Actual Experience, the Bath-based advanced analytics firm, has secured a three-year extension to its agreement with the procurement arm of multinational professional services company Accenture after launching a service linked to the huge increase in staff working from home. Analytics as a service company Actual Experience says its new Human Experience Management (HXM) offering...
More than £100m is to be spent on ambitious plans that use the West of England’s creativity and diversity to protect and secure jobs while building back greener and creating opportunities for all residents. The plan has been drawn up by the region’s Recovery Taskforce, which brings together businesses, universities and the West of...
New support for firms forced to close by law because of coronavirus restrictions by Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been welcomed by Business West, the organisation behind Bath Chamber of Commerce. The scheme, under which the government will pay two-thirds of the wages of staff working for these firms, was announced on Friday. It begins...
More than 150 jobs are to be created by Future, the Bath-based media group, as it continues to sidestep the economic impact of Covid-19. The rapidly expanding group, which last week hit the takeover trail again in the US and has also launched a number of new titles, said the majority of the new...
Bath’s firms are being invited to take part in a public project to fill the city’s streets with giant bunting made from their artwork and designs in the run-up to Christmas. The competition has been launched by the city’s Business Improvement District (BID) and printing firm Minuteman Press Bath, who see it as a...
Strong exports to the US, Canada, and Australia have lifted revenues at tech innovator Scanning Pens, which produces pens that help dyslexic children and adults to read. The firm, based in Westbury, Wiltshire, was co-founded in 2003 by Jack Churchill and Toby Sutton. Their skill and interest in edtech as well as Jack’s personal...
As the seventh month of working from home approaches and the season starts to change, Mogers Drewett HR consultant Lucy Cotterell offers some guidance and tips aimed at helping managers to ensure they can support their team’s health and wellbeing. With the Centre for Mental Health charity predicting that up to 10m people (almost...
Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, has launched a directory service to help signpost firms to vital advice, opportunities and support services. Back to Business is an evolution of Business West’s highly successful Trading Through Coronavirus platform, which has been visited by more than 100,000 businesses across the South West. It has been launched...
Bath-based Event Store, one of the UK’s top datatech firms, has received a strategic investment in a deal described as transformational for the industry. Event Store’s EventStoreDB has been a market leader in event sourcing and event-driven architecture used by developers since its launch in 2011. It will use the investment from Qualasept Holdings (QH) – based...
IT support firm Systemagic has recruited three new staff to its award-winning team as it continues to grow. Aaron Crouch joins the Bradford on Avon-based firm as an IT technician after working alongside Systemagic for a number of years. His main focus will be predominantly to support one of Systemagic’s larger clients with all...
