LAUNCHPAD to The Business Magazine

This is the last issue of Business & Innovation Magazine, the title we first launched in May 2017. Our next issue, May 2023, will adopt the title The Business Magazine.

Apart from the name, everything stays the same: the team, the unique content, the chance to tap into and benefit from our huge business network which extends across the West Midlands into Gloucestershire, Bristol and the South West, and the whole of Oxfordshire. More than ever before we will become the champion of regional business.

This is an amazing success story for the small, independent publishing company we established in 2017. Last year we revealed that we had been snapped up by publishing and events company Black Ox Ltd, which shares the same ambitions as us – to support and report on regional business and host valuable networking and business programmes, including listings and awards, to help companies learn from each other and make new connections.

Black Ox’s flagship title, The Business Magazine, covers the Thames Valley, Surrey, Kent and Sussex, across to the Solent and the South Coast and has been published for more than 30 years.

If each magazine had been on Tinder, it’s likely we’d both have swiped right. Both have the same ambitions, and our regions compliment each other perfectly. Between both issues, we cover the whole of the West Midlands and right down to the South Coast

As a successful publishing upstart, we are delighted to adopt the name of our more established sister title to begin building brand continuity – so everyone knows what we stand for.

The Business Magazine has adopted our distinct magazine design – a perfect example of taking the best from both to achieve something special.

We are also making the most of the greater resources now available to us.

We’ve expanded our team with new appointments, begun to relaunch our in-person events and extend our regional coverage further into Bristol and the South West.

When we launched Business & Innovation Magazine in 2017, it was just Kirsty and I. It was a labour of love, long hours and gritty determination to build something which regional businesses would value and use, and they did – in abundance.

In return, the support we received from the business community was phenomenal, so we knew we were doing it right. And that support continued. It meant that when the pandemic hit we could continue investing and returned to print sooner than any other UK regional business magazine.

This isn’t the end of an era, it’s the beginning of the next chapter, and we look forward to all our readers and supporters benefitting from a bigger team supporting the region’s business community, and reporting on your successes, innovations and ambitions better than we’ve ever been able to do before.

Ambitious Leaders