Development of a major distribution park on the M4 has moved a step closer after the Bristol office of national regeneration firm St Modwen bought the 79-acre greenfield site. The Chippenham Gateway scheme could accommodate 1m sq ft of warehouse space, subject to planning consent – making it one...
Bristol-based customer experience firm Cxpartners is in the running for a national financial services award for its work revolutionising the Co-op Bank’s online profile. Cxpartners helped the bank focus on ethics, honesty and transparent customer experience in a move that has delivered dramatic results. The project has earned Cxpartners...
Experts from the Bristol Robotics Laboratory have won the Best Medical Paper award at one of the world’s largest robotics conferences for their pioneering work helping treat fractures. The team topped the category for their paper, which outlined how robotics can assist surgeons as an aging population means a...
Less than one in eight of the UK’s top 100 UK retailers have plans in place should there be a ‘leave’ vote in the EU referendum, according to a survey by Bristol-headquartered law firm TLT. This is despite the store groups themselves rating Brexit as one of the top...
A Bristol personal assistant who left school without formal qualifications has been named Pitman Training Young Achiever of the Year. Becky Lewis, who is dyslexic, was nominated for the award by bosses at her employer, Aztec West-based Rosemont Recruitment, who credit her with playing a key role in helping the...
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Bristol Junior Chamber recently held its Spring Drinks at the Royal West of England Academy. Among the guests was recently elected Mayor of Bristol Marvin Rees. Pictured below, from left: Charles Chami, Vice President of the BJC; Oliver Brown, President of the BJC; Marvin Rees, Mayor of Bristol; and...
Bristol’s Royal West of England Academy is to stage Jamaican Pulse: Art and Politics from Jamaica and the Diaspora – the first exhibition of its kind outside of Jamaica. This important new exhibition – taking place from June 25 to September 11 – is a radical departure for the...
Bristol arts charity Knowle West Media Centre has won a £23,965 share of a £2.5m Skills and Opportunities Fund run by NatWest. The fund supports organisations in disadvantaged communities that help people develop, create or access the skills and opportunities they need to get into work or start a...
Bristol-based Amalgam Holdings, which makes large-scale models for luxury car makers such as Ferrari, Bugatti and Lamborghini, has been taken over by a major US media and tech company. New owner Motorsport Network said it would make few changes at Amalgam, which was launched in 1985, apart from renaming...
Confidence has soared among Bristol’s creative firms with more expecting to make higher profits and take on more staff this year compared to 2015, according the most authoritative survey of the sector in the region. Three-quarters say they feel more assured about their business prospects than last year and...
TEDxUniversityofBristol has secured sponsorship from Bristol-headquartered law firm Burges Salmon to bring inspirational speakers from around the world to the city. The TEDx event, entitled The Complexity of Simple Things, takes place on Saturday June 4 at the University of Bristol. Bristol has become one of the UK’s leading...
Defence sector experts from Bristol-headquarter national law firm Burges Salmon have advised defence training firm Ascent on its £1.1bn helicopter training deal with the MoD. Ascent – a 50:50 joint venture between UK support services group Babcock and US defence giant Lockheed Martin – secured the contract under the...
