Marketing strategist Nick Beevors, who has worked on campaigns for Aldi, Unilever and Domino’s among others, has joined Bristol-based customer relationship marketing (CRM) specialist Armadillo as it maintains its strong growth. Nick, pictured, who joins as senior strategist, brings more than 15 years’ experience across the planning and strategy industry to Armadillo, which works with...
Butcombe Brewery has celebrated producing the three millionth bottle of its Rare Breed pale ale with a visit from farmer and Countryfile presenter Adam Henson, who collaborated with its brewing team to create it. Adam, pictured, teamed up with the Wrington brewery in 2012 to produce a beer that...
Bristol is the best place in the UK to film a drama, the executive producer of a major new TV series who spent four months shooting in the city has told its cast and crew. Douglas Rae’s Ecosse Films is behind the six-part drama The Trial of Christine Keeler,...
£3.5m donation from a trust set up by a successful businessman who left school at 14 is to help the University of Bristol create state-of-the art lecture theatres for future generations of innovators. The Bill Brown 1989 Charitable Trust made the donation to the university ahead of the development...
Dozens of Bristol businesses are backing the UK’s first contactless donation system that supports homeless people, making it the country’s fastest-growing project of its kind. TAP for Bristol now has 20 donation points around the city centre raising £150 a day. The money raised goes towards homelessness prevention services as...
Poku Osei, the founder of Babbasa, the innovative organisation seeking to tackle high rates of youth unemployment in inner-city Bristol, has been named as Person of the Year in a prestigious awards scheme. Poku, who is Babbasa’s CEO, set up the non-profit organisation in 2013 with the aim of...
South West law firm Foot Anstey has advised long-standing client independent children’s media company Silvergate Media on its acquisition by global giant Sony Pictures Television (SPT). London-based Silvergate’s assets include the 2019 BAFTA-winning Netflix children’s animation series Hilda and a 49% interest in a joint venture with Beijing-based Wanda,...
A particular problem with social media is that it blurs the professional and the personal, the business and the individual – there may be a clear commercial objective to all this tweeting and blogging, but it’s the authentically human voice that makes an account stand out. A business may...
Bristol Old Vic is crammed to the rafters this Christmas with a festive selection-box of treats, including a new cast for Charles Dickens’ timeless tale A Christmas Carol, returning following a record-breaking run last year, and the premiere of the full production of Anansi and the Grand Prize. Following...
The importance of having a strategic plan for business growth was underpinned at an event hosted by Bristol-based law firm Gregg Latchams’ In-house Lawyer service (IHL) and Bristol Business News. Called ‘Growing your business on solid foundations’, the seminar was aimed at helping the owners of start-up and scale-up...
Business organisations have welcomed the stability that the resounding Conservative General Election victory will bring – but question marks remain over the kind of Brexit deal a Boris Johnson-led government will strike. Business West, the South West’s largest business group which runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Bristol...
Future Space, the science and tech hub on UWE Bristol’s Frenchay Campus, has achieved record results in its third year of operation. During the year the centre, which is managed by Oxford Innovation on behalf of the university, reached full capacity with more than 50 businesses occupying its offices,...
A pioneering campaign to help firms in the South West prepare for life outside the European Union has earned a major national award for Business West, the region’s biggest business support organisation. Recognising that Brexit represents the single most radical transformation in the way that British businesses trade for...
