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Digital Bristol Week to bring Google’s Digital Garage to the city

October 13, 2017
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Digital Bristol Week to bring Google’s Digital Garage to the city

Bristol businesses can make sure they are up to date on the latest trends in digital next week at a series of free events. Digital Bristol Week takes place in venues across the city over five days with digital art installations and film screenings, business seminars, exhibitions and workshops...

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Fast-growing West accountancy firm toasts success in industry league table

October 13, 2017
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Fast-growing West accountancy firm toasts success in industry league table

Regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming, which has its largest office in Bristol, is celebrating leaping up the accounting industry’s most prestigious league table. The firm has broken into the top 30 of leading industry magazine Accountancy Age’s rankings for the first time.  It achieved a 12% annual turnover increase...

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Venturefest to showcase how West tech firms are creating a smart future

October 13, 2017
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Venturefest to showcase how West tech firms are creating a smart future

The largest ever gathering of tech companies in the West of England takes place on Tuesday when more than 500 local, national and global delegates assemble for Venturefest Bristol and Bath 2017. The event will put the spotlight on innovative approaches to the way we will live, move around...

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‘Masterful’ conservation of former General Hospital in running for national property award

October 13, 2017
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‘Masterful’ conservation of former General Hospital in running for national property award

Bristol’s former General Hospital is to go head to head with 11 other conservation projects from across the UK in the final of a major national property award scheme. The project by Essex-based specialist developer City & Country, pictured, topped the Building Conservation category at the 2017 RICS Awards,...

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Chancellor urged to use Budget to ease ‘disproportionate’ tax burden on small firms

October 13, 2017
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Chancellor urged to use Budget to ease ‘disproportionate’ tax burden on small firms

Bath’s small business owners will be hardest hit by new tax regulations on dividends, one of the region’s largest accountancy firm is warning. Bishop Fleming, which delivers accounting, tax, corporate restructuring and advisory services to businesses and private wealth advice to individuals, says a key change to the taxation...

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The Legal 500: Bristol’s high-flying legal eagles named

October 12, 2017
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The Legal 500: Bristol’s high-flying legal eagles named

The Legal 500, the respected annual guide to the UK’s legal firms and individuals, has named dozens of Bristol lawyers on its list of the region’s ‘leading individuals’. Bristol lawyers once again make up the vast majority – and, for the first time, up-and-coming lawyers have been included alongside those...

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Business support service calls on Metro Mayor to launch skills revolution to end recruitment crisis

October 12, 2017
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Business support service calls on Metro Mayor to launch skills revolution to end recruitment crisis

A skills revolution is needed in the West of England to solve the recruitment problem now hitting many of the region’s firms, Metro Mayor Tim Bowles has been told. The message was delivered to him by the head of national business support service GetSet for Growth, who said ‘hard-to-fill’...

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Expansion for Purplefish PR team after it wins flurry of new business

October 12, 2017
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Expansion for Purplefish PR team after it wins flurry of new business

Bristol-based creative and tech communications consultancy Purplefish has won five new clients and appointed a new account executive in the run up to its fifth birthday.  The agency, set up by experienced Bristol PR figure Joanna Randall in 2012, has signed new contracts with clients including recipe sharing platform...

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Bristol Business Blog: James Durie, chief executive, Bristol Chamber of Commerce & Initiative. Celebrate our Festival of Ideas

October 11, 2017
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Bristol Business Blog: James Durie, chief executive, Bristol Chamber of Commerce & Initiative. Celebrate our Festival of Ideas

Ideas have always flowed in and out of Bristol, taking on a new life here. Through our airports and harbour; through our world-class universities and businesses; and through our unique arts and cultural scene. Bristol is a place where ideas flourish. From Clifton Suspension Bridge and Banksy to Massive...

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TEDxBristol to offer free tickets to people from diverse backgrounds to widen participation

October 10, 2017
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TEDxBristol to offer free tickets to people from diverse backgrounds to widen participation

TEDxBristol – the UK’s largest event of its kind – has launched a Community Partnership Programme offering free tickets to groups and individuals who would otherwise be unable to attend. The programme aims to build bridges between the game-changing ideas of TEDxBristol and communities around the city who may...

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Ahead of the Agenda: The Week Ahead

October 9, 2017
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Monday October 9 Trading announcements: Trinity Mirror Tuesday October 10 Interims: Ted Baker, Domino’s Pizza, BlackRock Trading announcements: BAE Systems, Vedanta, Victrex Economic announcement: UK trade balance (August) Wednesday October 11 Trading announcements: Dunelm, Page Group, Premier Foods, Telford Homes Thursday October 12 Finals: WH Smith Interims: Sky, N...

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Voice-enabled products breakthrough triggered by Bristol tech innovators

October 6, 2017
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Voice-enabled products breakthrough triggered by Bristol tech innovators

Pioneering Bristol tech firm XMOS has developed world-leading technology which could lead to a new generation of voice-enabled consumer products. The firm, which last month received $15m (£11.4m) in an investment round led by German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon, has become the first European chip company to release technology to...

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Pitching event aims to inspire diversity of opportunities in Bristol’s hi-tech and digital sectors

October 6, 2017
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Pitching event aims to inspire diversity of opportunities in Bristol’s hi-tech and digital sectors

Engine Shed, the Bristol innovation hub, is to host an ideas pitching event to help decide the winner of a project that encourages and inspires young people from diverse backgrounds to consider careers in the tech and digital sectors. Eight groups are to take part in the Call for...

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