Fast-growing Bristol-based healthcare marketing and advertising agency Create Health has ended the year by recruiting three more staff. Ben Price joins as commercial account director and Tom Hunt as project manager while Matt Sugrim becomes the agency’s first in-house animator. Create Health, which works on global and national campaigns for...
The Bristol office of transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson has advised longstanding client Piper Private Equity on a £7m investment into a specialist villa brand. London-based The Thinking Traveller was launched in 2002 with seven villas in Sicily and today has 220 highly curated properties, including some of the...
Plans to develop a world-class ‘deep tech’ ecosystem in Bristol where scientists and engineers can accelerate ground-breaking ideas have been unveiled by one of the city’s most successful entrepreneurs of recent years. The scheme, led by Bristol-based chemist and investor Dr Harry Destecroix, includes an incubator, a £15m early-stage...
Six tech start-ups run by entrepreneurs from diverse ethnic backgrounds are to be supported under an innovative scheme run by acclaimed incubator SETsquared Bristol. Now in its second year, SETsquared’s Breakthrough Bursary provides bespoke business support, mentoring, strategic advice and coaching, investment readiness training and events as well as...
Mayor of Bristol Marvin Rees has joined the board of city-based natural history documentary maker Plimsoll Productions. The company said his responsibilities as a non-executive director will include providing strategic advice to chief executive Grant Mansfield and the board on matters such as commercial opportunities, talent, diversity and sustainability. ...
Four Bristol-based film companies have received financial support from Channel Four through its fund supporting independent production companies outside London in a significant boost to the city’s reputation as a vibrant and diverse creative centre. The fund, which was launched in October, provides financial assistance for projects underpinned by a...
West of England Firms have slammed government financial support for businesses forced to close during the most recent lockdown as grossly inadequate. Some 54% of businesses that were shuttered during November – including restaurants, cafes and non-essential retailers – said the financial assistance covered less than a quarter of...
Bristol businesses operating in the high-growth agri-tech and marine-tech sectors are being given new opportunities to break into overseas markets by virtually showcasing their products. Agri-tech companies can meet global commercial trade officers from 50 overseas markets on Tuesday at a virtual Meet the Market Expert event. Organised by...
Consumer PR and communications specialist Wild West, which has an office in Bristol, has been certified as a B Corporation – the latest in the city to gain the status regarded as being to business what Fairtrade is to bananas or coffee. B Corp businesses must meet the highest...
Bristol design agency Phoenix Wharf has struck Gold for the second year running in one of its industry’s most prestigious competitions. The agency again topped the Best Hospitality Project category at the London Design Awards – this year for its work with ethical, accessible, community-oriented supermarket The Bristol Loaf. ...
A third of South West firms still do not know if they will be impacted by Brexit with less than four weeks to go to the end of the UK-EU transition period, according to a new survey. At the same time 46% are worried that Brexit could have a...
Bristol has been named as one of the best cities in the world to live in as a young professional. Luggage shipping firm My Baggage has placed the city sixth in its global league table, putting it among such well-established hipster locations as Amsterdam – which headed the list...
Bristol businesses have less than two weeks to give their views on the type of employment spaces, vital transport links and homes the region needs over the next 20 years. The West of England Combined Authority (WECA) has already received almost 1,000 responses to the survey it is running...
