The first businesses have signed up to support Bristol Giving Day, a new fundraising event aimed at boosting the coffers of some of the thousands of local charities and good causes across the city. Hosted by Quartet Community Foundation, the independent charity that works across the West of England...
A stretch of unused dual carriageway near Bristol promoted to film and TV production companies as ‘the road to nowhere’ has played a starring role in BBC One hospital drama Casualty’s explosive return to the city. The 400m section of road was built in 1974 as part of a...
Thrings corporate partner Graeme Fearon shares his take on artificial intelligence (AI) ahead of tomorrow’s Bristol International Balloon Fiesta Business Breakfast debate. AI is everywhere. Every Silicon Valley start-up worth its seed-funding seems to be working on an AI application to revolutionise your world, while simultaneously coming after your...
BRAVE Enterprise, the Bristol-based not-for-profit business advice organisation, is running a series of training workshops during September 2018 for those just starting in business and established firms looking to promote their goods and services. The workshops – which are held at BRAVE’s offices in Upper York Street, Bristol –...
Bristol’s pioneering arts and creative tech centre Watershed has appointed a new CEO and launched a new business aimed at boosting the city’s creative growth. The changes, which took place this week, see current managing director Dick Penny – who has led the award-winning venue for around two decades...
St Austell Brewery’s Charitable Trust has donated £10,000 to Children’s Hospice South West following the recent official opening of Bath Ales’ new brewery in Warmley. Since acquiring Bath Ales in 2016, the Cornwall-based brewery has spread its Charitable Trust’s operations into area to ensure as many people as possible...
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 Alex Hall, Maxine Bennett, a director at Bristol-based independent interior design consultancy Wylde IA, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? A...
More than 100 artists are exhibiting their work this weekend as The Other Art Fair returns to the city for a fourth time. Staged in The Passenger Shed at Temple Meads for the first time, it is aimed at a new generation of art buyers with a diverse range...
Bristol’s free street art festival Upfest has a larger area to showcase its artists’ talents when it takes place this weekend thanks to the support of a local developer. Firmstone Consortia One’s backing for the event, the largest of its kind in Europe’s, means it can extend further down Bedminster’s East...
Shareholders in leading organic children’s clothing maker Frugi have used expertise from regional law firm Ashfords and the Bristol office of national accountancy group BDO in their sale of a majority stake in the business. Frugi, which designs, manufactures and sells sustainably-sourced organic cotton apparel and accessories for babies,...
Bristol-headquartered national communications consultancy JBP is to move from its Clifton base – its home for 23 years – into the city centre as it gears up for further growth. The firm was launched in 1984 by Jennifer Bryant-Pearson with a single office in Bristol – making it the...
Bristol communications consultancy Purplefish has appointed Georgia Corp as an account manager to support its continued growth. Georgia, pictured, who has a master’s degree in Translation and Professional Language Skills from the University of Bath, joins to manage client and media relations and content generation. Her training as a...
This week, BrandSoup has been mostly catching up on back episodes of Suits. It’s as reliable an insight into New York legal practice as it is an accurate profile of the Duchess of Sussex. But it’s fun, there are some great lines and everyone is fabulously well dressed! One...
