Babbasa, the Bristol social enterprise that works to transform the lives of young people from ethnic minority and low-income backgrounds, has appointed six new board members to help drive its vision and mission. The individuals have been selected to assist with specific facets of operating a social enterprise as...
Business West is to mark International Women’s Day with an event celebrating the region’s female entrepreneurs and focusing on the importance of promoting gender equity in business. A panel of five inspirational women from the region will discuss a range of topics at the event on 8 March, such...
Precision measurement firm Third Dimension, which works with manufacturers such as Airbus and Rolls-Royce, is targeting further expansion as it prepares to relocate its Bristol base a matter of feet to a neighbouring unit. The move, which will keep it on the Brabazon Office Park in Filton, will allow...
Fast-growing recruitment agency Aligra has opened a branch in Bristol as it expands into the West of England for the first time. The group launched in 2007 with a single office in Swindon and has since expanded with branches in Andover, Didcot, Newbury and Hinckley, Leicestershire. Having achieved a...
Bristol businesses can benefit from free soft skills training following new research showing their importance in the modern workplace. Business West, the regional business group that runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce, has worked with the West of England Institute of Technology (WEIoT) to launch a new soft skills certificate with...
Twelve innovative tech start-ups have joined the acclaimed tech incubator SETsquared Bristol to accelerate their growth. The new cohort represents a range of sectors as well as creative uses of technology to help solve some of the world’s biggest problems – from improved access to healthcare and education to...
A group of Bristol investors is backing a firm developing innovative bioplastic food packaging from seaweed in a deal that brings its technology another step closer to everyday use. Sustainable biotech business Kelpi invented the unique compostable material to replace single-use fossil fuel plastics, which take hundreds of years...
Magmatic, the Bristol-based children’s travel products business behind the Trunki kids’ ride-on suitcase, has been sold to an international group of baby, juvenile and maternity brands in a deal handled by city-based national law firm Burges Salmon. Trunki inventor Rob Law was famously rejected by the panel on the...
Bristol businesses that have links with China will next week get the chance to usher in the Chinese Year of the Rabbit at a banquet in the city. Staged by the Bristol and West of England China Bureau as an annual showpiece, the dinner brings together firms and professionals...
More than 100 firms in Bristol and across the West of England have signed up to a regional Good Employment Charter which pledges to pay staff a Real Living Wage and clamp down on the use of zero-hours contracts. Introduced by Metro Mayor Dan Norris as part of a...
Bristol-based pioneering hand-tracking software firm Ultraleap is continuing on its mission to remove boundaries between physical and digital worlds by recruiting the former group head of TV product at Vodafone. Miguel Rodrigues, pictured, joins Ultraleap as senior vice president (SVP) of product from Kaltura, a video streaming company that...
Bristol-based specialist aircraft firm AERALIS, which aims to develop the first fully British military jet since the 1970s, is to work with aircraft leasing consortium AirTanker to drive down the costs of air support services for air forces across the world. The two have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)...
Limbs & Things, the Bristol-based medical simulator manufacturer, will be able to offer a wider range of products, such as mannikins for CPR training, to healthcare training organisations after signing a multi-million pound contract with a Northern Irish business. The deal with TruCorp makes Limbs & Things the exclusive supplier...
