Thatchers Cider has brought in Father Ted director Declan Lowney for the latest TV and cinema advertising campaign for its flagship brand Thatchers Gold. Designed to convey the Thatcher Family’s utterly uncompromising commitment to the quality of their cider, the humorous campaign is the second phase of Thatchers’ What Cider’s Supposed to Taste...
Bristol Media, the industry-led organisation which promotes growth in the city’s creative sector through collaboration, has appointed technology entrepreneur Dominic Mills to its board of directors. Dominic, pictured, is chief technology officer at Zone, the digital agency with clients including Aviva, Electrolux, Stagecoach and Maersk. He brings with him...
Immediate Media, the Radio Times publisher with a major office in Bristol, has launched In The Moment, a monthly print magazine dedicated to helping women make the most of every day with mindfulness, creativity and wellbeing. Immediate said the 116-page magazine, which went on sale last week, will embrace...
BRAVE Enterprise, the not-for-profit business advice organisation based in Bristol, is staging a series of business training workshops during July. Courses include: Blogging for Business Date: July 13 Time: 10am – 1pm This workshop is for anyone who wants to explore content marketing and blogging in more depth to...
London-headquartered TV post-production company Evolutions has opened its third office in Bristol just four years after setting up its first base in the city. The combined office at 1 and 2 St Paul’s Road in Clifton will provide additional capacity for the thriving business and follows last year’s acquisition of...
Bristol’s Bottle Yard Studios, where scenes for Poldark, Broadchurch and Wolf Hall have been filmed recently, has a new, more unusual starring role – as the base for the latest reboot of cult game show The Crystal Maze. Devoted fans were delighted to see the return of the iconic...
UWE Bristol is to play the lead role in the first major research project into the UK’s booming feature documentary film industry. The research, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), will be led by Dr Steve Presence and Prof Andrew Spicer from the university’s Digital Cultures...
Bristol’s successful CARGO indie retail hub at Harbourside could be expanded again with the addition of eight more converted shipping containers. Developer Umberslade announced the plan just weeks after officially opening CARGO 2, the second phase of the scheme at its Wapping Wharf mixed-use neighbourhood that is now home...
Bristol Airport CEO Robert Sinclair is to step down later this year to become the new chief executive officer of London City Airport. New Zealander Robert, pictured, was appointed CEO at Bristol in October 2008, joining from Auckland Airport, where he was chief financial officer. He has since overseen...
Regional law firm Michelmores’ Bristol office has been boosted with the arrival of Sarah Phillips and Matt Verrell as associates. Sarah, pictured, joins the firm’s planning team after nearly three years in an in-house general counsel role at Bristol property developer Urbis Living. She previously worked in the Bristol...
Monday 26 June Final: D4t4 Solutions AGMs: Amedeo Resources, Borders & Southern Petroleum, Curtis Banks, Denville Energy, Equatorial Mining & Exploration, Exiling Energy, Nostrum Oil & Gas, Phoenix Spree Deutschland, SEC, Surgical Innovations, Tehran Resources, Text Holdings, Warpainted London, W Resources EGMs: ImageNet, Phoenix Spree Deutschland Economics: BBA loans...
The UK’s first chat-based virtual assistant that can organise the busiest of modern families has won the ‘best elevator pitch’ at incubator SETsquared’s annual Tech-Xpo. The annual event pitches start-ups and scale-ups based at SETsquared’s Bristol hub against each other in a fast-paced battle. Kairo was one of 11...
Targeted campaigns aimed at attracting UK and foreign-owned firms to the West of England helped create a record 1,600 jobs last year. The figures, released by inward investment agency Invest Bristol & Bath (IBB), were announced by recently elected Metro Mayor Tim Bowles. IBB said more than half of...
