Bath-based publishing group Future has crashed to a £19.3m annual loss as a result of a poor performance by its US printed magazines. The group, which owns around 90 magazines including Total Film, Classic Rock and Fast Car, had made a profit of £5.5m in the previous year. Revenues for the year to the...
Future publishing boss Stevie Spring and her financial director John Bowman have quit their jobs with immediate effect. Their departure comes months after the Bath-based international special interest media group issued a warning about its full-year results and said it would undertake a restructuring of its businesses. Mark Wood, the head of Future UK, and Graham...
Bath-based PR agencies Geometry and Media Safari won gold awards in this year's prestigious West of England PRide Awards. Geometry took the Best Use of Media Relations award for its Made in Cornwall campaign while Media Safari collected gold in the Best Use of Social Media category for BitDefending the Nation. Geometry, which has...
Bath-based PR agencies Geometry and Media Safari have won gold awards in this year's prestigious West of England PRide Awards. Geometry took the Best Use of Media Relations award for its Made in Cornwall campaign while Media Safari collected gold in the Best Use of Social Media category for BitDefending the Nation. Geometry, which...
Key figures from the West’s PR industry will be gathering this evening for the prestigious CIPR West of England PRide Awards. The awards are the only ones of their kind to showcase the best PR work in the region and the winners will be announced at a sell-out black-tie dinner in at the Bristol...
In a major step towards northern expansion of its business, Radstock print and mail company CFH Total Document Management has acquired FST Technologies, a print and mail business based in Livingston and East Kilbride, Scotland. FST, which has a turnover of £4m, went into administration last week. It has been bought for an undisclosed sum...
Bath PR agencies will next week battle it out with rivals from across the region in the prestigious CIPR West of England PRide Awards. Among the Bath agencies vying for awards, which are presented at a black-tie dinner on Friday, are Geometry, shortlisted in the Best Use of Media category for its Made in...
With key figures from the West’s PR industry gathering this evening for the prestigious CIPR West of England PRide Awards, Bath Business News is preparing its comprehensive coverage of the event. * We will be ‘live’ at the gala dinner with full details of all winners as soon as they are announced on www.bath-business.net...
Prezola.com, the Bath-based online wish list business, has appointed strategic and creative marketing firm TheAgency, also based in Bath, to handle its pre-Christmas launch. Prezola is the brainchild of former Future Publishing director Dom Beaven, who was also head of digital and social media at Comic Relief and FIFA’s 1Goal World Cup legacy. Designed...
Response One, the fast-growing Bath-based data marketing group, has been acquired by marketing and printing firm St Ives in a deal reported to be worth up to £19m. Response One, established in 1998 and now employing around 70 staff, produces specialist media buying and sales services, as well as data insight, print management and...
