The West of England’s small and medium-sized firms are leading the UK for job creation with more than two thirds planning to recruit more staff and SME manufacturers are committed to investing in their workforce over the next 12 months, according to two new surveys. The upbeat findings, from...
Blue Badge Company, the fast-growing Bristol business that makes stylish-but-practical living aids, has recruited its 21st member of staff – two years after it was launched with just one person. Yvonne Bowman has joined the firm as it continues to reap the rewards of founder Ellen Green’s appearance on...
Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, welcomed today’s figures showing the South West leading the fall in unemployment – but warned that more needs to be done to get young people into work. Phil Smith, managing director of Business West, which runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the...
SciSys, the specialist IT firm with a base in Bristol, this week said it had ended a major contract which plunged it into the red last month and is now predicting a brighter future. Problems with the major fixed-price development project for an unnamed client pushed SciSys into a...
Bristol is aiming to become the UK’s first Internet of Things (IoT) demonstrator city-region in a move that could generate an investment of nearly £17m and help tackle the city’s poor air quality. The project aims to show how the IoT can be implemented on a large scale by...
Bristol-based sustainable travel publisher Sawday’s has travelled the ‘green route’ itself and relocated its office to the city centre. The business, established by Alastair Sawday in 1994 and run by his son Toby since 2010, was working from award-winning offices on the outskirts of the city near Long Ashton....
A unique sound wave sculpture designed by Bristol installation artist Luke Jerram and based on music by Philip Glass will spearhead the final stage of concert venue St George’s Bristol £5.5m fundraising appeal. St George’s has secured the support of the two world-leading artists to create the stunning sculpture...
Bristol creative communications agency Bray Leino has been appointed by Longleat to support next year’s 50th anniversary of the famous safari park. With 12 months of celebrations already planned to capitalise on the milestone year, the Longleat team wanted to bring in an agency to build on the anniversary...
Bristol software development consultancy Scott Logic has celebrated its 10 anniversary having gone from a start-up with three staff to a headcount of more than 180 across four offices. The firm was founded in 2005 by managing director Gary Scott after a successful IT career in investment banking. His...
The BBC must evolve to meet the challenges of an increasingly digital media landscape but must also be valued for future generations, one of its senior managers told West business leaders at the annual CBI regional dinner. Jenny Baxter, pictured, who as chief operating officer, BBC England, is in...
The region covered by the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has been rated as the best of the 39 LEP areas across the country for its record on business start-ups. Research by information agency BankSearch shows 5.7% more businesses were launched in West of England during the...
The Bristol office of accountancy and investment management group Smith & Williamson has hosted an exhibition of art shortlisted for the 28th annual Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2015 – the largest of its kind in the UK. This is the seventh year the firm has hosted the event. Clients...
Two Bristol businesses have taken central roles in helping the Government-backed Digital Business Academy launch courses aimed at enabling UK SMEs improve their profile and trade online. The courses are now live on the Digital Business Academy website – www.digitalbusinessacademyuk.com – designed by Bristol-based digital marketing consultancy Valuable Content....
