Bristol’s investment-hungry tech start-ups can find out how to get the attention of potential funders in a webinar featuring experts from the city next week. Staged by Bristol-based tech investment bank ICON Corporate Finance in association with Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon, the free event aims to show...
A company that started out providing electronic access to library databases and is now a world-leading identity and access management specialist is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Bristol-based OpenAthens was launched to commercially exploit single sign-on software originally developed by the IT department of the University of Bath. The team...
Businesses based at UWE Bristol’s Future Space science and tech hub are celebrating securing more than £2m in funding – most of it targeted at helping them continue to innovate through the coronavirus crisis. Some £1.3m of the money has come from Innovate UK, the government’s innovation agency, over...
Bristol-based architectural practice AWW, which has been responsible for some of the city’s highest-profile buildings in recent years, is to relocate its studio to an office conversion scheme it has designed. Pivot + Mark, pictured, on the corner of Baldwin Street and Queen Charlotte Street in the city centre...
The coronavirus pandemic has pushed up the number of profit warnings issued by South West listed businesses to a 20-year high, with those in the travel and leisure sector hardest hit. According to new figures from accountancy group EY, profit warnings soared by 73% year-on-year in the first half of...
An innovative way of dramatically simplifying the cost and performance analysis of cloud computing technology has been launched by YellowDog, the Bristol-based tech business. According to the firm, the YellowDog Index “brings order to chaos” by cutting through the complexity of comparing different combinations of processor, memory, bandwidth and...
The Future Leap, Bristol’s sustainable business hub, has reopened from lockdown with a new co-working space offering a home to businesses, freelancers and charities interested in developing the green economy. The Future Leap, operated by Bristol’s Future Economy Group, opened on Gloucester Road last year as a UK first,...
Practical ideas on how businesses can continue to support charities during the coronavirus pandemic are to be aired at a webinar hosted by Quartet, the community foundation for the West of England. The third sector is facing its toughest time for a generation with hundreds of thousands of people...
Bristol craft brewery Butcombe has teamed up with local food and drink branding specialists The Collaborators to refresh the look of its bottled beer, lager and cider to appeal to younger drinkers. The redesign means new branding for Butcombe’s Original, Gold, Rare Breed and Goram beers, its Bohemia and...
Bath Ales’ head brewer Georgina Young has been promoted to the role of brewing director for parent group St Austell. In her new role Georgina, pictured, will oversee brewing and operations at both St Austell Brewery in Cornwall and Bath Ales Hare Brewery at Warmley, near Bristol. Georgina joined...
Bristol has led the development of a new website connecting the global Cities of Film network, which it joined in 2017 to reflect its world-leading status for the moving image. Bristol City of Film, the group that brings together all elements of the industry in the city, led the...
Empica, one of the Bristol area’s longest-established public relations agencies, has been nominated for an industry award for its campaign to raise awareness of the mis-selling of pensions to thousands of steelworkers. The work carried out alongside its client, Bristol-headquartered national law firm Clarke Willmott, has earned it a...
Bristol-based human resources outsourcing specialist The HR Dept has promoted Felicity Kenny to become marketing director. Felicity, pictured, joined the company three years ago as marketing and franchise recruitment manager. In that role she oversaw a new company website and brand refresh, implemented new digital marketing platforms and improved...
