A seminar exploring the pros and cons of EU membership is being staged by accountancy, investment management and tax group Smith & Williamson in Bristol next Tuesday. The event follows new survey results showing business owners are becoming increasingly worried about the UK leaving the EU after June 23’s...
Bristol-based customer experience firm Cxpartners is in the running for a national financial services award for its work revolutionising the Co-op Bank’s online profile. Cxpartners helped the bank focus on ethics, honesty and transparent customer experience in a move that has delivered dramatic results. The project has earned Cxpartners...
Experts from the Bristol Robotics Laboratory have won the Best Medical Paper award at one of the world’s largest robotics conferences for their pioneering work helping treat fractures. The team topped the category for their paper, which outlined how robotics can assist surgeons as an aging population means a...
Bristol Junior Chamber recently held its Spring Drinks at the Royal West of England Academy. Among the guests was recently elected Mayor of Bristol Marvin Rees. Pictured below, from left: Charles Chami, Vice President of the BJC; Oliver Brown, President of the BJC; Marvin Rees, Mayor of Bristol; and...
Bristol’s Royal West of England Academy is to stage Jamaican Pulse: Art and Politics from Jamaica and the Diaspora – the first exhibition of its kind outside of Jamaica. This important new exhibition – taking place from June 25 to September 11 – is a radical departure for the...
Bristol arts charity Knowle West Media Centre has won a £23,965 share of a £2.5m Skills and Opportunities Fund run by NatWest. The fund supports organisations in disadvantaged communities that help people develop, create or access the skills and opportunities they need to get into work or start a...
Bristol-based Amalgam Holdings, which makes large-scale models for luxury car makers such as Ferrari, Bugatti and Lamborghini, has been taken over by a major US media and tech company. New owner Motorsport Network said it would make few changes at Amalgam, which was launched in 1985, apart from renaming...
Confidence has soared among Bristol’s creative firms with more expecting to make higher profits and take on more staff this year compared to 2015, according the most authoritative survey of the sector in the region. Three-quarters say they feel more assured about their business prospects than last year and...
TEDxUniversityofBristol has secured sponsorship from Bristol-headquartered law firm Burges Salmon to bring inspirational speakers from around the world to the city. The TEDx event, entitled The Complexity of Simple Things, takes place on Saturday June 4 at the University of Bristol. Bristol has become one of the UK’s leading...
The newly appointed West of England president of accountancy body ICAEW is to use his term in office to support projects that prepare young people for work, create growth opportunities for all businesses and encourage the wider profession to do more in the local community. Duncan Stratford, a director...
BRAVE Enterprise, the independent, not-for-profit business advice organisation based in Bristol, stages a comprehensive programme of training courses and workshops. Using Social Media Presenter: Amy Morse Date: Thursday July 7 Time: 10am – 1pm Cost: £42 (inc VAT) By the end of this seminar you will understand the possibilities...
Bristol-based provider of NHS, private and specialist dental care Oasis Dental Care has appointed Liz Iles as marketing director. Liz, pictured, joins from Pukka Herbs in Bristol. Her arrival coincides with Oasis’ first national TV advertising campaign, created by McCann Bristol, which has been screened on ITV1 this month....
Bristol start-up TrueStart Performance Coffee, which makes the world’s only coffee designed specifically for the sports market, is to have its product stocked by retailer Holland & Barrett. TrueStart has signed a deal with the health food chain to put its coffee on the shelves of 231 stores across...
