Bristol corporate communications specialists AMBITIOUS PR has marked its 10th anniversary by relocating its office, recruiting more staff and winning new clients. The agency has also reshaped its senior leadership team to drive further growth and add value to its expanding client base. The move to Courtyard House on...
Bristol’s small businesses and their supply chains can get help to adapt to the new economic and regulatory landscape thanks to a £1.5m fund from the West of England Combined Authority. The Business Growth and Adaptions Grant, which opens for a second round of applications from 19 October, is...
The production company behind the hugely successful TV spy thriller series Killing Eve has set up a new development and production arm to make programmes in Bristol in a move that comes after a sharp rise in the economic contribution the film and television industry makes to the city. The latest...
Bristol City Centre Business Improvement District (BID) has vowed to continue to improve the area through innovative projects after securing a second five-year term in a ballot of its levy payers. The results, released this afternoon, show 79% of the votes cast were for the BID to continue for...
A social enterprise working to support a healthy, thriving community in South Bristol has been chosen as the first winner of a charity support programme launched in the city by digital marketing agency Noble Performs. Under the Noble Deeds scheme, which the agency’s North American parent company has operated...
Businesses have the chance to find out more about the work of the Bristol and West of England China Bureau while also celebrating the Chinese mid-autumn festival at a special event in the city next week. The event takes place under the theme of ‘All Under One Moon’ –...
Bristol’s legendary crocodile – said to be lurking in the River Avon at Hotwells – has been immortalised in the latest beer from craft brewery Butcombe. The firm claims it was inspired by the story of the illusive reptile when it was creating Tall Tales, promoted by the firm...
Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Urfan Ali, senior associate for Bristol-based youth empowerment social enterprise Babbasa, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Not quite a film, but just finished...
Areas in the West of England could become investment zones aimed at driving economic growth and unlocking land for housing under a scheme announced today by Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng in his mini-Budget. Businesses in the zones would benefit from lowering taxes and ‘liberalised’ planning frameworks, according to the Treasury. Mr...
Business groups covering Bristol and the West of England this afternoon largely approved of many of the measures in Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget – but the political reaction was less favourable. Business West, the region’s largest business group and the organisation behind Bristol Chamber of Commerce, said the announcements would...
Carbon emissions and unemployment have fallen significantly in Bristol over the past decade, according to a new report – but major challenges around social inequalities and poverty remain and are set to deepen as the cost of living crisis worsens. The research, which measures how Bristol is meeting the...
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng presented his mini-Budget in the House of Commons this morning against a backdrop of high inflation, soaring energy bills and an economy which, according to the Bank of England, could already be in recession. Key points announced by Mr Kwarteng, pictured, were: Chancellor says a new approach...
Bristol food brand Kabuto has become the first instant noodle firm to be accepted into the global B Corp network of businesses that put people and purpose on a par with profit. Kabuto, which was founded in 2010 and now employs a team of seven in Bristol, has sold more...
