Bristol-based independent brand consultancy Mr B & Friends has acquired FutureKings, the brand strategy agency with offices in Bristol and London, as it continues to capitalise on the rapidly growing demand in the small and medium-sized business segment. FutureKings was launched in 2016 by executive creative director Steven Anderson...
Female-led B Corps will be celebrated in a webinar next week staged by Purplefish, the Bristol communications and marketing consultancy that achieved the accreditation last year. The international B Corps movement promotes business as a force for good through its certification scheme that encourages companies to operate a triple...
Bristol PR agency Strike Communications celebrated its third birthday with a drinks reception for clients, media, friends and colleagues. Around 50 guests joined the Strike team – including MD Catherine Frankpitt and newly appointed creative director Scott Fletcher – at Browns Restaurant in Clifton to celebrate how far the...
Distinctive Communications, the Bristol-based full-service public relations consultancy aimed at place-makers, purposeful businesses and public bodies, has hired content writer Jasmine Gordon as it approaches the end of its first full year of trading. The agency was launched last May by Ben Lowndes, the former South West managing director...
Bristol firms need more help from the government in the face of stubbornly high inflation, including transitioning to more energy efficient sources and easing supply chain difficulties, the region’s biggest business organisation has said. With annual inflation unexpectedly jumping from 10.1% in January to 10.4% last month, Business West...
Bristol-headquartered PR and stakeholder engagement consultancy JBP Associates has appointed Simon Prescott, a former equity partner at national planning and design consultancy Barton Willmore, as senior counsel. In his new role Simon, pictured, left, with JBP executive director for strategic engagement James Hinchcliffe, is counselling JBP’s planning and development clients...
Major projects in Bristol aimed at growing the city’s economy by harnessing its strengths in key sectors such as net zero, creativity and advanced manufacturing re to be fast-tracked after receiving a multi-million boost. The city will get the lion’s share of government funding worth around £18m earmarked for...
Pre-tax profits at Bristol-headquartered ethical bank Triodos UK shot up by 18% last year despite what it described as “tumultuous times”. The lender, the UK arm of Dutch sustainable banking group Triodos, also increased customer numbers by 3.5% to 87,896 during the year while customer deposits increased by 2.1%...
Bristol Creative Industries, the membership network for the city’s creative businesses, has teamed up with youth empowerment social enterprise Babbasa to launch an internship programme. The scheme aims to offer six-month, full-time paid placements to applicants in roles ranging from advertising, marketing, design, animation and digital in many of Bristol’s...
Bristol-headquartered public relations agency Speed Communications has been taken on by leading UK holiday firm Haven to deliver consumer campaigns aimed at families seeking staycations amid the cost of living crisis. Speed has been tasked by Haven, which operates 41 family holiday parks in England, Scotland, and Wales, with kickstarting a...
Rob Chedzoy, tax partner at regional accountancy firm Milsted Langdon, believes the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s drive for growth has created interesting tax planning opportunities for businesses and their owners. Rob, pictured, said prior to the Budget, many businesses were concerned about the upcoming increase to Corporation Tax in April, when...
West of England Metro Mayor Dan Norris said the Spring Budget contained some measures that would benefit the region but overall would do nothing to unleash the potential of its businesses. “The hit to living standards over the past two years is the largest since records began,” the Labour...
Business West, the organisation behind Bristol Chamber of Commerce, welcomed what it called the return of a Budget that addressed immediate threats while including measures aimed at future prosperity. But it said the government must commit to providing the stability and confidence needed by businesses to invest and grow...
