Blue Badge Company, the fast-growing Bristol business that makes stylish-but-practical living aids, has recruited its 21st member of staff – two years after it was launched with just one person. Yvonne Bowman has joined the firm as it continues to reap the rewards of founder Ellen Green’s appearance on...
Graduate surveyor Josh Bryant has been appointed by national property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) to bolster its growing Bristol-based lease advisory team. Josh, pictured, graduated last year with a first-class honours degree in Property Investment and Management from the University of the West of England (UWE), which included...
Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, welcomed today’s figures showing the South West leading the fall in unemployment – but warned that more needs to be done to get young people into work. Phil Smith, managing director of Business West, which runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the...
SciSys, the specialist IT firm with a base in Bristol, this week said it had ended a major contract which plunged it into the red last month and is now predicting a brighter future. Problems with the major fixed-price development project for an unnamed client pushed SciSys into a...
Airline bmi regional is to put on extra flights between Paris and Bristol Airport this weekend to meet demand from French rugby fans eager to see their team do battle with New Zealand in the World Cup quarter final. Les Bleus take on the All Blacks in Cardiff on...
Bristol-headquartered law firm TLT has advised Wiltshire manufacturer Avon Rubber on its £3.5m acquisition of a thermal imaging camera business. Melksham-based Avon said Argus would boost profits and help longer-term product development opportunities in its protection and defence business, which produces innovative gas masks and respirators for defence and...
Monday 12 October Interim: Tissue Regenix Finals: Tristel, YouGov Economics: Treasury Budget Statement (US) Tuesday 13 October Final: Bellway Trading statement: Michael Page International Economics: ZEW Survey (EU), Consumer Price Index (UK) Wednesday 14 October Interim: N Brown Group Trading statements: Fresnillo, Marston’s, Domino’s Pizza Economics: Industrial Production (EU),...
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 Craig Davidge, managing director of Rosemont Recruitment, answers our nine questions What was the LAST: Film you watched? The Pursuit of Happiness (2006) starring Will Smith....
Bristol is aiming to become the UK’s first Internet of Things (IoT) demonstrator city-region in a move that could generate an investment of nearly £17m and help tackle the city’s poor air quality. The project aims to show how the IoT can be implemented on a large scale by...
A new £5m social investment fund has launched in Bristol to promote investment in charities, community interest companies and community benefit societies. The first of its kind in the UK, it has been developed and run by social impact investment company Resonance and sponsored by UBS Wealth Management. It...
Bristol-based sustainable travel publisher Sawday’s has travelled the ‘green route’ itself and relocated its office to the city centre. The business, established by Alastair Sawday in 1994 and run by his son Toby since 2010, was working from award-winning offices on the outskirts of the city near Long Ashton....
A unique sound wave sculpture designed by Bristol installation artist Luke Jerram and based on music by Philip Glass will spearhead the final stage of concert venue St George’s Bristol £5.5m fundraising appeal. St George’s has secured the support of the two world-leading artists to create the stunning sculpture...
Bristol creative communications agency Bray Leino has been appointed by Longleat to support next year’s 50th anniversary of the famous safari park. With 12 months of celebrations already planned to capitalise on the milestone year, the Longleat team wanted to bring in an agency to build on the anniversary...
