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 Owen Franklin, director of Bristol Film Festival, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? I saw Deadpool on its opening weekend and...
A scheme to bring ultra-fast internet speeds to Bristol and help boost the local economy has been launched by city Internet Service Provider Triangle Networks with fibre network infrastructure group CityFibre. Bristol: Gigabit City is offering a portfolio of new, ultra-fast services targeted at Bristol’s business community. Running over...
GAMECHANGERS – a unique and highly innovative project to identify the 50 individuals shaping the future of Bristol’s economy – has been launched by Bristol Business News. These inspirational people are helping make Bristol the UK’s most exciting city through their innovation, enterprise and creativity. Some will be well...
Bristol’s economy is in line for a boost later this year when the city hosts the penultimate stage of the Tour of Britain 2016, British Cycling’s premier road cycling event. The seventh stage of the high-profile race will take place entirely within the city on Saturday September 10. The...
Bristol’s pioneering media centre Watershed is to develop a Regional Arts Incubation Network (RAIN) to increase the contribution that the arts and culture sector make to the West of England’s creative economy. The centre is to receive £500,000 from Arts Council England to work with the West of England...
Bristol-based hyperlocal news magazine firm The Voice has launched its 10th print title, just four years after its first edition. The Voice series now hand-distributes more than 90,000 copies each month to households in the city. And discussions are now advanced to begin an 11th magazine within the Bristol...
Bristol’s position as a centre for financial technology (fintech) and cyber security expertise was highlighted today when Economic Secretary to the Treasury Harriett Baldwin visited the city to meet some of its key players. Bristol is playing a major role in ensuring the UK retains its position as a...
A school where two long-forgotten poems by Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien were rediscovered has received specialist copyright and intellectual property advice from the Bristol office of regional law firm Thrings. The two poems – The Shadow Man and Noel – were found in the 1936 annual...
Bristol-headquartered recruitment group RSG has embraced the good-natured sporting rivalry between the city’s two universities and announced sponsorship deals with clubs at both institutions. RSG, which is also Bristol City FC’s headline sponsor, is to back the Jets Basketball Club at UWE and the University of Bristol Women’s Rugby...
The Bristol offices of property consultancies JLL and Alder King have been instructed to market vacant space in city’s newest office building, the showpiece 2 Glass Wharf at Temple Quay. The 100,000 sq ft, £40m building was developed speculatively by Salmon Harvester and NFU Mutual last year. Accountancy giant...
A project to breathe new life into two long-empty city centre office buildings has reached an important milestone as work progresses to transform them into student homes. The final piece of timber frame has been put in place at Prince William House, a Grade II listed 1980s building in...
Businesses spanning model making, security, costumes and logistics are the latest firms to join the thriving film and TV-related community at Bristol’s Bottle Yard Studios. The four firms further expand the on-site creative hub at the site, which is already home to a wide range of specialists in areas...
The number of over-50s seeking advice on starting a business with Bristol support organisation BRAVE Enterprise has more than doubled over the past year. The not-for-profit body helps hundreds of aspiring entrepreneurs every year and has assisted many thousands more launch new ventures since the 1980s. Last year more...
