Engine Shed, Bristol’s innovation hub, launches a quarterly finance series on May 12 with a session aimed at entrepreneurs considering exiting from their business via an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Despite recent volatility, the public markets are still an important financing option for growth companies and an ultimate aspiration for...
Leading Bristol entrepreneurs, creatives and philanthropists have thrown their support behind the Old Vic’s fundraising drive for its ambitious 250th anniversary redevelopment. They are following in the footsteps of theatre’s original investors by snapping up specially minted ‘silver tickets’, each costing £50,000. Back in 1766, the original theatre was...
The successful Business Showcase South West returns next month to again celebrate the best of the region’s innovation, creativity and enterprise. The event, the largest of its kind in the South West, this year takes place at Bristol’s newly redeveloped Ashton Gate Stadium, meaning it will be even bigger. Delegates...
Specialist IT firm SciSys, which has a base in Bristol, has landed a £1.55m contract to supply the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) with its world-beating ‘cloud-hosted’ radio technology. The two-and-a-half year contract is the latest secured by the firm as it continues to bounce back from serious problems...
Bristol-based creative agency Caroline has enlisted the help of the city’s Oscar-winning animation studio Aardman to bring to life the star of its latest charity marketing campaign – a character called ‘Mac’. Mac was created by the team at Caroline to spearhead a campaign for The Macular Society, a...
The British Chamber of Commerce in Germany (BCCG) has launched a membership region in Bristol to support firms looking to do business in Germany. The launch event was staged at the city office of law firm DAC Beachcroft and was attended by a number of firms already trading in...
Public relations consultancy PPS Group has made three appointments to its Bristol team to support its ambitious growth plans. New team members are associate partner Ben Lowndes, account director Steve Jolly and Isaac Casson, who has joined as an associate. Ben, pictured, joins PPS after gaining significant experience of...
Three Bristol area firms whose products range from subsea technology for the oil and gas industry to waterproof covers for plaster casts and tea for expats have gained prestigious Queen’s Awards. Portishead-based Viper Subsea Technology and Precision Dippings Manufacturing from Yate have received their awards in recognition for Enterprise...
The Bristol Food Card – a scheme to incentivise shoppers to support local, independent retailers – has been launched ahead the city’s pioneering Food Connections festival. The project is a unique collaboration of more than 90 food and drink business from across the city – all offering promotions to card...
Bristol’s vibrant food and drink scene is to get a boost from a Bath-based independent retailer when it opens in the Wapping Wharf development on Harbourside this summer. Speciality coffee house and artisan bakery Mokoko’s new venture on Gaol Ferry Steps will be its first foray into Bristol. Opening...
By Jonnie Galvin-Wright. Above & Beyond business ambassador for the challenge – and managing director of Stuff Advertising in Bristol when he is not on a bike. Well here we are again. I say again as I am once more attempting this ride following its inaugural event last year....
West firms and business organisations need to collaborate more and embrace innovation to help nurture the region’s talent pool, according to the regional president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Speaking to more than 500 delegates at the ICAEW annual dinner in Bristol last night,...
Unemployment has continued to fall in the South West, bucking the national trend and pointing to a brighter outlook for the region’s businesses. But Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, warned the national rise signalled a slowing economy and could impact on firms in the Bristol area if...
