South West law firm Foot Anstey has advised fast-growing media group Future on the latest in a string of acquisitions. Bath-based Future, whose titles include FourFourTwo, How It Works and Total Film, paid £23.5m for London-based Barcroft Studios, which operates a YouTube channel with 9m subscribers and 63m followers...
A Bristol tech start-up has launched the country’s first community-focussed lost property app as a way of reuniting some of the 50m items that go missing in the UK every year with their owners. Found, which can be used by the public and businesses, is the brainchild of Lance...
Bristol’s Bottle Yard Studios has attracted two more businesses as it strengthens its role at the heart of city’s creative and film industry. Award-winning kit hire and post provider Films@59 and live content technology specialist Loop Streaming and Productions bring the number of firms at the hub to 24. ...
The team at Butcombe Brewery are toasting their success in a prestigious awards scheme that celebrates the best of Britain’s bottle and canned drinks. The brewery, based at Wrington, landed two Golds in the British Bottlers’ Institute (BBI) Competition. Now in its 40th year, the contest is a blind...
A groundbreaking £6.5m project aiming to expand the use of creative technologies across the South West is seeking 24 people to explore the frontiers of data. The South West Creative Technology Network (SWCTN) is recruiting ‘data fellows’ to ask questions about the current state of data in the region...
YTL, the Malaysian industrial conglomerate, has vowed that its Bristol Arena scheme will give the city a “365-day entertainment destination” as it submitted the much-delayed project for planning permission. The firm, which owns Filton Airfield – where it is developing a major new housing and employment scheme – said...
Bristol creative agency and video games marketing specialist Diva has opened a new studio space in central Bristol after outgrowing its Queen Square head office. The 4,000 sq ft of loft-style workspace on St Thomas Lane, Redcliffe, will provide additional capacity for its fast-growing creative and client services teams. Diva, which...
Bristol and London law firm Temple Bright has advised Channel 4 on legal work linked to its new Bristol Creative Hub. The recently opened 3,200 sq ft office, in the historic Fermentation Buildings at Finzels Reach, pictured, will become a base for key creative decision makers supporting Channel 4’s...
Bristol-headquartered strategic communications consultancy JBP landed three awards at a prestigious ceremony to celebrate the South of England’s public relations industry. The agency, which also has offices in Cardiff, London, Manchester and Warwick, landed one Gold and achieved runner-up Silver status in two other categories at the regional Chartered...
Members of the South West Creative Technology Network (SWCTN), the £6.5m project to expand the use of creative technologies across the region, are to get free legal advice from Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT. Under the new professional services support programme, SWCTN members will be able to access legal...
Bristol tourist attractions will go head to head this evening with others from across Bath and Somerset in a major awards scheme. They are among a record 82 finalists aiming for gold, silver or bronze in this year’s Bristol, Bath and Somerset Tourism Awards. A further 15 companies will...
A campaign has been launched to encourage Bristol businesses to plant a tree for each member of their staff, linking to a wider ambition to double the city’s tree cover as a way of tackling air pollution and fighting climate change. If all businesses in the city took part...
Bristol innovation hub Engine Shed has appointed Marty Reid as its new head, replacing Nick Sturge, who has led it since its launch six years ago. Marty, pictured, joins from Future Space, the innovation centre on UWE’s Frenchay Campus which is home to 50 science and technology businesses. As...
