BRAVE Enterprise, the Bristol-based not-for-profit business advice organisation, is running a series of training workshops during September 2018 for those just starting in business and established firms looking to promote their goods and services. The workshops – which are held at BRAVE’s offices in Upper York Street, Bristol –...
Bristol’s pioneering arts and creative tech centre Watershed has appointed a new CEO and launched a new business aimed at boosting the city’s creative growth. The changes, which took place this week, see current managing director Dick Penny – who has led the award-winning venue for around two decades...
St Austell Brewery’s Charitable Trust has donated £10,000 to Children’s Hospice South West following the recent official opening of Bath Ales’ new brewery in Warmley. Since acquiring Bath Ales in 2016, the Cornwall-based brewery has spread its Charitable Trust’s operations into area to ensure as many people as possible...
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 Alex Hall, Maxine Bennett, a director at Bristol-based independent interior design consultancy Wylde IA, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? A...
More than 100 artists are exhibiting their work this weekend as The Other Art Fair returns to the city for a fourth time. Staged in The Passenger Shed at Temple Meads for the first time, it is aimed at a new generation of art buyers with a diverse range...
Bristol’s free street art festival Upfest has a larger area to showcase its artists’ talents when it takes place this weekend thanks to the support of a local developer. Firmstone Consortia One’s backing for the event, the largest of its kind in Europe’s, means it can extend further down Bedminster’s East...
Shareholders in leading organic children’s clothing maker Frugi have used expertise from regional law firm Ashfords and the Bristol office of national accountancy group BDO in their sale of a majority stake in the business. Frugi, which designs, manufactures and sells sustainably-sourced organic cotton apparel and accessories for babies,...
Bristol-headquartered national communications consultancy JBP is to move from its Clifton base – its home for 23 years – into the city centre as it gears up for further growth. The firm was launched in 1984 by Jennifer Bryant-Pearson with a single office in Bristol – making it the...
Bristol communications consultancy Purplefish has appointed Georgia Corp as an account manager to support its continued growth. Georgia, pictured, who has a master’s degree in Translation and Professional Language Skills from the University of Bath, joins to manage client and media relations and content generation. Her training as a...
This week, BrandSoup has been mostly catching up on back episodes of Suits. It’s as reliable an insight into New York legal practice as it is an accurate profile of the Duchess of Sussex. But it’s fun, there are some great lines and everyone is fabulously well dressed! One...
Bristol has missed out on becoming the home of Channel 4’s new national headquarters but is still in the running to be the location for one of its two creative hubs. Channel 4 said this week that it is still talking to Birmingham, Greater Manchester and Leeds about the...
A six-figure investment from Bristol Private Equity Club has helped fast-growing women’s fitness brand This Mum Runs step up to the next level. Launched with a single Facebook post in 2014, the trailblazing Bristol-based business is now one of the fastest-growing businesses in the city. With 35,000 members worldwide, a team...
The contributions of a number of Bristol business and cultural figures have this week been recognised by UWE by awarding them honorary degrees. Kalpna Woolf, pictured right, the founder of the innovative charity 91 Ways to Build A Global City – which reaches out to unite all the 91...
