Specialist Bristol digital media agency Hybrid has received a £13m investment to continue to expand organically while also exploring acquisitions. Hybrid, which creates digital outcomes for clients, helping them to engage specialist audiences across the higher education and technology sectors, received the funding from leading mid-market private equity firm...
A student firm developing disruptive technology that will slash food waste in the education sector has won £10,000 to develop the idea. UK schools, colleges and universities throw away 150m tonnes of food each year, at a cost of around £250m – but the University of Bristol students behind...
Bristol’s innovative approach towards tackling food inequality, reducing waste and increasing urban growing has resulted in it becoming only the second city in the UK to secure Gold Sustainable Food City status. Awarded by the independent Sustainable Food Places Board, the accolade recognises work that also included growing the...
Bristol-based café-bar chain Loungers believes it will emerge strongly from the Covid-linked trading restrictions of the past year due to “significant pent-up demand” from the public to eat and drink in its laid-back venues again. The group, which operates 173 neighbourhood venues across England and Wales under the Lounge and...
Bristol-based specialist property developer Urban Creation has struck its first deal in Bath after spending £500,000 speculatively refurbishing a city centre building to provide state-of-the-art workspace. Pioneering Artificial Intelligence firm Cognisess has relocated to the refurbished grade II-listed office from elsewhere in the city to meet its need for a...
Bristol businesses are being asked for their views on the changing work patterns of their employees to help gauge post-Covid transport needs. Independent research has been commissioned by the West of England Combined Authority (WECA), which includes Bristol City Council, into the ways firms across the region plan to...
The Institute of Directors (IoD) is recruiting a new chair to lead its South West region as the role’s current holder Muir Macdonald comes to the end of his three-year term this autumn. The successful candidate will act as the voice for regional directors, working alongside a dedicated team at...
Bristol Technology Festival returns for its third edition later this year with the city hosting more than 50 events with themes spanning the breadth and depth of its growing tech and digital sector. The current plans are to hold the events in a hybrid model with a selection of...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has secured a licence for Glastonbury Festivals’ organisers which allows them to stage a 50,000-capacity show in September after the main festival was cancelled for a second year. The final Equinox licence contains all of the organisers’ requests, including noise provisions that will allow visitors...
The innovative Bristol tech firm behind the Limber app that links hospitality venues with staff seeking flexible shifts has amended it to allow workers to increase their hourly rate as demand soars. The feature has been introduced as bars and restaurants struggle to fill vacancies as they reopen from...
Investment by foreign businesses into the South West rose last year despite the pandemic in contrast to a fall for the UK as a whole. According to a new report by accountancy group EY, the South West achieved a 6.7% increase in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) projects in 2020...
West of England Metro Mayor Dan Norris is calling on employers to help increase the number of apprenticeships in the region. With an estimated £4m to £8m of unused Apprenticeship Levy funds returned to the Treasury each year, Mayor Norris is calling for apprentice levy-paying employers to give their unused funds to a new...
Two sewage and food waste-powered trucks bought by utility group Wessex Water will hit Bristol’s roads this summer, ushering in a transport revolution that could potentially slash greenhouse gas emissions and improve the city’s air quality. The vehicles, pictured, which follow in the tyre tracks of the firm’s pioneering ‘poo...
