Bristol IT firm Solsoft has relocated from Clifton – its home for 15 years – into the city centre, taking space in the Queen Charlotte House office scheme, close to Queen Square. The company, which pioneered the delivery of the IT managed services model to small firms across the...
Bristol firms are being encouraged to establish closer trading partnerships with their counterparts in the South West’s sister region in China following the signing of a major new agreement. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Guangdong Provincial Government and the Bristol & West of England China Bureau is...
Business West, the organisation that runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Bristol Initiative, has described this week’s Queen’s Speech as ‘bittersweet’, with positive measures counter balanced by risks linked to the EU referendum. The speech, which set out the new Government’s legislative programme for the year ahead, included...
Collaboration between some of Bristol’s most creative innovators and those from its twin town Bordeaux are being explored following a visit by an official delegation from the French city. The group from Bordeaux spent four days in Bristol during which they toured the Watershed media centre, Engine Shed innovation...
The Bristol-based Festival of Female Entrepreneurs (FFE), which supports women in business, is to be expanded following a link-up with small business network Enterprise Nation. Launched four years ago by Joni Farthing, founder and director of Women Outside The Box, the event has carved a reputation for inspiring speakers,...
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Bosses at telecoms provider Pure Comms can be excused for having a one-track mind following the installation of a 50ft model railway in their boardroom. But while any of the firm’s 10 staff, or its visitors, can play with the train set, there is a serious side to it...
Leading independent TV and film post-production specialists The Farm Group has become the latest firm to open a base at Bristol’s Bottle Yard Studios. The multi-award winning company has worked on post production at the studio for Channel 4’s Deal or No Deal since the show relocated to there...
Bristol-based exhibition and event management specialist Ignition has helped Swiss aircraft manufacturer Pilatus showcase its latest business jet – by installing a full-scale mock-up of it at the Australian International Airshow. Ignition, based at The Paintworks creative quarter, landed a star slot for the 17-metre long Super Versatile PC-24...
Three collaborations between University of Bristol researchers and creative businesses have received funding to take their ground-breaking ideas to market. Stand + Stare, Bristol-based creators of immersive theatre and interactive design, in collaboration with Prof Tim Cole of the Department of History, have created the Mayfly Sound Journal, a...
Bristol-based property development and management company Studio HIVE has launched an innovative design competition to celebrate its first anniversary. It unveiled a life-size rhinoceros statue outside its new offices on Oakfield Road, Clifton, at its first birthday party last night – and it is now asking Bristol’s creative community...
Bristol’s burgeoning film and TV industry generated nearly £17.5m towards the local economy in 2014-15, figures out today show, as the city further grew its reputation as a hub for major drama production. Top BBC dramas filmed in the city included Poldark, Wolf Hall, The Casual Vacancy and Sherlock,...
Bristol businesses keen to learn more about how ‘smart’ cities are evolving are being encouraged to join a London-led fact-finding mission to the China in July. The delegation will visit Hong Kong and Macau – widely regarded as two of the world’s leading cities for urban innovation in areas...
