Sustrans, the Bristol-based transport charity, is encouraging businesses to help it shape its ‘Good Transport Plan’ for the city, which aims to cut congestion and stop the environmental damage caused by traffic. With snarl-ups costing the local economy an estimated £600m a year, businesses have a key role to...
The managing director of fast-growing Bristol-based R&D tax credit consultancy ForrestBrown, and app consultancy and developer Mubaloo are in the running for prestigious national entrepreneur awards. Simon Brown, who founded the business in 2013, is shortlisted in the Duke of York New Entrepreneur of the Year category at the Lloyds...
Bristol’s ambitions to attract more inward investment and boost exports were highlighted this week with the visit of trade and investment minister Lord Francis Maude. Lord Maude met a cross section of small and medium-sized firms and recent investors in the city along with representatives from aerospace giant Rolls-Royce,...
Cutting-edge power products manufacturer Powervamp has triumphed over some of the world’s biggest engineering firms to land a multi-million pound contract with Heathrow Airport. The Weston-super-Mare-based firm is supplying an undisclosed number of its specialist Sidewinder products to the airport over the next 18 months. Ahead of winning the contract,...
SETsquared, the globally recognised innovation incubator with a base in Bristol, has been shortlisted for a prestigious award for its work in nurturing a new generation of university entrepreneurs. The partnership of the universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey is shortlisted in the Higher Education Enterprise Champion...
Royal West of England Academy (RWA), Bristol’s original public gallery and regional centre of arts excellence, is invigorating its offer to businesses that are seeking to promote their brand and services, or are looking for a distinctive venue for hosting corporate events. “Great art continuously inspires. Great business leaders...
Smart parcel delivery box company Pelipod has relocated from London to Bristol and become a member of the SETsquared business incubation programme. Founded in 2013, Pelipod has created a connected, secure, unattended parcel box that uses machine-to-machine communications to transmit secure codes for parcel and user access; allowing both...
The three Bristol bosses who last month won prestigious regional Institute of Directors (IoD) Awards are in the running for national IoD accolades. Vashti Seth, pictured, the founder of international microfinance charity Deki, (Third Sector Director), Opus Recruitment CEO Darren Ryemill (Young Director), and Neil Way, managing director of...
Somerset family cidermaker Thatchers has appointed former CBI boss and trade minister Lord Digby Jones to its board as a non-executive director. Lord Jones, who was director-general of the CBI for six years, is a champion of British business at home and abroad. He is a regular – and...
Ambitious plans for a new international automotive research facility at Bristol & Bath Science Park were revealed today. The facility, along with more space for growing businesses and improved training provision for the UK composites sector, were announced by a newly created steering committee set up to deliver phase two...
Bott, the workplace storage equipment firm, and Devon Air Ambulance Trust have won the PWC Business of the Year Awards – the South West’s most coveted business accolades. Bude-based Bott’s CEO Clive Woodward received his trophy for the £30m-plus turnover category from Mark Beard, chief executive of last year’s...
Business leaders across the West of England have turned up the heat on the region’s local councils to work together to gain greater economic powers as the Government’s devolution plans gather pace. They pointed out that Chancellor George Osborne announced in his Budget this week that more autonomy will...
The first direct flights between Bristol and Nantes – officially two of Europe’s greenest cities – started this week as airline bmi regional launched its latest service from Bristol Airport. The twice-weekly service – flights are on Saturday and Tuesday – has highlighted the similarities between the two cities...
