The Engine Shed, Bristol’s focal point for innovation, has collected another award for its imaginative reuse of part of Brunel’s original Temple Meads station. The building, re-engineered by Bristol architects Childs & Sulzmann, topped the heritage category in the South West Built Environment Awards. Judges said it “demonstrated a...
Bristol digital marketing agency Strategy Internet Marketing has rebranded as Strategy Digital to reflect its evolved offering in a rapidly-changing marketplace. The firm has been helping clients improve their search rankings and sales conversions for more than18 years – since the earliest days of the internet and before Google...
Businesses have been supporting the city’s Big Green Week as momentum grows ahead of Bristol’s role as European Green Capital next year. Bristol Chamber of Commerce & Initiative, part of Business West, embraced the week by encouraging member firms to move sustainability up their agenda. And Low Carbon South...
West architects, design practices and planners will be thrust into the international spotlight next week as part of a national campaign to promote exporting. Members of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) will get the chance to showcase their talents in a Living Cities Challenge – an interactive...
Avonmouth specialist construction group Churngold is urging charities and community organisations to apply for funding to support projects that maintain or improve public spaces and buildings for community use. Churngold’s set up its Environment Fund in 1997 to help small groups in Bristol, North and South Somerset, Bath and...
Jonathan Miles, who works for OCS Facilities at Bristol’s Cabot Circus shopping centre, has been recognised in the annual Responsible Business Awards staged by HRH The Prince of Wales’ national charity Business in the Community’s (BITC). He won the South West Employee Volunteer of the Year title for his...
West firms are being urged to visit the UK’s first Export Fair, which is being staged in Bristol next week, as a first step to doing business abroad. Organised by UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) and Business West, the Export Fair supports the recent International Festival of Business, which...
Ambitious West businesses are being invited to bid for a share of a £200m investment pot – the latest phase of the Government’s Regional Growth Fund (RGF). Firms applying for round six of the RGF, launched this week by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, will be following in the...
West businesses making or supplying upmarket products are today getting an opportunity to meet buyers from China purchasing consortium Hi Lifestyle when they visit Bristol. Hi Lifestyle is looking for partners to help it satisfy ever-growing demand in China for high-end products, particularly those regarded as aspirational or with...
Bristol’s growing reputation as a centre for TV production received a significant boost this week when Disney’s ABC Studios confirmed it is to film a major US series at the city’s Bottle Yard Studios. Pre-production on Galavant – described as a musical comedy fairytale of epic proportions – started...
The number of businesses expecting to recruit more staff has almost returned to the pre-recession levels of 2007 new figures released this week show. But while the data is welcome news for job seekers, some business analysts are warning that it could signal looming skills shortages. The latest Business...
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Jaya Chakrabarti, the Bristol entrepreneur and co-founder of digital comms agency Nameless, has been awarded the MBE for services to the creative digital industries and the community in Bristol in the Queen's Birthday honours list. Jaya, pictured, who describes herself as a digital activist, is well known in the...
