK’s most prestigious architectural award. The extension to the progressive Manchester School of Art, which began life in the 1830s, provides an engaging...
Shares in troubled Bath publisher Future fell this week after it admitted its major restructuring and job cuts would not turn around its finances until at least its next financial year. In an interim management statement released to the London Stock Exchange, it said it was making “good progress” with its transformation programme, which...
