Creative/Media

Bristol Old Vic takes on a more sustainable role as it stages a powerful switch to solar energy

December 15, 2023
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Bristol Old Vic takes on a more sustainable role as it stages a powerful switch to solar energy

Bristol’s Old Vic theatre has become the latest historic building in the city to give top billing to solar energy as a way to become more sustainable. The venue – the oldest continuously working theatre in the English-speaking world – called in Bristol-based solar design and installation firm Solarsense...

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Year of growth for Ambitious ends on a high as it wins new accounts and signs on more staff

December 14, 2023
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Year of growth for Ambitious ends on a high as it wins new accounts and signs on more staff

Bristol corporate PR and communications agency Ambitious has rounded off 12 months of solid growth by celebrating seven new business wins and making two strategic hires. With the agency expanding to 27 staff and on track to meet its £1.65m revenue target, Ambitious has this year secured its position as...

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Lights, camera, action! Loan from regional fund sets scene for expansion of Bristol film school

December 14, 2023
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Lights, camera, action! Loan from regional fund sets scene for expansion of Bristol film school

A Bristol creative education firm has become one of the first businesses to benefit from a new £200m regional investment fund. Screenology, which offers practical filmmaking degrees, has received a £95,000 loan from the South West Investment Fund to fund the launch of a new course. The firm was...

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Planner who has worked on some of Bristol’s biggest regeneration schemes joins Nash Partnership

December 13, 2023
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Planner who has worked on some of Bristol’s biggest regeneration schemes joins Nash Partnership

Planning, architecture and placemaking consultancy Nash Partnership, which has an office in Bristol, has recruited associate planner Alexandra Egge in a move it said reflected its growing portfolio of projects. Alexandra, pictured, joins from Arup in London, where she led projects ranging from strategic mixed-use development strategies and masterplans to...

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Burges Salmon secures major UK acquisition for expanding US brand experience firm

December 12, 2023
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Burges Salmon secures major UK acquisition for expanding US brand experience firm

A team from Bristol-headquartered law firm Burges Salmon has advised a US-based brand experience business on a major UK acquisition – the latest cross-border deal for its corporate and merger & acquisition team. Moss, which specialises in premium graphics and custom installations for exhibitions and retail environments for clients...

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Bristol can lead the world in social and environmental change, says new Chamber & Initiative president

December 12, 2023
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Bristol can lead the world in social and environmental change, says new Chamber & Initiative president

Bristol Chamber & Initiative’s new president has pledged to focus on “community and green growth”, saying the city can be a global leader in social and environmental change. Dr Justin Morris, pictured, chief executive of Bristol Zoological Society – the charity that runs Bristol Zoo Project – started his...

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Big brands call on Neighbourly as they tap into the spirit of giving in their Christmas campaigns

December 11, 2023
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Big brands call on Neighbourly as they tap into the spirit of giving in their Christmas campaigns

Innovative Bristol-based giving platform Neighbourly has wrapped up a hugely successful year by partnering on three of the festive seasons’ top advertising campaigns. The firm, which launched in 2014 to match large businesses with local good causes, features in the Christmas TV campaigns of discount supermarket chains Aldi and...

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Boost for Bristol’s science and tech ecosystem as plans are unveiled for new £8.5m spin-out incubator

December 8, 2023
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Boost for Bristol’s science and tech ecosystem as plans are unveiled for new £8.5m spin-out incubator

Bristol is to get a new £8.5m incubator to nurture spin-out companies working in the fast-growing quantum, biotech and AI sectors – the latest in a series of hubs in the city aimed at creating the next generation of high-potential businesses. Called OMX, it will be opened next year...

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Sounds like success for Bristol animation studio as Sky snaps up its latest kids’ musical TV series

December 8, 2023
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Sounds like success for Bristol animation studio as Sky snaps up its latest kids’ musical TV series

Bristol animation studio A Productions has sold its pre-school series The Musical World of Mister Zoink to Sky – a major coup for the firm, which is seeking to develop its own content as a key plank to a long-term growth strategy. The series, which has been launched in...

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Bristol venues shine in top tourism awards – with city hotels and visitor attractions among the winners

December 8, 2023
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Bristol venues shine in top tourism awards – with city hotels and visitor attractions among the winners

Bristol hotels and leisure and hospitality businesses have swept the board in a raft of categories in the region’s top tourism awards. Winners at the Bristol Bath and Somerset Tourism Awards ceremony included Wake The Tiger, the world’s first ‘amazement park’, which landed Gold in the new tourism business...

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Bristol’s status as city for responsible business strengthened by latest B Corp accreditations

December 8, 2023
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Bristol’s status as city for responsible business strengthened by latest B Corp accreditations

One of the South West’s leading carbon reduction advisory firms and a Bristol hair salon have been awarded the B Corp status, taking the number of businesses in the city to gain the coveted accreditation to more than 80. That figure puts the city in the vanguard of the...

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Call goes out for submissions to South West’s most prestigious property awards

December 6, 2023
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Call goes out for submissions to South West’s most prestigious property awards

The prestigious property awards staged by regional law firm Michelmores are returning early in 2024, marking 21 years of celebrating the South West’s best property, development and construction projects. The awards – regarded as among the most coveted in the region – will also include a new category showcasing...

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Clarke Willmott Bristol team plays starring role in Irish group’s deal to take over former Empire cinemas

December 6, 2023
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Clarke Willmott Bristol team plays starring role in Irish group’s deal to take over former Empire cinemas

Ireland’s largest cinema company has expanded into Great Britain in a deal put together by solicitors from national law firm Clarke Willmott’s Bristol office. They worked with Omniplex Cinema Group on its acquisition of five outlets from Empire, the UK cinema chain that collapsed into administration in July. Under...

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