Shops, cafes, hotels, independent financial advisers and universities were among the winners in this year’s South West Fairtrade Business awards, which champion firms that put ethical responsibilities at the heart of their business. The awards, staged yesterday at Bristol’s City Hall, attracted scores of entrants from across the region....
Bristol concert venue Colston Hall is to unveil its two new-look café/bars this evening following a major refurbishment by Bath Ales, the independent brewer and restaurant chain which took over the iconic building’s food and drink contract last November. Bath Ales has transformed the first-floor restaurant into a charcuterie...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com Volunteer presenters on Bristol community radio station BCfm are dreaming of broadcasting live from the World Cup in Brazil after an airline agreed to pay for their flights. The station’s One Love Breakfast show team launched a social media campaign to see if they could...
A radical regeneration of the area around Bristol Temple Meads station and the new arena site to improve access for pedestrians and cyclists is being put forward for nearly £21m in funding. The scheme will vastly improve the semi-derelict Temple Circus – an eyesore for decades – and provide...
Verve Properties, the niche developer behind Bristol's highly-successful Paintworks creative quarter, has started work on the first speculative office refurbishment in the city for five years as the market recovery continues to gathers pace. London-based Verve said it saw a gap in the Bristol office market for trendy office...
Bristol businesses will next week get a rare chance to meet trade experts from the British Embassies in the US and Canada to explore transatlantic export opportunities on a one-to-one basis. The event, at the Mercure Holland House Hotel in Redcliffe Hill, on Wednesday, March 5, is the latest...
Businesses are being urged to help elevate Bristol to a world-class centre for jazz and blues music as part of Mayor George Ferguson’s ambitions to make the city the ‘New Orleans of the UK’. Cultural and business links between Bristol and the Louisiana birthplace of jazz are being formalised...
Bristol’s world-class expertise in micro-electronics is to play a crucial role in the recently-announced Smart Cities Trade Mission to China later this year. Bristol boasts the world’s second-largest cluster of micro-chip design expertise outside of California’s Silicon Valley. Many of its leading-edge firms have become global players in the...
West firms of all sizes are being urged to enter their directors in the region’s top award scheme recognising excellence and enterprise in the boardroom. The South West Institute of Directors (IoD) Awards 2014 celebrate the achievements of the region’s outstanding business people and their contribution to the its...
UWE vice-chancellor Professor Steve West has been selected to take part in a panel debate on how best to foster student innovation and entrepreneurship. Chaired by Guardian Universities editor Judy Friedberg at The Guardian University Forum 2014, the panel will consider the role universities play in nurturing student entrepreneurship...
The Bristol Old Vic, which celebrates its 250thanniversary in 2016, has launched a membership scheme for the city’s business community to help secure the future of the theatre for another 250 years. Called The Twenty Twenty Club, the scheme has already signed up its first member – international property...
Bristol’s long hoped for arena cleared its final hurdle this week as its funding package was agreed by the full city council. Work will now begin on appointing an operator to run the 12,000 capacity venue on disused land near Temple Meads station in a move that will deliver...
Bristol’s innovation in the green, hi-tech and creative industries is to be championed in China through a unique trade mission which aims to open up valuable new markets for businesses in these key sectors. Taking the ‘Smart Cities’ concept as its theme, the November visit will give 10 Bristol...
