Bristol-based customer relationship marketing agency Armadillo has grown its senior team with the appointment of Andrew Terry as head of strategy. In his new role at Armadillo, Andrew, pictured, who joins from global communications agency Wunderman Thompson, will work across its big-name brand clients, including McDonald’s, Disney, P&O Cruises...
A disused industrial space in a long-overlooked part of Bristol has been reimagined as a new cultural destination by a collective of city-based events and music industry specialists. The former torpedo testing site off Feeder Road, St Phillips, has been brought back to life as Propyard for a summer...
Bristol firms are being urged to remain cautious about easing Covid-related measures too quickly as the country prepares for most legal restrictions to be lifted on Monday. With infection rates rising again across the area, the city council is encouraging residents to avoid crowded areas, if possible, and to...
Two Bristol film industry companies are in the running for prestigious Daytime Emmy Awards this weekend as part of the team behind the first-ever animated special to emerge from iconic kids’ TV programme Sesame Street. Independent animation production studio A Productions worked on The Monster at the End of This Story, pictured, and...
Resource Futures, the independent environmental consultancy based in Bristol, has been recognised as one the best firms in the world for sustainable business practices. The employee-owned consultancy’s ethical stance, which prioritises people, communities and the planet, gained it B Corp certification five years ago. Now it has been named...
Marketing agency McCann Bristol has won four highly coveted Lion awards at the advertising industry’s most prestigious global event, the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The agency received a Silver and three Bronze accolades for its GoAbility campaign with Motability Operations, which operates the Motability scheme for people...
The West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has appointed civil engineer Richard Bonner as its new chair, replacing Prof Steve West, who has been in the role since 2017. Richard, pictured, joined the LEP board two years ago and also served on the West of England Economic Recovery...
Two University of Bristol alumni are about to launch a friend-finding app that links up like-minded strangers. Fethr was born during the first lockdown when Julian Issa and Miguel Bravo, who first met while studying at the university, were sharing a London flat. Discussing loneliness with fellow flatmate and...
The University of Bristol has won two major sustainability awards – for its policies on ethical trade and eradicating waste - in the space of a week. The university, which has 20,300 students and nearly 8,000 staff, aims to be carbon neutral by 2030. It is one of just...
Bristol’s food and drink entrepreneurs are now able to get free business and technical support to help them set-up or run their businesses under a new scheme. The West of England Combined Authority (WECA) has teamed up with regional industry-run group Food WorksSW to launch the Food Enterprise Support...
Bristol-based games developer Opposable Games is to help stage courses in gaming software, digital marketing, data science, AI and user experience to help train more people for work in the region’s growing digital and creative businesses. Recruitment for the courses, created by Next Generation, Bath Spa University and UWE Bristol...
Bristol-based ethical lender Triodos Bank UK has been named as Best Savings Provider in a top finance industry award scheme – proving, it said, the growing demand for sustainable banking. Triodos landed the title at the at the British Bank Awards 2021 as well as being highly commended in...
An off-market property app that promises to give house hunters control of their search rather relying in websites or estate agents has launched in Bristol. Co-founded by former Bristol Bears rugby player Danny Gray, Zump aims to transform the process of buying or selling a property by tackling many...
