A luxury addition has been made to the Marco Pierre White Steakhouse Bar & Grill in Congresbury following the official opening of a £200,000 garden room. A special launch event for the new venue was held with Miss Bristol International Gabriella Papp cutting the ribbon to mark the occasion....
Bristol has been named as the UK’s European City of Sport for 2017 – a year-long celebration of the part sport plays in every aspect of life across its many and diverse communities. The prestigious award was secured by the new Bristol Partnership for Sport and Active Recreation with...
Photographer Jo Hansford was at the International Women’s Day/Fairtrade breakfast at Triodos Bank’s Bristol head office which brought together 25 of the city’s leading women from a wide range of organisations.
Twenty-five of Bristol’s leading women sat down for breakfast and stood up for farmers at a special Fairtrade breakfast to celebrate International Women’s Day. The women were joined by Ana Maria Gonzalez, a coffee farmer with the Fairtrade SOPPEXXCA Co-op in Nicaragua. The event, staged at ethical bank Triodos’...
Bristol’s start-ups and young entrepreneurial businesses can book themselves onto a flight path for growth across the UK and into Europe under a new scheme launched this week offering free airline tickets. Seats for Start Ups – a partnership between bmi regional, Bristol’s award-winning Engine Shed innovation hub and...
The Bristol-based firm behind the top-selling Trunki child’s ride-on suitcases has lost its long-running legal battle with a rival to protect its design. Five Supreme Court judges analysed a dispute between Magmatic, which makes Trunki, and PMS International, which sells Kiddee Case luggage, at a hearing last November. Magmatic...
Somerset-based luxury fashion brand Mulberry has appointed former Dyson Group finance chief Neil Ritchie as group finance director as it continues on its recovery from several loss-making years. Mr Ritchie takes up his new role at the group, best known for its designer leather bags, on May 16. Existing...
Bristol’s burgeoning television industry and its home-grown talent swept the board at this year’s Royal Television Society West of England Awards. The glittering gala ceremony staged in the Old Vic highlighted the wealth of small-screen creativity in the city – from those in front of and behind the camera...
Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week, Kyle Hannan, founder and managing director of the Ecomedia Collective CIC, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Deadpool. A superhero film...
An ambitious 25-year vision for Bristol’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone has been unveiled with the potential to create thousands of jobs – but its launch has been overshadowed by a political row over a possible delay to the city’s proposed £92m arena. The city council ‘framework’ – which sets...
Nick Sturge, the director of Bristol’s Engine Shed enterprise hub, and Bristol Webstart accelerator founder Mike Jackson have been named among Britain’s 100 most successful philanthropists, investors, mentors and advisors. The two appear on the list drawn up by Maserati and the Centre for Entrepreneurs to recognise entrepreneurs who...
Bristol-based Neighbourly – the social platform that connects local community projects with companies that want to make a difference – has appointed Steve Haines as head of community engagement. Steve, pictured, will play a key role in managing Neighbourly’s relationships with public bodies and third sector groups, and advising...
Women broadcasters from award-winning Bristol radio station BCfm 93.2 will celebrate International Woman’s Day next Tuesday with 12 hours of broadcasting. The community station’s flagship morning show ‘One Love Breakfast’, which starts at 7am, will hand over to the all-female presenters from 8am and every programme after will be...
