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...
Global engineering technology firm Renishaw has strengthened its support for Bristol’s iconic music venue Colston Hall by agreeing to sponsor a room in its new education suite. The room, which has not yet been named, will be created in the venue’s unused Victorian cellars as part of the £48.8m...
Architects from the Bristol office of international firm BDP are behind the design of a major new-generation £79.5m surgical centre, which has just been given the go-ahead by the government. BDP’s Bristol studio was appointed by Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust to design a new surgical and critical...
Bristol print firm Kingsdown Printers today went into administration with the loss of all 60 jobs. Kingsdown, which has operated for more than 30 years, specialised in designing, producing and supplying lithographic and digital printed materials to clients, including print management companies and blue-chip customers. Over recent months it...
Long-established Bristol public relations consultancy Empica is expanding by joining forces with a smaller Bristol-based PR agency. Empica, which has been in business since 1989, has taken over Inform Media, with Inform’s founder Neil Fraser now heading its business-to-business offering. Neil, an experienced journalist and PR professional, founded Inform...
A 70% rise in average annual profits over the past three years served up by Bristol-based Caribbean restaurant chain Turtle Bay has put it among the UK’s fastest-growing firms. The firm, launched by chief executive Ajith Jayawickrema in 2010, appears in the latest annual Sunday Times BDO Profit Track...
