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 Rebecca Pritchard, head of Business Banking at Triodos Bank, answers our 10 questions. What was the last: Film you watched? Gravity – with Sandra Bullock and...
Bristol has been showcased as one of Europe’s top investment hotspots with the claim that is helping create a new kind of city for the 21st century. A gathering of major international investors in London heard that its creativity, innovation and independent spirit were pushing the city in a...
The £45m campaign to transform Bristol’s Colston Hall into a nationally important music venue has received a £5m boost from the Government. The funding was pledged by Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander during a visit to the iconic building. The regeneration plans for the hall – due...
Business networking group What’s Right is holding an auction at Bristol and Bath Science Park in aid of several local charities. The event, from 6pm on Thursday, is the latest staged by What’s Right, which has raised more than £20,000 for good causes. Bristol Rovers tickets, a round of golf, spa days,...
James Fothergill, the former development manager at South Gloucestershire property developer Terramond, has joined rival Change Real Estate as it expands its interests in Bristol. Kent-based Change Real Estate is progressing major mixed use developments in Bristol city centre at Sampson Court and Redcliffe Square – the company’s first...
Businesses across the West of England have the chance to shape the future skills make-up of the region by taking part in a new survey. The 2015 West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) business skills survey, which is now live, takes around 15 minutes to complete and will...
Monday 23 February Interim: Dechra Pharmaceuticals Finals: Audioboom Group, Bovis Homes, Bunzl, Greencoat UK Wind, HSBC, Tritax Big Box REIT, Unite, XP Power Trading statement: Associated British Foods AGM: Thomas Cook EGM: Velocys Economics: CBI reported sales Tuesday 24 February Interims: Ashmore Group, BHP Billiton, dotDigital, Green REIT, Just...
Deki, the pioneering Bristol microfinance charity, has officially launched its Bristol Businesses Against Poverty partnership with a plea to local firms to help it fight poverty in Africa. Since it was set up in 2008 by UWE undergraduate Vashti Seth, pictured, Deki has lent more than £450,000 to entrepreneurs...
Leading figures in Bristol’s media sector are training hard for a grueling 430km cycle ride to Paris to raise funds for local hospitals charity Above & Beyond’s biggest-ever £6m Golden Gift Appeal. The intrepid Bristol Media Team will join staff from a range of firms across the city for...
Michelin-starred chef Josh Eggleton has opened his second venture in picturesque countryside near Bristol. Working with his father Chris, the pair have transformed the popular teashop overlooking Chew Valley Lake, revamping into the Salt & Malt Tearoom and Fish Café. The venue, owned by Bristol Water, now includes a...
With businesses becoming increasingly reliant on the successful use of social media to grow, Barclays is staging an event next week highlighting some of its more effective tools. Called Leading in the Digital Age – the use of Intelligent Social Media, the event at UWE’s Frenchay Campus near Bristol...
Bristol creative and tech firms are being invited to hear some of the biggest names in the world of gaming and entertainment at a major event next week that will put the West of England on the global map for the fast-growing virtual reality industry. Leading lights from Sony...
Business West, the organisation behind Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Bristol Initiative, will continue to be responsible for helping firms across the West of England to export after being awarded the contract to run the UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) services in the region for another five years....
