Bristol entrepreneurs are being invited to apply for a place on a free accelerator programme offering support, mentoring, networking and office accommodation in the city. Entrepreneurial Spark, which is backed by NatWest, will open the hub for start-up businesses from all sectors this summer. Applications are now open. Up...
Two award-winning breweries that merged last year are consolidating their operations onto a single new site in South Gloucestershire as part of an ambitious expansion plan. Combined Brewers, formed from the tie-up between Severn Vale Brewing in Cam and Chipping Sodbury-based Cotswold Spring Brewing, plans to more than double...
The West of England’s strength in innovation and its high quality of life are to be showcased in Westminster this afternoon when a giant map is unveiled. Compiled by the area’s Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), the map and accompanying policy document champions the area’s success stories and future opportunities...
The West of England’s most ethical companies have been celebrated at the third annual Fairtrade Business Awards. The Best Fairtrade Business Award went to Koolskools, the ethical school clothing and Fairtrade cotton uniforms firm. It was the second year running the Hampshire-based firm has won the top accolade. Other...
Specialist recruitment firm Matrix is rapidly scaling up its Bristol operation – taking its headcount from six to 50 – to meet spiralling demand in the city’s food manufacturing industry. Matrix, which has specialised in IT programme and project management recruitment for the past 19 years, has identified the...
Bristol companies are being offered the opportunity to attend one of a series of free workshops to help improve their digital presence and capability, and trade more effectively online. They will allow businesses to focus on the future of mobile, covering effective digital marketing techniques that can help give companies...
Businesses from Bristol’s environmental and low carbon sectors will gain an insight into the green policies of the political parties at an event next Thursday hosted by Low Carbon South West, PR and parliamentary affairs agency JBP and accountants Smith & Williamson. Bristol may be celebrating its year as...
Bristol is aiming to become a ‘city of excellence’ for customer service by training 3,000 workers in its tourism, hospitality, transport and retail sectors. Already signed up to take part in the exercise are European Green Capital 2015, which has pledged to train all its volunteers, and transport firm...
Ahead of this Sunday’s International Women’s Day, the Association of Women in Property (WiP) is this evening hosting an event to highlight the work of Concern Universal, the charity aiming to bring opportunities to communities worldwide and help to beat poverty. The drinks and tapas reception at The Lido,...
Landmark Clifton office block Embassy House is now fully let following the arrival of TV production company Endemol UK. The firm, which films its Deal or No Deal game show at Bristol’s Bottle Yard Studios, has agreed to a new 10-year lease for 5,176 sq ft (480 sq m)...
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...
