Efforts to boost business productivity and increase innovation among West of England manufacturers have been highlighted by the area’s Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) at its AGM. The meeting, which went under the banner of ‘Our West, Our Future’, heard how the LEP is now delivering its Local Industrial Strategy to spur...
With less than a month to go until nominations close, Bristol directors are being urged to enter one of the South West’s top award schemes recognising excellence and enterprise. The Institute of Directors’ (IoD) South West Director of the Year Awards 2020 aim to champion the region’s outstanding leaders...
Bristol-based retirement village developer St Monica Trust is to expand its showpiece Chocolate Quarter at Keynsham following the acquisition of a further half an acre. The scheme, on the former Cadbury factory at Somerdale, will add around 36 more retirement apartments to the village. The brownfield land was bought...
The South West has emerged as the UK’s best region for women’s economic empowerment – outperforming other parts of the country for female participation at work and narrower pay disparities between the sexes. According to the latest Women in Work Index, produced by accountancy giant PwC, the region also...
Specialist PR firm Copper Consultancy has continued to grow its team in Bristol with two senior appointments. James Gore has joined as an account director after 13 years at Bristol Airport, most recently as head of government and stakeholder relations. James brings a wealth of experience in stakeholder engagement...
International Women’s Day has been celebrated since the early 1900s. Its actual origins are not known but it is attributed to a march through the streets of New York City in 1908 when 15,000 women turned out calling for equality, voting rights, and better pay and working hours. While...
A talented young Bristol filmmaker, whose award-winning productions have made it onto the international movie circuit, has joined PR and communications agency Empica as a videographer. Grace Fox, pictured, graduated from University Centre Weston in Weston-super-Mare with a first-class honours degree in Lens-Based Media and a raft of short...
Bristol semiconductor firm Graphcore, whose products are driving the machine-learning and artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, is predicting more global growth after banking another multi-million dollar investment. The latest $150m – from a group of major finance firms – takes the total invested in Graphcore since its launch in 2016...
Pioneering mid-air touch technology developed in Bristol is to be available for the first time commercially in a virtual reality (VR) headset for gamers. Ultraleap, the Bristol-based firm behind the world-leading technology, has signed an agreement with innovative immersive VR hardware firm Pimax, based in Shanghai and Silicon Valley. ...
Bristol’s International Women’s Day Big Breakfast celebration returns next Thursday, bringing women together from across the city and beyond. With 91 languages spoken in Bristol, the event will also celebrate the diversity of the city’s communities and the role women play in them with a host of speakers sharing...
Bristol’s wellbeing economics organisation Happy City has changed its name to the Centre for Thriving Places to reflect the fact that its innovative approach to helping transform society is now becoming increasingly mainstream. Happy City was launched in Bristol 10 years ago with the pioneering aim of demonstrating that...
Communications agency McCann Bristol has been appointed by Somerset cidermaker Thatchers to further build its brand as it aims to reach new customers across the UK. The agency will take an integrated approach across a range of communications activities, creating a new master brand campaign alongside tactical campaigns for...
Three Bristol-based projects have been recognised as among the world’s leading extended reality (XR) installations. Last year respected American business publication Forbes Magazine looked at the growth of XR, which combines real-and-virtual combined environments and human-machine interactions. It identified 35 of the world’s best projects that are using XR...
