A cider shop and a wine merchant will be among the first retailers at Bristol’s independent food and drink hub CARGO to open their doors this weekend as the area continues to become a magnet for discerning shoppers. The scheme at Wapping Wharf on the Harbourside is the first...
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 Juliet Gellatley, founder and director of charity Viva!, answers our 10 questions: What was the LAST: Film you watched? Last week it was my turn to...
A landmark office building on a long-derelict piece of wasteland in Bristol’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone has secured outline planning. The Anvil will provide 83,223 sq ft of grade A office space over seven floors on the boarded-up site on Avon Street. Described by its developers as “the workplace...
The UK could ‘self-harm’ from a post-Brexit attitude to foreign workers being encouraged by Theresa May’s government, former Business Secretary Sir Vince Cable has told Bristol business leaders. Leaving the EU could also have a ‘sting in the tail’ for those who voted for it thinking it would lead...
Conflict management expert Felix Spender has visited India as part of the country’s ambitious plan to develop ‘smart cities’ and help lift millions of people out of poverty. The former army officer, who launched his business North Light Solutions in 2011, met politicians, university representatives and business owners at...
Bristol’s future economic growth faces huge challenges because it is being held back by complacency combined with massive inequality, low productivity and poor infrastructure. The stark warning emerged from Mayor Marvin Rees’ first State of the City lecture, when he vowed to stop Bristol being a “city fractured by...
Creative firms based in and around Bristol dominate the list of contenders for this year’s Panda Awards – the ‘green Oscars’ staged in the city as part of the annual Wildscreen festival. The awards, which take place at Colston Hall on Thursday, recognise excellence in wildlife film and TV...
The UK’s first Festival of Leadership is to be staged in Bristol, with the city’s mayor Marvin Rees among its top-level speakers. The festival is the result of collaboration between UWE and the London-based Leadership Centre and will have the theme of ‘rethinking leadership for an uncertain world’. Its...
Regional construction company Beard, which opened an office in Bristol last year, has been appointed by the ss Great Britain Trust to build its new national Brunel museum. Beard is working with Bristol-based Alec French Architects on the museum, part of the £7.2m Being Brunel project, which will explore...
The president of the CBI has urged West business leaders to press for a ‘soft’ Brexit with full access to the European Single Market and to also counter the view that immigration is bad for the UK. Paul Drechsler CBE told the South West CBI annual dinner that he...
Members of Bristol’s business community were among around 80 people from across the South West taking part in the UK’s largest sleep-out. They bedded down in Bristol’s Millennium Square on Friday night to raise money for youth services run by Action for Children. Among businesses involved in Byte Night...
A Bristol-led team of building innovators is hoping to develop one of the UK’s most sustainable housing schemes in a suburb of the city. Plans for the 161-home development in Southmead – which would also help tackle the affordable housing crisis in the city - have been submitted to Bristol City...
Another Bristol independent food retailer is to open in the city’s burgeoning Harbourside food quarter Wapping Wharf. Biblos, known for its fast-food fusion of Middle Eastern and Caribbean cuisine, will become the latest arrival at the development opens its doors this winter. Owners William Clarke and Ariel Czackers...
