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...
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...
Small Businesses group the FSB is to boost its grassroots lobbying activity in Bristol and across the South West after appointing a new-look senior team. Roger Tarrant, pictured right, previously one of the FSB’s branch chairman in the region, has become the first holder of the new wider role...
Bristol’s SETsquared tech incubator has recorded its most successful year since launching in 2002, with its 80-plus member businesses collectively creating 1,300 jobs and raising more than £130m in funding. The centre, regularly recognised as among the best in the world, has more than 80 active members – many...
Outstanding business leaders and entrepreneurs from Bristol are being urged to enter the region’s top awards recognising excellence in the boardroom. Launched this week, the Institute of Directors South West Director of the Year Awards 2018 showcase the wealth of executive talent and leadership across the region. New categories...
The pioneering car-of-the-future research centre, due to open in 2020 on the outskirts of Bristol, has appointed its first programme director. Gavin Edwards, pictured, joined the University of Bath’s Institute for Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems (IAAPS) this week from the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), an academic department at the...
Bristol-based business support organisation BRAVE Enterprise is hosting a free cyber security workshop later this month for entrepreneurs as new figures show hundreds of firms in the region have been attacked by online criminals. The seminar on January 17 is being presented by Joanne Bocko of Avon and Somerset...
Bristol firms considering doing business in China this year – or those already trading there – are being urged to take part in the region’s largest Chinese New Year reception and banquet. Organised by the Bristol & West of England China Bureau, the event brings together business leaders, key...
Phil Smith, managing director of Business West – the regional organisation that runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Bristol Initiative – looks back at the highs and lows of 2017. After a tumultuous 2016, many of us were perhaps expecting 2017 to be something like the morning after...
Bristol-based automotive parts firm Sanoh UK Manufacturing has celebrated 25 years of trading at its Avonmouth site. The Japanese-owned firm, which makes brake and fuel lines for major car manufacturers, opened its factory off Fourth Way in December 1992 – initially to supply Honda’s then new car plant in...
T-shirts that change colour to alert the wearer of dangerous chemicals in the air or pharmaceutical packaging that can show when pills are counterfeit could become reality under a major ‘smart ink’ project linking UWE and a leading scientist and print industry expert. Starting in January at the university’s...
One of the largest speculative warehouses to be built in Bristol is close to being finished, with its marketing agents expecting strong interest from firms operating in the so-called ‘last-mile’ of their supply chains. Unit G2 at Horizon38, the £85m employment scheme being developed on former Rolls-Royce land at...
A series of inspirational talks by high-profile business women is to be launched next year by Bristol Business School in conjunction with one of the region’s top hotels. Called Phenomenal Women, the bi-monthly events will be staged from February to November at the five-star Gainsborough Spa Hotel in Bath...
