Two of Bristol longest-established, family-owned print businesses are to merge, creating a new design, print and digital communications business that combines 153 years of trading experience with the latest digital expertise and technology. Portishead Press, founded 43 years ago, will return to its home town from Bristol to join...
Ujima Radio’s youth programme development adviser Caroline Oldland and chair Roger Griffiths joined the Lord Mayor and Mayoress of Bristol at their official residence the Mansion House, Clifton, for an official thank-you to the local media. St Pauls-based Ujima, which broadcasts on 98fm, is Bristol’s urban music station....
From Bristol 24-7 A protest against swinging job cuts at the Bristol Evening Post took place in the city centre this week as staff at the paper marked the paper’s 80th anniversary at an exhibition. Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) were outside the Galleries shopping centre...
Engineering group GKN today reported a 19% rise in first-quarter profits, with its Bristol-based aerospace interests contributing strongly. The aerospace division, which makes wing parts for Airbus at its plants at Filton and Avonmouth, achieved a 13% rise in trading profits to £36m during the period on sales 5%...
Journalists will this evening stage a demonstration in Bristol city centre against swingeing job cuts at the Bristol Evening Post, the closure of its Saturday edition and the end of Venue magazine The protest, staged by the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and supported by other trade unionists, coincides...
A rare glimpse of economic growth this summer has been signalled by a leap in the region’s businesses’ output expectations, according to the latest business trends report by accountants and business advisors BDO. But the recovery will still be long and slow. The firm’s Output Index, which points to...
Bristol’s animation pioneers Aardman have turned Reggae Reggae Sauce founder Levi Roots into an animated character for his first TV ad, which launches on May 3. The ad features Levi cooking a barbeque in the back garden of a house in Brixton, singing the “It’s so nice I had...
Higher food prices pushed up inflation in March to 3.5% from 3.4% the previous month, according to figures today from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). It said the price of fruit, bread, cereals and meat had increased slightly while this time last year they were falling, triggering the...
Bristol-based Imperial Tobacco, the city’s largest company by turnover, has said it is ready to fight the Government over plans to introduce plain packaging for tobacco products. Imperial, whose UK brands include Lambert & Butler, Richmond, Embassy and Golden Virginia, says removing all logos and branding from cigarette packs...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com The Bristol Energy Co-operative, the not-for-profit group behind an innovative solar energy scheme in the city, is aiming to raise £90,000 by launching a community share issue later this week. With the support of The Co-operative Enterprise Hub, the scheme is calculated to generate 700,000kWh...
Prime Minister David Cameron this week praised Bristol’s Airbus workers after attending the signing of a deal to sell 11 of the aerospace giant’s A330-300 wide-body aircraft to Garuda Indonesia, the country’s national carrier. Mr Cameron, who was attending the Indonesian capital Jakarta as part of a UK trade...
West business leaders need to understand how smartphones are changing the way individuals engage with their products and services – or they risk being left behind by the competition. The warning came from Richard Hull, formerly of HP Labs and now managing director of Bristol-based software services company Calvium, in...
The Bristol Evening Post is to axe 20 jobs and close its Saturday edition as it continues to seek cost cuts against a background of tumbling circulation. Venue magazine is also being killed off as a printed title, becoming a 'digital only' product. The National Union of Journalists described...
