Expert insights into sales and marketing, team engagement and building a business into a saleable asset will this Friday show how to take their business to the next level at an event aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises. The South West Business Growth Summit is being staged by ActionCOACH,...
Bristol will be at the forefront of next generation wireless technology this weekend when, for the first time anywhere in the world, 5G will be demonstrated in a public urban setting. Millennium Square will become a unique public test-bed as the ground-breaking tech will come out of the laboratory,...
Another new service to support Bristol firms wanting to scale up has been launched. Inspire Elite promises to help businesses find their way through the maze of support programmes available in and around the city. More than 100 business owners and directors attended the launch at UWE. Inspire director...
Bristol’s renowned Jazz & Blues Festival returns this weekend with the city offices of accountancy group Smith & Williamson and law firm Ashfords once again taking the stage as lead corporate sponsors. Now in its sixth year, the festival has fast become one of the city’s biggest live music gatherings....
Three innovative Bristol firms have been in India this week on an official trade delegation to meet new buyers, distributors and partners. The firms – Motivation UK, which provides wheelchairs and services for disabled people in developing countries, independent production company Icon Films and kids’ travel accessories brand Trunki...
Bristol full-service brand agency Mr B & Friends has launched a joint venture with US firm Noble Studios to bring together the best of British creativity with American technological expertise. The creation of Noble Digital Marketing follows a nine-month strategic collaboration during which Noble, which set up a Bristol...
Bristol small firms can find out about the cloud and how best to protect themselves from cyber threats by taking part in webinar next week staged by accountancy group Smith & Williamson. Around 75% of small businesses and entrepreneurs are looking to use cloud solutions to increase their business...
Trailblazing Bristol digital agency e3 has merged with strategy consultancy London Strategy Unit (LSU) to form Great State. The combined agency employs around 80 staff across offices in Bristol’s Paintworks, and in East London working with blue-chip clients such as Honda, Arla, GlaxoSmithKline and Adidas. It is being led by...
Bristol business experts have been reacting to yesterday’s Spring Statement, with most pointing to what Chancellor Philip Hammond failed to deliver rather than what he said. Regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming, which has the largest of its seven offices in Bristol, was particularly hard-hitting in its comments, calling it...
Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, welcomed Chancellor Philip Hammond’s assertion in his Spring Statement that he would continue to “support British businesses” – but it insisted that his actions had to speak louder than words. The £80m pledge to help small firms take on apprentices and the...
CBI chief economist Rain Newton-Smith said the Chancellor was rightly backing British business to secure the UK’s future prosperity in a new economy. “It’s great to see an upgrade in the state of our public finances and rightly sensible to set more aside for a rainy day with Brexit...
Bristol commercial property surveying firm Burston Cook has become the headline sponsor of this year’s Lord Mayor of Bristol Gift Gala. The event raises money for The Lord Mayor of Bristol’s Children Appeal, giving the city’s most disadvantaged children vouchers for food, clothing and gifts at Christmas. For...
A mentoring and recruitment app designed to help bridge the gender gap in the tech sector has been launched by Bristol-based tech entrepreneur Rav Bumbra. Rav, pictured, the founder of recruitment business Structur3dpeople, become convinced of the need for the service as a result of her own experiences as...
