Skills and opportunities for up to 3,000 adults across Bristol and the West of England are to be boosted under a new project. Future Bright is a £4m scheme being run by the West of England Combined Authority (WECA), working with Bristol, South Gloucestershire and Bath & North East...
Four Bristol firms have this week been celebrating winning the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, the UK’s most prestigious business accolade. The four very different businesses – Ultrahaptics, Ndemic Creations, Thomas Ware & Sons and Census Group – are among 230 companies from across the UK to receive the award...
Bristol robotics firm Open Bionics has launched the world’s first medically certified 3D-printed artificial arms for amputees. After working with NHS England on the first trial of a wearable 3D-printed medical device for children and young people, the firm, based at UWE’s Future Space innovation hub, is to now...
Professional services firm Grant Thornton has launched an innovative collaborative workspace in its new Bristol office. Introduced to the business community at its annual Faces of a Vibrant Economy gallery event, the space re-thinks the traditional office environment and provides groups with a modern and flexible facility to meet,...
Locked In A Room, the escape room venue operator, has relocated and upsized its Bristol outlet to bigger premises at Harbourside. The company has taken a 7,500 sq ft first floor unit overlooking Millennium Square, pictured, part of Canada Life Investments’ Harbourside development, on a new 10-year lease. It...
Bristol-based independent public relations and communications agency AMBITIOUS has landed a major national PR award – thanks to feedback from its clients. The agency, founded in 2013 by Bristol PR stalwarts Lis Anderson and Mel Beeby Clarke, was awarded Best Public Relations Agency (under 40 staff) at the RAR Awards...
Jaquar, one of the world’s fastest-growing bathroom brands, has appointed Bristol public relations agency Empica to support its marketing programme in the UK. Jaquar Group, which launched in India in 1960, now has a presence in more than 40 countries. It produces 24m bathroom fittings and delivers 2m bathrooms...
Bristol’s innovative Bloodhound project to build the world’s fastest-ever car is inspiring young people to pursue careers that use maths, engineering and technology, the region’s business leaders have been told. Nearly 400 chartered accountants and guests from across the business community gathered at the annual ICAEW West of England...
Innovative plans to develop Bristol’s latest co-working space by using 90 converted shipping containers have been revealed. The scheme, to be called CARGO Work, will be built within the walls of a former warehouse at Wapping Wharf, the Harbourside mixed-use development that has already become a hub for Bristol’s...
Mayor of Bristol Marvin Rees is to meet Channel 4 chief executive Alex Mahon next week as the campaign to persuade it to locate its new national headquarters in the city is stepped up. Bristol faces intense competition from rivals such as Birmingham, Manchester and Sheffield to bring the...
Bristol’s position as a world-leading development centre for Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) was underlined this week when its VR Lab officially opened its doors. The landmark new facility, in the Leadworks building in Anchor Square, pictured below left, has been operating for several months following a...
Empica, one of the region’s longest established PR agencies, has taken on its second new team member in less than a month with the appointment of Jo Laws as digital marketing and online manager. Jo, pictured, who studied Marketing Management in Cardiff, will head the agency’s digital team which...
Bristol tech pioneers who sold their last business to Twitter have received venture capital investment from two tech funds for their new company, which focuses on using messaging platforms to improve opinion polling. Poli harnesses the reach and immediacy of social messaging platforms to recruit larger, more representative panels...
