Empica, one of the region’s longest established PR agencies, has taken on its second new team member in less than a month with the appointment of Jo Laws as digital marketing and online manager. Jo, pictured, who studied Marketing Management in Cardiff, will head the agency’s digital team which...
Bristol tech pioneers who sold their last business to Twitter have received venture capital investment from two tech funds for their new company, which focuses on using messaging platforms to improve opinion polling. Poli harnesses the reach and immediacy of social messaging platforms to recruit larger, more representative panels...
British Basketball has appointed Bristol marketing agency Mr B & Friends to create its new brand identity as it targets additional funding. The agency, which relocated to Temple Quay from Bath 10 months ago and now employs 43 people, has a strong track record in sports branding, including working...
Members of the Being Brunel Corporate Club and other supporters of the SS Great Britain Trust were thanked for their help in making the new museum a reality with an exclusive after-hours celebration. The £7.2m museum opened alongside Brunel’s iconic SS Great Britain on Bristol’s Harbourside last month and...
Directors of two of Bristol’s most innovative companies have been shortlisted for a national awards scheme recognising the UK’s top entrepreneurs. Steve Cliffe, president and CEO of Ultrahaptics, whose cutting-edge technology allows people to ‘feel’ virtual objects, and Charlie Allen, managing director of family-owned action sports equipment firm Shiner,...
The Festival of Female Entrepreneurs returns to Bristol for a seventh year in October with one of Britain’s most successful entrepreneurs already lined up as headline speaker. Emma Bridgewater, who has spent more than 30 years building up a successful pottery business, will share her experiences and give advice...
The gloves will be off at a charity quiz in Bristol next month as one of Britain’s best-known former boxers takes the quizmaster’s hot seat. One-time world light-heavyweight champion John Conteh MBE, pictured, will ensure there is a clean fight between battling teams at the quiz on May 31,...
Independent business group Bristol Breakfast Networking (BBN) is to launch a fortnightly meeting for the northern part of the city to meet demand from its expanding membership. BBN was set up 18 years ago for the benefit of small business owners in Bristol area. But over recent months it...
Engine Shed on Tour, the latest initiative from Bristol’s highly successful innovation hub, has been launched to encourage young people to follow careers in the West of England’s tech, digital and low carbon sectors. Engine Shed on Tour will visit 16 schools and businesses across Bristol, South Gloucestershire, Bath...
A group of University of Bristol engineers have strengthened the city’s growing reputation as a 5G hotbed by demonstrating their high-level research at a major cyber security conference. Their research into radio wave propagation modelling, smart cities, high-capacity radio waveforms and Gigabit transport connectivity was highlighted at CYBERUK, the...
Collecteco, the Bristol-based firm that help businesses donate furniture, equipment and materials to good causes, has become the first from the city to join the West of England’s pioneering sustainable technologies programme. Collecteco works with businesses and other organisations to donate reusable furniture, equipment and materials to good causes,...
One of the most inspirational women in technology today is to give the second in a series of talks by high-profile business women later this month. Carole Mundell, head of physics at the University of Bath, will speak at The Gainsborough Bath Spa Hotel’s Phenomenal Women event, part of...
A £6.5m project that will harness the power of innovative digital technology to boost the West of England’s creative, health and manufacturing sectors is to be launched by a consortium of universities, including UWE Bristol, and arts venues including Bristol’s Watershed medias hub. The new Creative Technology Network will...
