Bristol Cider Shop is celebrating being crowned the UK’s top cider retailer – cementing its standing as one of the city’s top independent stores. The shop, one of the first dedicated cider outlets in the country when it opened on Christmas Steps in December 2010, won the Independent Cider...
Monday 9 February Final: Randgold Resources EGMs: Kofax, Tissue Regenix Tuesday 10 February Finals: Catlin, entu, Millennium & Copthorne Hotels Trading statements: Bellway, Cable & Wireless Communications, ICAP AGM: RWS Holdings Economics: BRC sales, Industrial production, Manufacturing output, NIESR GDP estimate (January) Wednesday 11 February Interims: City of London...
THE LAST WORD Each week Bristol Business News lets a prominent member of the area’s business community have the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Fiona Francombe, site director at The Bottle Yard Studios, answers our 10 questions: What was the LAST: Film you watched? Sliding Doors...
ClusterHQ, the innovative Bristol-based company pioneering cutting-edge technology used by software developers, has raised £8m from two US tech funds to recruit more staff and place its products on the world stage. ClusterHQ, formerly called HybridCluster and once described as among the most exciting to come out of Bristol...
Business West, the organisation behind the Bristol Chamber of Commerce and Bristol Initiative, has welcomed plans for greater collaboration between Cardiff, Bristol and Newport – but it wants the focus to remain on regional plans which are already in place. Bristol, Cardiff and Newport this week joined together under...
The innovative smart city initiative Bristol Is Open has received unanimous support from the city council cabinet, enabling the University of Bristol’s research and council-owned infrastructure to come together for the first time. As report by Bristol Business News last week, Bristol Is Open will manage the Open Programmable City...
Two Bristol engineers have been nominated for inclusion in a prestigious ‘hall of fame’ which brings together and celebrates the most inspiring and innovative figures in British engineering. Joel Gibbard, the founder of Open Bionics based at the Technology Business Incubator at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, and Mark Chapman, chief...
Bristol businesses can find out how they can get involved with the city’s year as European Capital year and benefit from the increased support and activity that is on offer at the launch of a new initiative next Tuesday. Low Carbon South West and regional business organisation Business West...
Work to clear the site for the future cinema-led leisure development in Yate starts on Monday. Yate Riverside will be anchored by a six-screen Cineworld cinema. Bristol-based contractor ISG will remove trees and shrubbery in the development area, an operation that will take around four weeks. The main construction...
Bristol Water today rejected industry watchdog Ofwat’s latest price ruling, which would have forced it to slash its bills, and said it is seeking a review by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Ofwat’s ‘final price determination’ for water companies announced last December proposed a 23% reduction in household...
Bristol firms are being urged to explore import and export opportunities with a delegation of businesses from Bethlehem when they visit the region next month. The trade mission is being arranged by Business West and Bethlehem-Bath Links, the Bath-based charity that is creating cultural, business, educational and sporting links...
Alderley, the South Gloucestershire-based advanced engineering group, has appointed Mark Colebrook as chief executive officer. He joins from GE Oil and Gas Subsea Systems for which he established and led its Subsea Services Centre of Excellence at Aztec West. Mark, pictured, who also joins Alderley’s board, has 22 years’...
The Bristol & Bath area has been named as the UK’s most important centre for the fast-growing digital industry outside of London. A major new report – called Powering a Digital Economy 2015 – says the area is home to a globally-significant cluster of innovative businesses and a hotbed...
