Business organisations have welcomed the stability that the resounding Conservative General Election victory will bring – but question marks remain over the kind of Brexit deal a Boris Johnson-led government will strike. Business West, the South West’s largest business group which runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Bristol...
Future Space, the science and tech hub on UWE Bristol’s Frenchay Campus, has achieved record results in its third year of operation. During the year the centre, which is managed by Oxford Innovation on behalf of the university, reached full capacity with more than 50 businesses occupying its offices,...
A pioneering campaign to help firms in the South West prepare for life outside the European Union has earned a major national award for Business West, the region’s biggest business support organisation. Recognising that Brexit represents the single most radical transformation in the way that British businesses trade for...
South West law firm Foot Anstey has advised fast-growing media group Future on the latest in a string of acquisitions. Bath-based Future, whose titles include FourFourTwo, How It Works and Total Film, paid £23.5m for London-based Barcroft Studios, which operates a YouTube channel with 9m subscribers and 63m followers...
A Bristol tech start-up has launched the country’s first community-focussed lost property app as a way of reuniting some of the 50m items that go missing in the UK every year with their owners. Found, which can be used by the public and businesses, is the brainchild of Lance...
Bristol’s Bottle Yard Studios has attracted two more businesses as it strengthens its role at the heart of city’s creative and film industry. Award-winning kit hire and post provider Films@59 and live content technology specialist Loop Streaming and Productions bring the number of firms at the hub to 24. ...
The team at Butcombe Brewery are toasting their success in a prestigious awards scheme that celebrates the best of Britain’s bottle and canned drinks. The brewery, based at Wrington, landed two Golds in the British Bottlers’ Institute (BBI) Competition. Now in its 40th year, the contest is a blind...
A groundbreaking £6.5m project aiming to expand the use of creative technologies across the South West is seeking 24 people to explore the frontiers of data. The South West Creative Technology Network (SWCTN) is recruiting ‘data fellows’ to ask questions about the current state of data in the region...
YTL, the Malaysian industrial conglomerate, has vowed that its Bristol Arena scheme will give the city a “365-day entertainment destination” as it submitted the much-delayed project for planning permission. The firm, which owns Filton Airfield – where it is developing a major new housing and employment scheme – said...
Bristol creative agency and video games marketing specialist Diva has opened a new studio space in central Bristol after outgrowing its Queen Square head office. The 4,000 sq ft of loft-style workspace on St Thomas Lane, Redcliffe, will provide additional capacity for its fast-growing creative and client services teams. Diva, which...
Bristol and London law firm Temple Bright has advised Channel 4 on legal work linked to its new Bristol Creative Hub. The recently opened 3,200 sq ft office, in the historic Fermentation Buildings at Finzels Reach, pictured, will become a base for key creative decision makers supporting Channel 4’s...
Bristol-headquartered strategic communications consultancy JBP landed three awards at a prestigious ceremony to celebrate the South of England’s public relations industry. The agency, which also has offices in Cardiff, London, Manchester and Warwick, landed one Gold and achieved runner-up Silver status in two other categories at the regional Chartered...
Members of the South West Creative Technology Network (SWCTN), the £6.5m project to expand the use of creative technologies across the region, are to get free legal advice from Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT. Under the new professional services support programme, SWCTN members will be able to access legal...
