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MESSAGE FROM MEMBERSHIP


BY PHIL BRIDGEMAN MEMBERSHIP MANAGER AT BUSINESS WEST


The Great British is summer well and truly upon us and so far it is looking like a sizzler, but you won’t find the Business West team heading to the beach to top up their tan, oh no. The only thing sizzling at


Business West this summer is the freshly cooked breakfast at one of our Chamber networking events, which are running throughout July and August:


4 July Bath Chamber Networking and Nibbles Royal High School, Bath


6 July Bristol Chamber Networking Breakfast Bordeaux Quay, Bristol


19 July Gloucestershire Chamber Networking Breakfast Hatton Court Hotel, Gloucester


3 August Bristol Chamber Networking Breakfast Bordeaux Quay, Bristol


More and more local


businesses are signing up to attend our networking breakfasts all the time, so you’re guaranteed to make fresh connections at our next event, where once again we’ll be helping our Chamber members capture and nurture exciting new opportunities. Remember, Chamber


members who register through our website receive a 45% discount on the regular booking price, so don’t delay and reserve your place now. Scorchio!


12 insight JULY/AUGUST 2017


On board with new office A


Bristol-based digital marketing agency has expanded with a brand new nautical-themed office to accommodate its growing team. Leading agency, Fat Media has seen incredible


growth over the last year, as a result the firm has invested in a 5,000 sq foot office, in the heart of Bristol’s vibrant and creative sector on Wine Street. The office, which overlooks Castle


Park and is just around the corner from St Nick’s market, has taken a fun take on Bristol’s nautical past, with seaside themed workspaces, beach hut meeting rooms, a pirate flag, barrel bar and a ship’s bow in the staff lunch area. The new furnishings are designed to


John French, managing director at Fat Media, said: ‘The new office allows


for a more relaxed environment for all our current employees and new


graduates’


create a vibrant and creative atmosphere for the agency’s team. The office also provides space for new staff that Fat Media have appointed and to accommodate a new user testing lab, to allow Fat Media to robustly analyse the user-experience of their clients’ websites.


“We wanted to create this space to not only accommodate our growing team but to continue to reflect Fat Media’s personality with a vibrant, creative and engaging theme. The working culture at Fat Media is extremely important. The new office allows for a more relaxed environment for all our current employees and new graduates to get stuck into some of the fantastic work we do here.” The project, which began earlier this year, sourced materials from local shipyards, sellers, and up-cycled second-hand purchases to create an


authentic office decor within a budget. To celebrate the grand opening of the new office, Fat Media will host a networking


event for Bristol’s local businesses with special guest speaker, Google's Wim Wauters. For more information on the July event, visit: www.businesswest.co.uk/members/ events/fat- media-bristol-networking-google-speaker


Mobile app is just the ticket


A new ticketing app developed in Bristol has just been released to the public. Available for Apple and Android devices, Tikk is all about preventing touting, getting rid of booking fees, empowering users to resell tickets and offering better ticket security for event fans. Tikk is a mobile ticketing


platform for event organisers and independent businesses looking for a simple, secure platform to sell tickets. While it’s only available in Bristol for now, the app is designed to help people find tickets for local events and buy them quickly and securely. To create more freedom for ticket holders, Tikk allows ticket buyers to relist unwanted tickets to sold out events, free of charge. With ticket touting and fraud becoming a more widely discussed issue, a big focus during Tikk’s


development was how the app could combat these problems. The app also includes technology to identify real ticket buyers, using four levels of identification. Based in Bristol and developed by product agency and tech partners Simpleweb, Tikk positions itself as a secure, ethical ticketing platform. “Simpleweb has been on the


lookout for a ticketing startup with the right values for some time,” said Simpleweb managing director Mark Panay. ”When Tikk came along we knew that we'd found the right


opportunity at the right time.” Martin Hiscox, founder of Tikk, said: “We set out to


develop the easiest way to buy mobile tickets, with new levels of ticket security. It protect fans, artists and venues from problems associated with traditional ticketing.”


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