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 Bryony Morgan, founder of Made in Bristol, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Waterworld – because it’s the greatest. Book you...
Twenty per cent of all office space let in Bristol this year is likely to be used for a new generation of flexible co-working hubs as the move towards new forms of business accommodation gathers pace. New research by international property consultancy JLL, which has an office in Bristol,...
Bristol businesses can get free training in the latest digital skills during a series of workshops, talks and panel discussions put on by the BBC and creative industry partners. Digital Cities Bristol 2018 next week will bring together businesses and organisations with more than 30 events, including interactive VR experiences...
A new group to give Bristol’s diverse night-time economy, including its bars, clubs and restaurants, a collective voice has been formed. The Bristol @ Night advisory panel aims to ensure the vitality and diversity of the city’s night-time activities are not only preserved but also supported to expand and...
West of England businesses with ambitious growth plans will be able to get grant funding and relevant, high-quality support and training under a new programme launched by UWE Bristol, NatWest and regional law firm Foot Anstey. S4G (Scale Up 4 Growth) is open to businesses in any sector that...
Small business owners and those planning to go self-employed can learn how about promotion on a shoestring at a series of events staged by BRAVE Enterprise in Bristol in December. The sessions, which are being held at the not-for-profit business advice organisation’s offices in Upper York Street, include: Effective...
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 Megan Witty, event organiser of the 24 Hours in Bristol photographic competition, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? As I’ve been...
Businesses and organisations from across Bristol have joined together to launch the city’s first collective agreement to promote the values of equality, diversity and inclusion. The Bristol Equality Charter was launched at M Shed on Monday with original signatories and supporting organisations gathered to show their commitment to promoting...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has advised long-standing city-based client Oscar-winning animation studio Aardman on the effective sale of the business to its workforce. Aardman founders Peter Lord and David Sproxton, pictured below, have transferred the majority of the company’s shares into an employee ownership trust which will hold...
By Ollie James, corporate sustainability expert and business development director at Bristol marketing communications agency Proctor + Stevenson If you’re looking for something more confusing to solve than a Rubik’s cube, just look at the kerfuffle surrounding the recent Christmas advert by UK frozen foods supermarket Iceland. The tear-jerking...
A former advisor to Google and Amazon has joined Bristol specialist customer CRM (customer relationship marketing) agency Armadillo as a non-executive director. Ann Hiatt, pictured, a Silicon Valley veteran of 15 years, previously worked directly alongside Eric Schmidt and Jeff Bezos – the founders and CEOs of Google and Amazon respectively. ...
The West of England’s largest business organisation has urged “calm compromise” from politicians over Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan to avoid what it said would be the “tremendously damaging” impact of the UK crashing out of the EU with no deal. Business West – which runs Bristol Chamber...
Pioneering aviation museum Aerospace Bristol is in the running for a hat-trick of awards to add to its trophy collection tomorrow at this year’s Bristol, Bath and Somerset Tourism Awards. The year-old museum, which houses Concorde as well as tracing Bristol’s lead role in the history of powered flight,...
