Bristol’s small and medium-sized firms should use the next two years to get ‘Brexit-ready’, according to the area’s business support service GetSet for Growth. The organisation, which has just marked its one-year anniversary, said the EU referendum result had already triggered an increase in the number of businesses seeking...
Clevedon-based engraving firm Brunel Engraving has completed a major contract at a new heritage site in Stratford-upon-Avon commemorating William Shakespeare. The firm produced more than 500 individually engraved bronze and steel items for Shakespeare’s New Place, which opened to visitors in August. The site, Shakespeare’s family home from 1597 until his...
The Lord Mayor of the City of London has praised Bristol’s business community for working in partnership to develop the city’s economy. Lord Mountevans, pictured, said out of the dozen UK cities he had visited this year, Bristol’s businesses had shown the greatest commitment to drive their city forward. ...
The Festival of Female Entrepreneurs returns to the West of England next Friday for its fifth year, bringing together some of the UK’s most influential female entrepreneurs, business leaders and brightest start-ups to provide detailed insight for starting and scaling a business. The jam-packed programme at the At-Bristol science...
A cider shop and a wine merchant will be among the first retailers at Bristol’s independent food and drink hub CARGO to open their doors this weekend as the area continues to become a magnet for discerning shoppers. The scheme at Wapping Wharf on the Harbourside is the first...
Bristol’s Bottle Yard Studios – whose recent productions have included Poldark, Sherlock and Wolf Hall – have secured a £692,000 investment boost from owners Bristol City Council. The capital investment, approved at the council’s cabinet earlier this month, will pay for improvements to the site, including new roofs, production offices...
Michelin-starred chef Josh Eggleton has teamed up with former Butcombe Brewery managing director Guy Newell and their families to take over a popular Bristol pub. The Kensington Arms in Redland is already one of Bristol’s best-known gastropubs. It will now undergo a short refurbishment to give it a more...
The UK’s largest and most prestigious collection of contemporary watercolour paintings travelled to Bristol recently where it was exhibited at accountancy, investment management and tax group Smith & Williamson’s offices in the city centre. Clients and guests were invited to attend a private viewing of the 76 paintings shortlisted...
Bristol upmaket bangers-and-mash restaurant and bar The Clifton Sausage is to open a branch in Bath later this month. The firm is to take over the city’s former Cow Shed restaurant. The 80-cover restaurant in a Grade II listed Georgian building on The Paragon will re-open under the Clifton Sausage name...
A landmark office building on a long-derelict piece of wasteland in Bristol’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone has secured outline planning. The Anvil will provide 83,223 sq ft of grade A office space over seven floors on the boarded-up site on Avon Street. Described by its developers as “the workplace...
The UK could ‘self-harm’ from a post-Brexit attitude to foreign workers being encouraged by Theresa May’s government, former Business Secretary Sir Vince Cable has told Bristol business leaders. Leaving the EU could also have a ‘sting in the tail’ for those who voted for it thinking it would lead...
Bristol’s future economic growth faces huge challenges because it is being held back by complacency combined with massive inequality, low productivity and poor infrastructure. The stark warning emerged from Mayor Marvin Rees’ first State of the City lecture, when he vowed to stop Bristol being a “city fractured by...
Bristol hospital charity Above & Beyond has launched a special children’s anthology featuring work by some of the best-loved writers of the past 100 years to raise much-needed funds for the city’s Royal Hospital for Children. Among the authors whose short stories, poems and illustrations appear in Don’t Be...
