A full-size, futuristic house capable of being built on the surface of Mars is to be created on Bristol’s Harbourside in a pioneering collaboration between artists, scientists, architects and engineers. The house is the outcome of an ongoing public art project called Building a Martian House led by Bristol artists...
Bristol brand advocacy platform Duel, which helps brands nurture relationships with their advocates to fuel retention and growth, has secured £1.8m to further develop its pioneering artificial intelligence-driven technology and take on more staff. The firm, based at Runway East, uses cutting-edge machine learning and machine vision tagging technology...
Bristol business leaders have joined calls for regional politicians to urgently unite the West of England by allowing North Somerset to join its powerful combined authority. North Somerset Council declined to become part of the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) when it was set up in 2016. Bristol...
Commuters and visitors to Bristol are now able to hire carbon-neutral e-scooters to ride around the city’s streets as part of a year-long trial aimed at encouraging low-carbon travel. Initially, 100 scooters supplied by Swedish firm Voi will be available to hire in Bristol along with 50 in Bath – with...
A Bristol-based independent retailer specialising in clothing and zero-waste accessories made from bamboo has expanded into Bath. Mabboo, which operates a shop in The Galleries, has taken over a former Timberland outlet in Bath’s main Southgate shopping area. The 1,065 sq ft unit, pictured, stocks a range of T-shirts, watches, sunglasses...
A long-running Bristol-based annual conference for communications professionals working in the natural history, conservation and environmental sectors takes place next month with a fully digital programme of events. Staged for the past 16 years, Communicate is hosted by the city-based Natural History Consortium and has traditionally taken place over...
Bristol marketing agency Mr B & Friends has created a new brand and visual identity for email archive migration technology business Transvault as part of a wider business transformation programme. Founded 14 years ago, Clevedon-based Transvault has become the global market leader in email archive data migration. Working exclusively...
Bristol start-ups will continue to get access to national location data and expertise following city enterprise hub Engine Shed’s renewal of its partnership with Ordnance Survey’s innovation arm Geovation. Under the agreement, which started early last year, specialist data support from Ordnance Survey (OS) and HM Land Registry (HMLR)...
Bristol-based naval architect and boat design consultancy ENPLO has received funding to help establish its profile. The £15,000 loan, secured through regional alternative finance lender SWIG Finance via The Start Up Loans Company, is being used by ENPLO to provide working capital to cover initial repair costs and marketing...
Two new staff members have been added to the team at Bristol-based healthcare marketing and advertising agency Create Health. Polly Buckland has joined the 18-strong team as strategy director and Ollie Davies as finance manager as the agency, which creates global and national campaigns for big healthcare brands such as Thermo Fisher...
Bristol firms are being urged to prepare now for the end of the Brexit transition period on January 1 next year, despite many questions of how it will work in practice remaining unanswered. The government has launched a campaign for businesses with the strapline ‘Time is running out’ as...
Building contractor Willmott Dixon is using its work on some of Bristol’s largest construction projects to prepare it to become the industry leader in sustainability. The Hertfordshire-headquartered firm, which has a regional office at Ham Green, near Bristol, this week announced a series of ambitious commitments as part of...
Business West, the group that runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce, has welcomed the latest government job and self-employment support measures – but warned that many firms, including those in the city’s vital hospitality and events sectors, continue to miss out. The new support package was announced yesterday by Chancellor...
