Cookpad, the Japanese-owned online recipe sharing and cooking community, has added four senior staff to its global HQ, which opened in Bristol last year. The four new arrivals, who include Mark Wheatley, co-founder of innovative Bristol music/audio platform Audiogum and former Mumsnet head of community Rebecca Mears, are the...
Bristol-based regional property consultancy Alder King has expanded its South West valuation team with the appointment of chartered surveyor Tanya Atkinson. Tanya, pictured, joined the firm from Cushman & Wakefield in Cheltenham, where she qualified as a chartered surveyor in 2014. As a RICS Registered Valuer, Tanya will...
Edo, the Bristol-based user-centred design agency, has appointed former industry head for healthcare, retail and fast-moving consumer goods at Google, Jenny Cowderoy, as a non-executive director. Edo, which last year changed its name from Sift Digital, described Jenny, pictured, as “an outstanding addition” to its team as the business...
International environmental consultancy Eunomia has continued its rapid expansion by recruiting five new consultants, including two in its Bristol headquarters. Rebecca Burgess, pictured top, has joined as a senior project manager having led a team of seven at Macmillan Cancer Support, where she secured more than £4m a year...
National public relations agency Social Communications has opened an office in Bristol and appointed two of the city’s leading PR professionals as part of its expansion into the South West. The office in Great George Street, the agency’s fourth, is headed by directors Ben Lowndes and Amy Bodey, who...
Bristol businesses have been urged to engage with their local communities to create programmes that help disadvantaged jobseekers into employment. The call to action came from a meeting of some of the South West’s most influential executives hosted by Business in the Community (BITC). The event drew on existing...
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The two ‘super projects’ funded by Bristol innovation hub Engine Shed to help create a more diverse tech workforce in the city were launched this week as part of its fourth birthday celebrations. Engine Shed’s Diverse Workforce for the Future project is supporting Boomsatsuma, Eidos and Babassa, DigiLocal, and...
Bristol’s two largest law firms were today named as the best in the country to work for by a leading legal website. Burges Salmon and Osborne Clarke, along with another regional firm Mills & Reeve, were praised for their “friendly culture which did not sacrifice work/life balance despite the...
Twelve leading individuals from Bristol and the West of England’s business community have joined the board of the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP). The appointments, made at the LEP’s meeting on Wednesday, will boost it in bringing together representatives from business and universities with elected leaders to shape and develop...
An innovative programme to help develop Bristol’s future black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) leaders has been launched by city mayor Marvin Rees in partnership with international law firm Osborne Clarke. Called Stepping Up, it will develop leadership skills and provide learning opportunities with the aims of improving the...
A showpiece Bristol office block that stood nearly empty during the recession is now more than 90% let after deals to occupy its top two floors – another reflection of the strength of the city’s commercial property market. Tower Wharf – described by the property agents marketing it as...
Launch Space, UWE’s hi-tech business incubator for graduates, has attracted 23 residents since it was launching just over six months ago. Based in the £16m University Enterprise Zone, Launch Space provides recent graduates from across the UK with free desk space for a year, innovation support and access to...
