Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Chris Holland, managing director of Waste Source, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? The Social Network. Book you read? I’m not...
A former industrial building in Bedminster ‘re-imagined’ as an artist-led contemporary art gallery officially opens next Friday. Kosar Contemporary on Malago Road is the largest independent art space in Bedminster and has been established in a 6,000 sq ft former light industrial factory by visual artist Zarabéa Esfendiar Kayani...
Last-minute tickets for next week’s Lord Mayor of Bristol Children Appeal Carol Concert are still available. The event, at the new look St George’s, takes place on Thursday, December 6 and will be raising funds for the appeal, which supports 1,650 families in the city with food, clothes and...
A pioneering app that helps drivers find an on-street parking space and so help tackle congestion has chosen Bristol for its launch. The crowdsourced data-led app, called Parklook, goes live on Tuesday (4 December) with the aims to be one of the easiest, safest and fastest ways to improve kerbside...
Two expanding businesses have helped set the pace for the North Bristol office market, filling a recently-refurbished building and setting what is believed to be a new record rent for business space out of the city centre. Global logistics company Agility has taken the 6,000 sq ft South building...
Bristol’s pioneering Watershed cinema and media centre has revealed ambitious expansion plans that would add four new floors above the existing building and create workspace for more than 100 creative entrepreneurs. Under the scheme, pictured, the Harbourside building will increase in size by nearly half from 4,400 sq m...
ForrestBrown, the Bristol-based specialist R&D tax credit consultancy that has grown into the largest of its kind in the UK, has expanded into London by opening an office in a landmark building in the heart of the City. The move, which aims to boost its already strong links in...
Fast-growing Bristol energy firm OVO is to take on the 290,000 customers of Scottish rival Spark Energy, which has gone out of business. OVO has also acquired Spark’s operating company – with more than 300 staff based mainly at Selkirk in the Scottish Borders – and will retain the...
The shortage of workers in Bristol and the West of England with cyber skills is to be addressed through a major new scheme to be launched next week. Called Do Cyber, it will help raise awareness, create and deliver opportunities for young people so they can develop the necessary...
National accountancy group Grant Thornton has appointed Karen Robb to head the VAT team in its South region, which covers Bristol. Karen, pictured, joins from the firm’s London office, where she led its VAT, customs and indirect tax practice for the UK and EMEA. Grant Thornton said her relocation...
Regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming, which has its largest office in Bristol, is preparing to celebrate its centenary next year by becoming the official title sponsor of the 2019 Bath Half Marathon. The partnership is the first of a series of major initiatives and activities which the firm plans...
Contract catering and hospitality specialist BaxterStorey has appointed Mack Allan as its South West and Wales managing director as it seeks to grow its presence in the region. The national group already has a significant local client base, including law firm Burges Salmon’s Bristol head office, Nationwide building society’s...
A remarkable number of retail businesses don’t plan for a crisis – a big concern given the reputational consequences of mishandling a potential drama, says Foot Anstey partner Nathan Peacey. Most days in the office are a bit like the one which went before. A micro-drama here or there,...
