Businesses operating in Bristol’s night-time economy are to take part in a high-profile campaign of zero tolerance of harassment of women, including expert training for their staff. The initiative, the largest of its kind in the city, follows shocking results from a recent survey that revealed 100% of women...
Bristol businesses are being invited to support a transformational skills programme led by UWE that will create opportunities in the green economy for young people from the city. Green Skills for Jobs and Entrepreneurship has been launched against a backdrop of economic recovery following the Covid pandemic and the demand...
International law firm Osborne Clarke has awarded a multi million-pound contract to workplace design-and-build consultancy Interaction to design its new flagship Bristol office. Bath-based Interaction, which has been behind a number of major office projects in Bristol in recent years, describes itself as on a mission to banish boring...
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 Oliver Jones, head of sales & marketing at National Friendly, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? With three daughters, that has to be Sing...
Fast-growing eCommerce fulfilment company Huboo is to become the main shirt sponsor for all five of Bristol Sport’s professional teams, including Bristol City and Bristol Bears, in a UK first for a sporting group. The ground-breaking deal, which takes effect from the start of the 2022/23 season, will make...
Fusion Processing, the Bristol tech firm developing cutting-edge automated drive systems, has appointed Nick Sturge, the former director of the city’s pioneering Engine Shed innovation hub, as its non-executive chairman. Fusion Processing’s technology is being used in a number of leading autonomous vehicle trials, including driverless buses, while its...
The Bristol firm behind the world’s first medically approved 3D-printed bionic arm has demonstrated its products to the UK’s science minister on his visit to the city’s science and tech innovation cluster. Open Bionics showed George Freeman the production space where its life-changing Hero Arm for amputees is made...
A new ‘cultural plan’ to boost a sector that contributes just under £2bn to the West of England’s economy a year by putting it on the map for national and international success has been unveiled. The prospectus showcases the region’s creative individuals – including its world-beating artists and games designers...
Bristol-based animation production studio A Productions has been shortlisted in a national award scheme for its work on the first Sesame Street animated special for HBO Max. Sesame Workshop’s The Monster at the End of This Story has been nominated in the Best Longform category in the British Animation Awards (BAAs),...
The first major event staged by the Western Gateway economic partnership takes place next month to bring together key figures from business, academia and local and national government on both sides of the Severn to explore the potential of the cross–border powerhouse. Called Green Growth within the Western Gateway, the day-long...
Bristol charity Aid Box Community is appealing for storage space as it struggles to cope with a huge increase in demand for its services triggered by a rise in the number of refugees and asylum seekers arriving in the city. Aid Box Community (ABC) has a hub and free...
Work has started on the £12m redevelopment and expansion of Bristol’s highly successful film and TV studio The Bottle Yard as it aims to attract more productions to the city. The work, which will add three new sound stages and is being funded by the West of England Combined...
The Bristol team behind the UK’s first female urinal has raised £250,000 in their first funding round, including investment from the co-founder of online bank Monzo, as they aim to pioneer ‘pee-equality’ for women. The PEEQUAL, invented by University of Bristol graduates Hazel McShane and Amber Probyn, pictured, is...
