Some of Bristol’s top businesses are backing the Lord Mayor’s Children’s Appeal Gift Gala to raise money for the city’s most disadvantaged children. The Gift Gala is one of several events in aid of the Appeal that runs through the year to raise money for clothes, gifts and food vouchers...
Bristol is growing much faster than predicted. But to make this growth manageable, and for everyone in the city to benefit, we must properly plan and control our own future. 2017 gives us an opportunity to do just that, argues James Durie, chief executive of Bristol Chamber of Commerce...
Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Suzy Barnes, director of creative agency Studio Diva, answers our 10 questions: What was the LAST: Film you watched? Rogue One. Although I loved the Star Wars...
The West of England’s world-leading aerospace and tech sectors have helped strengthen business ties between the area and the Spanish city of Malaga. A delegation from the aerospace systems cluster of the Technology Park of Andalucía has been on a two-day visit to the area this week to explore...
None of us exists in a vacuum. Throughout our daily lives we interact with other people – with varying levels of intensity. But always, we are working and living alongside people who influence us in a million different ways. Making the most of these interactions is how we can...
Professional services firm PwC has launched its annual West of England Business of the Year Awards – widely regarded as the region’s most prestigious. Now in their 29th year, the eagerly-contested awards attract the cream of the region’s firms with a winners’ roll-call reading like a who’s who of...
A law firm with a major office in Bristol has warned its staff travelling to the US to be wary of handing over details of their social media accounts and phone data to border officials. Clarke Willmott fears complying with this voluntary part of the US’s visa waiver programme could break data...
Bristol and the West of England should aim to become the UK’s first city-region to have full employment – but it must also tackle a huge social divide made worse by spiralling housing costs. The challenge has been thrown down to the soon-to-be-elected Metro Mayor, who will lead a...
Bristol-based financial planners and investment firm Paradigm Norton has been named the South West’s leading financial planning specialist at the prestigious Citywire awards for the eighth time. The Citywire South West New Model Adviser awards recognise the best fee-based financial planning firms across eight UK regions. Headed by chief...
Filming has begun at Bristol’s Bottle Yard on a new television show hosted by Noel Edmonds – his third at the fast-growing TV and film studios. Cheap Cheap Cheap which will be broadcast on Channel 4 later this year, is set inside an eccentric general store filled with weird...
Bristol-based Rosemont has dropped the word ‘recruitment’ from its brand to reflect its growing partnership role in the service it provides to candidates and companies. Rosemont Partnership, as it is now known, specialises in mid to senior management roles in the built environment. Founded in 2012 by managing director...
Studio Diva, the Bristol-based creative agency, has been named as a finalist in at the UK games industry’s most prestigious awards. The Queen Square-based firm will be attending the 15th annual MCV Awards on March 9 when it will compete against seven of the UK’s best specialist agencies in the Agency of...
McCann Bristol senior account director Sylvie Pender has joined an exclusive list of leading public relations professionals after being awarded Chartered Practitioner status. The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) awards chartered status to senior professionals who demonstrate an outstanding level of professional practice in ethics, strategy and leadership,...
