Bristol’s innovation in the green, hi-tech and creative industries is to be championed in China through a unique trade mission which aims to open up valuable new markets for businesses in these key sectors. Taking the ‘Smart Cities’ concept as its theme, the November visit will give 10 Bristol...
Firms have been urged to get involved in City of Bristol College’s new Partners in Business network to strengthen the city’s skills base and boost its economy. Launched on Tuesday to an audience of business leaders and company representatives, the network aims to help organisations improve performance, develop programmes,...
Bristol’s emerging role as a national crucible for tech innovation received royal approval this week when the Duke of York visited the city. The Duke, who has a keen interest in technology and knowledge transfer, met fledging and established tech companies on Monday when he toured Bristol’s recently-opened Engine...
Bristol’s Aardman Animations have teamed up with NatWest to launch a children’s smartphone and tablet app to help them learn about saving money. The free-to-download app, the first produced by a UK bank, includes a game that allows the player to be a boy or girl pig character running...
Gloucestershire Cricket has announced two sponsorship agreements as it prepares for its first season at the redeveloped County Ground. St Austell Brewery, which last year signed a six-year partnership to become major sponsor and the main supplier to its club bars, is to become a shirt advertising sponsor. ...
Bristol-based specialist engineering firm Mawdsleys BER is to expand further into the South West after acquiring a Somerset business. Mawdsleys BER, which has made and serviced electric motors, generators and pumps in St Philips since 2001, will use the Chard base of Somerset Pumps to extend its services into Devon,...
The director of the Centre for Sustainable Planning and the Environments (SPE) at UWE, Professor Katie Williams, has been appointed to a major Government body looking at the cities of the future. The Foresight Review will tackle the issues that will influence central Government thinking on where and how...
Bristol corporate advisers have helped the management team of a Wiltshire specialist charity fundraising firm complete their acquisition of the business. Chippenham-based The Woods Group stages raffles, weekly lotteries, response handling and fulfilment for major clients such as the RSPB, National Trust and Motability. The buyout, financial details of...
Property law firm Hoffman Male has appointed Rachael James as a trainee conveyancer in its Bristol office. Rachael, pictured, has a law degree from Swansea University, where she also took her legal practice course before joining Hoffman Male, which opened its office at Aztec West last year. Rachael, 22,...
Shares in Bristol-based Imperial Tobacco, Europe’s second-largest tobacco company, rose strongly yesterday following a pledge that it will increase its next dividend to shareholders by at least 10%. The global group said concentrating on its 10 ‘growth brands’ was beginning to pay off. These brands, which include Lambert &...
Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking, the division that supports mid-market businesses and large corporates, has further strengthened its West operation with the appointment of Daniel Tregunna as relationship director. Daniel will be part of the bank’s 25-strong Bristol-based mid-markets team, which supports a wide network of businesses with annual turnover...
Innovative West businesses working on pioneering research and development projects can apply for financial help through a £4m innovation fund launched today by the University of the West of England (UWE). Grants of between £25,000 and £150,000 will be available to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com Bristol City FC have become the first UK football club to install a ‘safe standing’ area in their stadium, more than 20 years after the Hillsborough disaster inquiry forced most grounds to become all-seater. A demonstration area at Ashton Gate with ‘rail seats’ that can...
