Business West, the region’s largest business support group, has launched a free up-to-the minute advice and guidance service to help firms get ready for life after Brexit. Called Trading Through Brexit, it aims to help businesses start planning for the period up to and after the UK leaves the...
A trade mark registration gives its proprietor a measure of control over how third parties can describe their wares. In the case of an identical mark used on identical goods and services, it’s a reasonably straightforward proposition. But, as the marks and their respective goods/service begin to differ, you...
Bristol is to become a global ‘living exhibition’ for innovation in housing as a new festival gets under way and the mayors of more than 80 cities worldwide arrive for a major conference. The Bristol Housing Festival, which kicked off today in Waterfront Square near Millennium Square, brings together manufacturers,...
Bristol is aiming to become the home of Netflix’s new UK production base as the US TV giant starts a nationwide search for a suitable site. Netflix will make about 40 productions in the UK this year. But due to a shortage of production space in the UK –...
Trade and economic links between Bristol and its Georgian twin city of Tbilisi have been strengthened through a visit by Mayor Marvin Rees and a group of regional business leaders. The visit was part of a series of commercial, cultural and educational events taking place throughout the year to...
Applications are being invited for an investor pitching competition that will put Bristol’s best tech start-ups in front of key investors. Firms will be vying for investment of between £100,000 and £5m at the Silicon Gorge Investor Showcase – part of this year’s Bristech event – when 10 start-ups...
Two of Bristol’s top tech disruptors will line up against some of the world’s most innovative businesses in a major new award scheme. YellowDog and Blu Wireless Technology are competing in the inaugural 2018 UK Business Tech Awards, which will be presented in London next month. YellowDog, which has...
Bristol is to get more innovative workspace following approval for plans to use around 90 converted shipping containers to create a scheme in the new Wapping Wharf harbourside quarter. Called CARGO Work, it will be Wapping Wharf developer Umberslade’s first foray into the offices sector on the site best...
Sally Cordwell, the former SS Great Britain Trust deputy CEO and director of marketing and visitor experience, has been appointed by Bristol Old Vic as its interim director. Sally, pictured, will undertake the role, which she takes up on November 1, alongside her work as business director in the...
A business hub to help Bristol’s digital entrepreneurs start up, scale up and innovate has been officially launched. The Digital Innovation Business Acceleration Hub (DBAH) aims to support 120 companies working on new technologies in the health, well-being and creative media sectors across the West of England. Set up...
Bristol Airport next week will launch a multimedia marketing campaign to highlight its biggest ever winter programme. Under the strapline Even Better from Bristol, the campaign focuses on the airport’s growing appeal for passengers across the South West and South Wales as a raft of new flights appear on...
More than 650 entrepreneurs have been helped and 80-plus jobs created under the Enterprising West of England programme launched 18 months ago to assist with start-ups and scale-ups in Bristol and across the region. The figure includes 440 aspiring entrepreneurs who were assisted at the pre start-up stage, while...
Bristol Old Vic’s Seeds of Change week comes to its conclusion this evening with 50 Voices for Change – a celebration in partnership with Ujima Radio. Inspired by the declaration of 2018 as the Year of Change by Ujima and the Old Vic, it brings together local, national and...
