Members of Bristol’s business community were among around 80 people from across the South West taking part in the UK’s largest sleep-out. They bedded down in Bristol’s Millennium Square on Friday night to raise money for youth services run by Action for Children. Among businesses involved in Byte Night...
Regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming’s corporate finance and tax teams have chalked up new records on the back of a flurry of deals over the summer. Despite initial market uncertainties in the aftermath of the Brexit vote, the teams based across the firm’s Bristol and Bath offices have advised...
A new regional Prince’s Trust development committee has been set up by a group of leading business figures to help the organisation raise vital funds to support young people. The committee aims is to raise more than £1m during 2016-17 to go directly towards The Prince’s Trust in the...
A Bristol-led team of building innovators is hoping to develop one of the UK’s most sustainable housing schemes in a suburb of the city. Plans for the 161-home development in Southmead – which would also help tackle the affordable housing crisis in the city - have been submitted to Bristol City...
Bristol-based brand engagement agency Synergy Creative is celebrating after picking up two ‘best agency’ awards in the same week. The agency walked away with Best HR Consultancy title at the Chartered Institute of Personal Development (CIPD) People Management Awards and then collected Best Agency trophy at the Institute of Internal Communications...
An all-female line-up of local artists will pay tribute to Bristol civil rights leaders with an event presented by Ujima Radio at the city’s St George’s concert venue. Sisters With Voices, on Wednesday October 5, features singers, spoken word performers, DJs and a visual artist. It celebrates women today,...
Bristol-based creative agency Design Activity has won a prestigious international award for its work with supermarket chain Lidl. The agency, based at Wick, collected the silver Pentaward for its design of the packaging for Lidl’s Hatherwood Craft ales range. The Pentawards are exclusively devoted to packaging design in all...
Bristol-based advertising, design and digital agency Stuff has moved to a new office and continued its growth with a raft of clients and staff hirings. The agency has relocated from Mariner House in Prince Street to The Georgian House on Gas Ferry Road close to Aardman Animation’s HQ and...
Another Bristol independent food retailer is to open in the city’s burgeoning Harbourside food quarter Wapping Wharf. Biblos, known for its fast-food fusion of Middle Eastern and Caribbean cuisine, will become the latest arrival at the development opens its doors this winter. Owners William Clarke and Ariel Czackers...
Five firms from the Bristol area have been included in a prestigious league table of the UK’s fastest-growing privately owned businesses. Dental group Oasis Dental Care, catering equipment supplier Nisbets, recruitment consultancy Resource Solutions Group (RSG), building products supplier Taylor Maxwell and Yeo Valley, the yoghurt and dairy group, will...
Mohammed Saddiq, whose sustainable and innovative ideas have included Bristol’s pioneering poo-powered bus, has been appointed as the independent chairman of the Bristol Green Capital Partnership. Mohammed, pictured, managing director of GENeco – a Wessex Water subsidiary – has taken on the voluntary role and will chair the partnership’s...
Business leaders from Bristol and across the West of England will get their first chance to hear the views of the CBI’s recently appointed president and its incoming regional chair at the organisation’s annual dinner next week. The event is traditionally a high point of the region’s business calendar,...
Corporate finance experts from Bristol-headquartered law firm Burges Salmon have advised the shareholders of leading design and innovation consultancy Kinneir Dufort on its management buy-out. As reported by Bristol Business News last week, the deal to acquire Bristol-based Kinneir Dufort was backed by equity investor Mobeus. The Burges Salmon...
