Brunel’s SS Great Britain, Bristol’s most popular tourist attraction, is preparing to celebrate 50 years since it returned to its home city with a special programme of events. Little more than a rusting hull when it was towed up the River Avon and under Brunel’s Clifton Suspension Bridge in...
The Bristol publishing company behind a UK-wide series of eating-out guides is being wound up after hitting a cashflow crisis and failing to compete against digital-only competitors. Food & Drink Guides Ltd, based in Victoria Street, ceased trading five days before Christmas when all its 20-plus staff were made...
A new growth programme to support the growing number of tech start-ups across the South West has been launched by a team of experts in areas ranging from PR to accounting. Called Loop, it gives participants structured access to practical advice across a spectrum of business services, including investor...
Key players in Bristol’s night-time economy are being offered the chance to share their experiences and work together to promote the city’s unique and inclusive nightlife. They will gather on Monday evening at an event staged by Bristol@Night, the independent advisory panel featuring local people from pubs, bars, clubs,...
Schoolchildren from across the West of England are getting a chance to find out more about opportunities in the region’s tech sector as part of a scheme launched by Bristol’s Engine Shed innovation hub. The first of its Tech Tours took place in January when youngsters from Blackhorse Primary...
South West firms looking to explore export opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean will be able to find out about support from the Department for International Trade (DIT) at an event next month. The DIT’s national LatAC Roadshow arrives in the region on March 12 when experts will...
Bristol science and tech hub Future Space has appointed Laura Crocken Stevens as its new centre director. Laura, pictured, takes up the post after eight months as innovation director the innovation centre on UWE’s Frenchay Campus, which is home to 50 science and technology businesses. She replaces Marty Reid,...
Bristol will next week host the UK’s first major post-Brexit trade tourism conference, with more than 300 key industry players spending two days in the city for the event. The conference, organiser UKinbound’s largest-ever annual convention, will bring together delegates from the travel and tourism trade to hear the...
Entrepreneurial Bristol businesses ranging from a maker of biodegradable glitter to a designer specialising in digitally printed luxury silk scarves were among the winners in a business awards scheme that showcases the region’s ‘ones to watch’. Some 27 outstanding individuals and firms went head-to-head in nine award categories aimed...
The 2020 Ben Martin Apprentice Award, which aims to improve equal access to opportunities in Bristol’s creative and tech sectors, has been won by multi-talented creative and tech designer Okori Lewis-McCalla. The scheme was launched three years ago by Bristol youth empowerment organisation Babbasa in partnership with Bristol Media...
Bristol creative agency director Lee Nathan has been chosen as the new South West chairman of the FSB (Federation of Small Businesses). The 35-year-old, who moved from Devon to Bristol last year, has become the youngest FSB regional chair in the country. Lee, pictured, who has worked at Bristol...
The region’s largest business organisation has called on the government to ensure firms get essential support and guidance for life outside the EU as the UK today marks its official departure from the world’s biggest trading bloc. While the UK is leaving the European Union at 11pm after 47...
Bristol influencer marketing agency Fourth Floor Creative has appointed Robert Price, the former MD and SVP of home entertainment for 20th Century Fox UK, as chairman. Robert, pictured, spent almost a decade at the media giant until its takeover by Disney last March. Prior to that he was managing...
