All businesses can harness the power of social media to help find new customers and enter new markets – but the key is to have good content. The message was highlighted by experts at a seminar staged by Barclays which looked at how to use some of social media’s...
Bristol-based plasterboard manufacturer Siniat has harnessed the marketing power of YouTube to launch a new product range to builders. The firm, which has a factory at Easton-in-Gordano, wanted to pitch its innovative range of metal partition frames called Bulldog against more traditional timber products – with a key part...
Barclays has become the latest blue-chip company to sponsor Business Showcase South West 2015 – the region’s biggest business exhibition which returns for a second year in May. Barclays joins First Great Western and Enterprise Rent-a-car in sponsoring the event staged again at Bristol’s Colston Hall. Following last year’s...
Bristol has been showcased as one of Europe’s top investment hotspots with the claim that is helping create a new kind of city for the 21st century. A gathering of major international investors in London heard that its creativity, innovation and independent spirit were pushing the city in a...
The £45m campaign to transform Bristol’s Colston Hall into a nationally important music venue has received a £5m boost from the Government. The funding was pledged by Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander during a visit to the iconic building. The regeneration plans for the hall – due...
Business networking group What’s Right is holding an auction at Bristol and Bath Science Park in aid of several local charities. The event, from 6pm on Thursday, is the latest staged by What’s Right, which has raised more than £20,000 for good causes. Bristol Rovers tickets, a round of golf, spa days,...
Deki, the pioneering Bristol microfinance charity, has officially launched its Bristol Businesses Against Poverty partnership with a plea to local firms to help it fight poverty in Africa. Since it was set up in 2008 by UWE undergraduate Vashti Seth, pictured, Deki has lent more than £450,000 to entrepreneurs...
Leading figures in Bristol’s media sector are training hard for a grueling 430km cycle ride to Paris to raise funds for local hospitals charity Above & Beyond’s biggest-ever £6m Golden Gift Appeal. The intrepid Bristol Media Team will join staff from a range of firms across the city for...
Michelin-starred chef Josh Eggleton has opened his second venture in picturesque countryside near Bristol. Working with his father Chris, the pair have transformed the popular teashop overlooking Chew Valley Lake, revamping into the Salt & Malt Tearoom and Fish Café. The venue, owned by Bristol Water, now includes a...
With businesses becoming increasingly reliant on the successful use of social media to grow, Barclays is staging an event next week highlighting some of its more effective tools. Called Leading in the Digital Age – the use of Intelligent Social Media, the event at UWE’s Frenchay Campus near Bristol...
Bristol creative and tech firms are being invited to hear some of the biggest names in the world of gaming and entertainment at a major event next week that will put the West of England on the global map for the fast-growing virtual reality industry. Leading lights from Sony...
Bristol firms are greeting positive economic news, such as the latest fall in unemployment, with “faint alarm bells rather than celebratory cheers”, according to the region’s largest business organisation. Business West, which runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Bristol Initiative, said politicians should now focus on the “significant...
A thousand Bristol firms are being challenged to ‘go green’ in the largest project of its kind ever staged in the city. Under the high-profile Go Green scheme, launched this week, businesses will play a pivotal role in making Bristol healthier, more competitive and more sustainable. But they will...
