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 Mike Dodd, Bristol-based development director of impactful developer Socius, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched: The Banshees of Inisherin. A fantastic, if slightly unusual, black...
Bristol Airport bosses are looking ahead to a year of solid growth this year as a raft of new destinations take passenger numbers back to their pre-pandemic levels. The airport expects to handle around 9.9m passengers during 2023 – nudging its current capacity of 10m for the first time...
Fast-growing recruitment agency Aligra has opened a branch in Bristol as it expands into the West of England for the first time. The group launched in 2007 with a single office in Swindon and has since expanded with branches in Andover, Didcot, Newbury and Hinckley, Leicestershire. Having achieved a...
Two Bristol law firms and one of its largest financial services firms have been recognised as being LGBTQ+ inclusive employers by Stonewall in its Top 100 Employers 2023 list. Transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD), which has its second largest UK office in Bristol, appears in the list...
Bristol-based specialist creative education provider boomsatsuma is to double its capacity and create more than 20 jobs this year after receiving a £500,000 capital investment from Bristol & Bath Regional Capital. Boomsatsuma has been connecting students to the creative industries with its digital education programmes since 2008. It trains...
Bristol businesses can benefit from free soft skills training following new research showing their importance in the modern workplace. Business West, the regional business group that runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce, has worked with the West of England Institute of Technology (WEIoT) to launch a new soft skills certificate with...
Twelve innovative tech start-ups have joined the acclaimed tech incubator SETsquared Bristol to accelerate their growth. The new cohort represents a range of sectors as well as creative uses of technology to help solve some of the world’s biggest problems – from improved access to healthcare and education to...
The corporate team at Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon has advised on an $18m (£14.8m) fundraising for a fast-growing virtual reality (VR) training business used by some of the world’s biggest companies. London-based Gemba helps global enterprises such as Philips, Pfizer, Nike, Coca-Cola, Caterpillar, Johnson & Johnson and...
National law firm Clarke Willmott, which has an office in Bristol, has won a prestigious award from the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) for outstanding work its supporting members in the South West. The firm, which provides legal advice as part of the NFU’s range of member services, has been...
A new associate director and senior surveyor have been appointed to global real estate advisor CBRE’s South West property management team along with a new graduate trainee. Matthew Maxwell joins as associate director after 15 years with property management and building consultancy Workman in Bristol, while Angus McPhail arrives as...
Lawyers from national legal firm Foot Anstey’s Bristol office have advised the management team of a medical courier firm on a merger that creates the UK’s largest provider of specialist transport services to the NHS and local authorities. ERS Medical’s tie up with E-zec Medical Transport Services means the...
Bristol hoteliers are calling on the government to relax some of the post-Brexit regulations that have hindered their ability to recruit staff as they recover from the devastating impact of the pandemic. The Bristol Hoteliers Association (BHA) says the combination of Brexit and Covid-19 lockdowns has caused huge problems...
A group of Bristol investors is backing a firm developing innovative bioplastic food packaging from seaweed in a deal that brings its technology another step closer to everyday use. Sustainable biotech business Kelpi invented the unique compostable material to replace single-use fossil fuel plastics, which take hundreds of years...
