A Bristol-based entrepreneur is to create a new online marketplace where experiences such as art classes, drone flying and wild cookery courses at city venues can be booked or sent as gifts. Yuup, which launches next month, is the brainchild of Dominic Mills, a former director at Bristol-based digital...
Bristol’s burgeoning film and TV industry is marking a double celebration with the appointment of a new manager to oversee the city’s film strategy and recognition for its Bottle Yard Studio complex in a major regional television awards scheme. Laura Aviles has been appointed senior film manager by Bristol...
Bristol businesses are being urged to help make cancer care in the city the best it can possibly be as part of a new campaign which launched this week. Bristol Against Cancer has been started by Above & Beyond, the NHS charity for University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS...
The Bristol architects responsible for the much-acclaimed redevelopment of the city’s Southmead Hospital have won another top award – with judges praising the project for its “fantastic approach to health and wellbeing”. The Bristol studio of global architecture practice BDP’s design of the hospital’s new 800-bed Brunel Building earned...
More than 70 businesses and charities – including some of the city’s most innovative small firms – have been supported through the coronavirus crisis by a dedicated University of Bristol internship programme. The Covid-19 SME Internship Fund, which totalled more than £100,000, opened at the height of the pandemic...
Regional accountancy firm Milsted Langdon, which has an office in Bristol, has rebranded and launched a new website. The firm said the new look demonstrated its commitment to innovation and was built around its core values of helping its clients to thrive while also reflecting its high-quality advice and...
Bristol businesses looking to get cutting-edge ideas off the drawing board and into reality can apply for funding under a new scheme. The Business Innovation Fund – a three-year programme managed by the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) – will provide funding of either £20,000 or £50,000 for...
Bristol-based human resources outsourcing specialist The HR Dept has appointed Sam Ali as the managing director of its franchise covering the city. Sam, pictured, has already set the ambitious target of boosting revenue by 50% during her first year in charge of the HR Dept Bristol, Bath and North...
Bristol Media – the membership organisation that has supported the city’s creative businesses and individuals for the past 15 years – has rebranded to better reflect the breadth and depth of the city’s creative community. Now operating as Bristol Creative Industries, it aims to expand on its services to...
An all-Bristol advisory team of lawyers and financial advisers has completed one of the biggest deals of recent years in the UK’s fast-growing pet food industry, despite the challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The sale of Forthglade, the fast-growing ‘posh’ dog food brand, to IK Investment Partners (IK)...
Bristol ‘intelligent video’ pioneer One Big Circle is helping to develop a safety system to help prevent anti-social behaviour or emergencies on railway station platforms. Working in partnership with the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), fast-growing One Big Circle (OBC) has been awarded funding for the initiative – named Project...
Ultraleap, the Bristol firm behind the world’s most advanced hand tracking technology, has signed a multi-year agreement to integrate it into US tech giant Qualcomm’s latest virtual reality system. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR2 5G platform is the first in the world to bring together 5G and AI (artificial intelligence). It...
Firms in the South West are among the most pessimistic in the UK about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, with many expecting to shed jobs when the government’s furlough scheme ends, according to a new survey. The Lloyds Bank Business Barometer, which takes the pulse of 1,200 firms...
