Each fortnight Creative Business News gives a prominent member of the region’s creative sector the chance to reflect on their career, their work and their ambitions by answering 10 questions about themselves. Name: Benjamin Scrase Job title: Graphics and technical co-ordinator Current company: Floating Harbour Films Age: 23 My...
Bristol-based digital and direct marketing agency Bray Leino Yucca has welcomed Justin Ballantine as a new creative director. Justin, pictured, has joined after more than six years working at employer branding specialist ThirtyThree in Bristol, where he was head of creative. At Bray Leino Yucca he will focus on creative...
Creative tech firms are being urged to sign up for a workshop to help them develop and pitch business ideas. Hosted by tech business incubator SETsquared Bristol on April 4, #Ideas2Pitch is aimed at aspiring tech entrepreneurs and follows the success of a similar event last year. The interactive workshop,...
The clock is ticking for Bristol directors to enter the region’s top award scheme recognising excellence and enterprise in the boardroom. The deadline for the Institute of Directors’ (IoD) South West Director of the Year Awards 2017 is March 31 and organisers are urging Bristol’s top executives to get...
Bristol’s film and TV industry generated £140.3m for the city’s economy last year and employed around 3,700 people, new research underlining its importance has revealed. The sector – the third largest in Britain – was also responsible for a further £17.7m of inward investment to the city, according to...
Four friends from Bristol are appealing to city businesses to sponsor their 3,000-mile Atlantic rowing challenge. Despite no previous rowing experience, Mark Gibson, Jon Lakin and brothers Steve and Dan Baker, who together form the Nuts over the Atlantic team, are taking part in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge...
Friska, the Bristol-based healthy fast food group, has signed its first franchising deal – a move that has enabled it to open its ninth outlet. The new site, due to open in June in the newly-refurbished Luton Airport departure lounge, will be the biggest Friska yet with more than...
The latest line-up of independent businesses set to join the second phase of Bristol’s innovative shipping container retail hub has been announced. Gopal’s Curry Shack, The Bristol Cheesemonger and a new venture from stylish bar operator Brace & Browns are among those confirmed to move into CARGO 2 –...
Chancellor Philip Hammond has been told to follow up his dramatic Spring Budget U-Turn on proposed National Insurance increases for the self-employed by reversing planned tax rises on small business owners. Regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming, which has its largest office in Bristol, welcomed the Mr Hammond’s decision to...
Specialist marketing agency Create Health has recruited two more staff as it continues to grow following its recent move into Bristol city centre. Senior account manager Anna Joseph and account manager Shane Adams have joined the healthcare marketing agency to work on its increasing roster of clients. Create Health...
Bristol’s innovation centre for scientific enterprise opened today – allowing the city to effectively compete for the first time against cities such as Oxford and Cambridge. Unit DX, pictured, will encourage cutting-edge science and tech start-ups with the kind of high-end laboratory space and support facilities common in the US and...
Alice Nunn, an in-house planner in the Bristol office of planning, design and regeneration consultancy Nash Partnership, has been elected as a chartered member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI). Her election increases the Bath-based practice’s complement of chartered town planners to four. To gain membership, Alice, pictured, had...
An innovative Bristol business that allows sportspeople to capture replays of their exploits at the press of a button, has been acquired by the world’s largest digital platform for cricket. My Action Replay, based in Bristol’s SETsquared incubator, has developed a system that provides clubs, players, coaches, and fans...
