SelectScience, the online publisher based at Corston, near Bath, has appointed Scarlett Swallow and Clare Cole to the roles of online marketing manager and content editor respectively following a period of strong growth. Scarlett has spent the past two years working for a leading independent legal publisher in Bristol and brings a wealth of...
BAMM, the Bath-based media makeup specialist, is reaching out to anyone interested in working as a media makeup artist in film, theatre or TV. The academy in Julian Road is opening its doors on the March 6 and 7 to potential students who want to either take their first step towards a career as...
British Bag Makers, the fast-growing Radstock-based company, will create unique handbags from a pop-up workshop at this year’s Bath in Fashion event – showing how British manufacturing continues to lead the world in luxury leather bag-making. Fashion celebrities such as milliner Stephen Jones, interiors expert Nina Campbell, supermodel Jade Parfitt, fashion writer Iain R...
The launch of Bath TV, the city’s innovative new digital TV platform, and a demonstration of the new BlackBerry Z10 smartphone were the attractions at the latest in the Circo Series of business networking evenings supported by Bath Business News. Guests at the event, sponsored fast-growing Swindon-based IT and communications firm Excalibur Communications, were...
Entries opened today for the SPARKies awards, aimed at celebrating the very best of the region’s tech and digital sector. The SPARKies awards are run as part of Bath Digital Festival and are open to companies and individuals based in the city as well as Somerset and Wiltshire. The awards were launched last year...
A decline in revenue from its printed US titles pushed down first quarter group sales at Future, the Bath-based international media group – but strong growth in digital meant that for the first time it represented a larger share of its total advertising income than print. Digital revenues rose by 24% in the three...
Bath-based international media group Future has teamed up with the Press Association (PA), to launch Football Week, a weekly international iPad magazine for global followers of the English Premier League. Launching in early next month, it will preview every game with full editorial pieces, team news, head-to-head info, player data and the latest stats....
Seventy businesses have already signed up to be involved in Bath in Fashion more than three months before it takes place. Last year 100-plus businesses supported the week-long event by taking part in shopping promotions, being involved in its range of workshops or displaying their products in its catwalk shows. Organisers believe this year...
In the latest of Bath Business News’ weekly Expert Panel series, Sean McDonough, employment law specialist for Mogers in Bath, explores what action businesses should be taking when they use social media To libel – to publish or broadcast an untruth which will harm a person’s reputation. This is a fact few would have...
Bath Digital Festival is to return for a second year after the success of 2012’s inaugural event. The festival attracted more than 3,000 people to 30 events over 10 days last year, including an internationally acclaimed X Media Lab conference, kids coding clubs, hack events and a digital awards ceremony. This year’s festival will...
