Bristol-based healthcare marketing and advertising agency Create Health has joined the world’s largest independent advertising and marketing agency network. Thenetworkone provides independent agency owners and senior directors with the opportunity to network, share and learn through workshops, global conferences and specialist publications. Create Health managing director Ed Hudson said...
Boosting skills and developing the physical and digital infrastructure will be vital for South West to build back better from the economic ravages of coronavirus, the CBI said today in a major new report. Called Reviving Regions, the paper highlights long-standing regional inequalities across England which have inhibited growth, opportunity and...
Bristol’s burgeoning business links with China are to be mapped for the first time in a major research project. The Bristol and Bath Chinese Ecosystem Analysis, which will be published next spring, will track all business, investment and academic connections between the area region and China, offering a definitive...
Two pioneering Bristol tech entrepreneurs have made a significant investment in city-based ‘intelligent video’ and AI innovator One Big Circle to prepare it for a new phase of rapid growth. David Harris and Toby Hughes have also joined One Big Circle’s board as executive chairman and non-executive director respectively as...
Craft brewery and pub chain Butcombe has exchanged contracts to acquire a group of 21 pubs, extending its portfolio across the South of England and into the West Midlands for the first time. Butcombe, based at Wrington, is buying the pubs – many of them historic inns with strong...
Bristol firms trading in Europe have been told that it is ‘almost too late’ if they have not planned for a worst case scenario following the end of the Brexit transition on January 1. The 50-day countdown to that date was on Wednesday and Business West, the region’s largest...
Integrated communications agency Social has promoted Ben Lowndes to managing director of its South West business following another year of growth for its Bristol office and its wider group of companies. The move comes as the agency completes another year of profitable growth during which its turnover has risen to...
Hydrock, the Bristol-based multi-disciplinary engineering, energy and sustainability consultancy, has appointed former KPMG partner Ronnie McCombe as its non-executive chairman. Ronnie, pictured, will work with Hydrock’s board to drive forward the next stage of the company’s growth, drawing on his wide experience of working with innovative and fast-growth companies...
The Covid pandemic has reduced levels of economic activity across the UK this year. Households and businesses have generally been spending and investing less than they were before the pandemic struck. This fall in spending and investment risks significant job losses as many businesses face much lower demand for...
Bristol Airport has been given a major boost by Jet2, the UK’s third largest airline, which from next year will make the airport its 10th base and launch flights to 33 destinations. Jet2, which does not currently operate from Bristol, will also create more than 200 jobs at the airport...
Bristol businesses are being urged to join a new group which launched today to help make the city carbon neutral within 10 years by sharing experiences and best practice. Fifteen leading organisations from across the city have already signed to become members of the Climate Leaders Group, ranging from...
Bristol law firm Gregg Latchams, one of the UK’s oldest surviving legal practices, has unveiled a new look and new name – GL Law – to reflect its new way of working in the rapidly changing legal market. The change is part of a major rebrand for the firm...
Chamber of Commerce has said it welcomes the introduction of Covid marshals in the city to advise businesses on their responsibilities during the second national lockdown. Bristol City Council has said it plans to have at least 16 marshals operating around the city in an initiative announced before the...
