A Community Interest Company on a mission to improve the lives of neurodivergent people in the Bristol area is the winner of the inaugural Micro Business Incubator Hub Competition staged by city-based creative business collective Istoria Group. Self Agency was founded by Devon Lowndes, pictured, with a vision is...
Bristol-based Mentor Digital has launched the first rewards app for the UK bowling industry – with more than 50,000 downloads taking place within four weeks. The augmented reality (AR) app, pictured, has been developed for Tenpin, the country’s largest bowling centre group operating nearly 50 across the country, including...
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 Claire Menzies, chairwoman of Bristol creative business collective Istoria Group, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? The Wisdom of Trauma – a documentary. The film...
The CEO of Loungers, the fast-growing Bristol-based café-bar chain, has said its trading over the past year was a “truly stand-out performance”. During the 52 weeks to 16 April the group opened 29 new sites, taking its portfolio to a total of 222. The openings included 24 Lounges and...
Organisations need a diversity of views to be relevant and effective, the former Director General of MI5 Eliza Manningham-Buller told West of England business leaders last night. Speaking at the ICAEW regional annual business dinner, Baroness Manningham-Buller, pictured, drew on her experiences leading the service through significant change, expansion and...
Amdaris, the fast-growing Bristol digital transformation and software specialist, has unveiled its redesigned and enlarged head office – calling it an oasis of creativity and collaboration. The firm, widely recognised as one of the UK’s fastest-growing tech companies, called in Bath-based workspace design company Interaction to shape its new headquarters in the...
Bristol firms are being urged to join more than 125 firms across the UK that have already signed a pledge to never support or promote blood sports such as hunting or shooting. The plea has come from West of England Metro Mayor Dan Norris, who is also chair of...
You may have seen TV coverage of the trial we are carrying out at our materials recovery facility (MRF) near Cheltenham, using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve the sorting and recovery of plastic waste. The MRF in question is one of six around the South of England at which...
A former executive at tech giant Google and global advertising agency McCann has been appointed digital marketing director at Bristol agency Mentor Digital. Dan Watt, pictured, brings a wealth of experience to Mentor Digital’s team having worked as a senior strategist at Google and as managing partner at McCann. ...
Ten senior staff at fast-growing Bristol eCommerce agency The Pixel, which boasts a blue-chip client base that includes Screwfix, JoJo Maman Bébé and The National Trust, have become co-owners of the business in a management buy-out (MBO). The move provides leadership team continuity and further strengthens the market proposition to...
Bristol-based digital learning specialist LearnSci has become one of the first firms to win a newly named King’s Award for Enterprise for its innovation. LearnSci was launched in 2007 with a mission to transform science education and empower teaching professionals to inspire the next generation of STEM graduates. It...
Bristol Junior Chamber has kicked off its 75th anniversary year with its first-ever all-female leadership team. The group was founded in 1948 to promote trade, commerce and industry in the city and provide its members with professional networking and skills development opportunities. Since then it has been involved in...
A team from the Bristol office of international law firm Osborne Clarke has advised the University of Bristol on its new £500m Temple Quarter Campus, work on which is about to start in earnest. Opening in 2026, the campus next to Temple Meads Station on Cattle Market Road, will...
