The Bristol Food Card – a scheme to incentivise shoppers to support local, independent retailers – has been launched ahead the city’s pioneering Food Connections festival. The project is a unique collaboration of more than 90 food and drink business from across the city – all offering promotions to card...
Two of South Bristol’s longest-established industrial estates are to be refurbished after being acquired by new owners. South Liberty Lane and Brookgate industrial estates have, between them, more than 300,000 sq ft of warehousing and industrial space in 34 units. The estates, three miles south of the city centre...
The regeneration of the north side of Bristol’s Harbourside is nearing completion after more than two decades of development with the imminent sale of the former Canon’s Marsh Gasworks site. The parcel of land, which sits between Anchor Road and the Floating Harbour, is the last remaining piece of...
Bristol’s vibrant food and drink scene is to get a boost from a Bath-based independent retailer when it opens in the Wapping Wharf development on Harbourside this summer. Speciality coffee house and artisan bakery Mokoko’s new venture on Gaol Ferry Steps will be its first foray into Bristol. Opening...
By Mark Stone, financial planning director at Whitechurch Financial Consultants. The British love affair with DIY can be a mercurial relationship with euphoric highs and frustrating lows. When it comes to home improvement my efforts are more akin to an episode of Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em than that...
By Jonnie Galvin-Wright. Above & Beyond business ambassador for the challenge – and managing director of Stuff Advertising in Bristol when he is not on a bike. Well here we are again. I say again as I am once more attempting this ride following its inaugural event last year....
West firms and business organisations need to collaborate more and embrace innovation to help nurture the region’s talent pool, according to the regional president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Speaking to more than 500 delegates at the ICAEW annual dinner in Bristol last night,...
Regional construction group Beard, which opened an office in Bristol last year, is predicting strong growth this year as it builds on another record set of financial results. Pre-tax profits rose by 24% to £2.9m in the year to December 31 on turnover up 26% at £110.8m following a...
Unemployment has continued to fall in the South West, bucking the national trend and pointing to a brighter outlook for the region’s businesses. But Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, warned the national rise signalled a slowing economy and could impact on firms in the Bristol area if...
