Bristol-based ethical waste management company Waste Source has been acquired by national market leader Reconomy UK in a deal handled by regional accountancy firm Milsted Langdon. Waste Source was launched in 2010 to make waste disposal a simpler, cheaper and more effective process so businesses could reduce their waste...
Plans to develop a world-class ‘deep tech’ ecosystem in Bristol where scientists and engineers can accelerate ground-breaking ideas have been unveiled by one of the city’s most successful entrepreneurs of recent years. The scheme, led by Bristol-based chemist and investor Dr Harry Destecroix, includes an incubator, a £15m early-stage...
Six tech start-ups run by entrepreneurs from diverse ethnic backgrounds are to be supported under an innovative scheme run by acclaimed incubator SETsquared Bristol. Now in its second year, SETsquared’s Breakthrough Bursary provides bespoke business support, mentoring, strategic advice and coaching, investment readiness training and events as well as...
West of England Firms have slammed government financial support for businesses forced to close during the most recent lockdown as grossly inadequate. Some 54% of businesses that were shuttered during November – including restaurants, cafes and non-essential retailers – said the financial assistance covered less than a quarter of...
Consumer PR and communications specialist Wild West, which has an office in Bristol, has been certified as a B Corporation – the latest in the city to gain the status regarded as being to business what Fairtrade is to bananas or coffee. B Corp businesses must meet the highest...
Bristol design agency Phoenix Wharf has struck Gold for the second year running in one of its industry’s most prestigious competitions. The agency again topped the Best Hospitality Project category at the London Design Awards – this year for its work with ethical, accessible, community-oriented supermarket The Bristol Loaf. ...
A third of South West firms still do not know if they will be impacted by Brexit with less than four weeks to go to the end of the UK-EU transition period, according to a new survey. At the same time 46% are worried that Brexit could have a...
Bristol has been named as one of the best cities in the world to live in as a young professional. Luggage shipping firm My Baggage has placed the city sixth in its global league table, putting it among such well-established hipster locations as Amsterdam – which headed the list...
Bristol businesses have less than two weeks to give their views on the type of employment spaces, vital transport links and homes the region needs over the next 20 years. The West of England Combined Authority (WECA) has already received almost 1,000 responses to the survey it is running...
Bristol Zoo’s shock decision to quit its iconic Clifton site and relocate to the city’s outskirts has been supported by Bristol Chamber of Commerce. The 12-acre Bristol Zoo Gardens near The Downs has been home to the Bristol Zoological Society for nearly two centuries and is one of the...
National Friendly, the Bristol-based insurer, has stepped in to support city literacy and schools charity Ablaze with a new fundraising campaign. Under the initiative, the mutual insurer – a long-term partner of Ablaze – will use its influence to urge Bristol firms to contribute to the charity as well...
Bristol’s Tier 3 restrictions when it comes out of the national lockdown next week will have a “chilling impact” on its economy, with much of its hospitality sector remaining “frozen” in the vital run-up to Christmas, business groups and the city’s mayor have warned. Mayor Marvin Rees, pictured, said...
A Bristol firm on a mission to bring two-wheel electric transport into the mainstream has received a six-figure business loan to overcome the impact of Covid-19. EcoMove opened its flagship store on Hotwell Road in June as the first lockdown was eased to sell a range of zero-emissions electric...
