Leading figures from Bristol’s business community will gather next month for the city’s annual banquet to mark the Chinese New Year. Organised by the Bristol and West of England China Bureau, the high-profile event not only celebrates the most important date in the Chinese calendar but acts as a...
The founder of Bristol community radio station Ujima, a champion of the city’s business links with China and the first woman to become president of the Royal Aeronautical Society are among individuals recognised in the New Year Honours list. Roger Griffith, pictured, has been awarded an MBE for services...
The Bristol office of investment group BGF has backed wine brand developer and distributor Off-Piste Wines with £8m funding to support further growth – taking its total investment for 2019 to £37m. The office’s investment in South West firms since it opened in 2011 now reached £165m. While last...
Bristol integrated services contractor Mobius Works is targeting an annual turnover of £10m – up from £4.8m last year – as it continues to go from strength to strength. The Warmley-based firm is behind the design and fit-out of many of the shipping containers in Bristol’s innovative Cargo development at Wapping Wharf as well as high-profile...
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...
