Engine Shed, the Bristol innovation hub, is to host an ideas pitching event to help decide the winner of a project that encourages and inspires young people from diverse backgrounds to consider careers in the tech and digital sectors. Eight groups are to take part in the Call for...
Nine firms from the Bristol area are going head to head to win the title of the happiest workplace in the West of England. Triodos Bank, Signature Recruitment, Heat Recruitment, Ghyston, Signs & That, PES, Springfield Papers, ISL Recruitment and Shiner – 2015’s winner – are competing against five...
Future Space, the business workspace for science and technology-led companies at UWE’s Frenchay Campus, has exceeded its targets 12 months after opening its doors. The 4,100 sq m facility now has 27 companies, around 130 staff and is more than 60% occupied. When fully operational, it is expected to...
Bristol businesses that care about their city are being urged to step up their philanthropy and offer support for organisations that prevent local people suffering mental health crises. The plea comes from the Quartet Community Foundation, the independent charity that works across the West of England to support local...
Further speakers for this year’s TEDxBristol – the UK’s largest event of its kind – were last night announced at its official launch party. Among the largest TEDxs in Europe, TEDxBristol will take place over two days in November following the success of the inaugural one-day event in 2015. ...
UWE Bristol will next week officially open its Envirotron – a sophisticated greenhouse that will transform teaching, research and partnerships in the areas of biodiversity and conservation, global environmental change and food security. The university has made a significant investment in the building, which features LED lighting that minimises...
Ellen Green, the managing director of Bristol-based independent lifestyle products firm Blue Badge Co, has been named as one of 12 most inspirational women in the UK retail sector. Ellen, pictured, who has grown Blue Badge Co from a company run from a friend’s bedroom to a £500,000-turnover business,...
Bristol’s pioneering pie firm Pieminister has finally opened in Birmingham after several years searching the second city for a site suitable for its first West Midlands outlet. The fast-growing gourmet pie maker has acquired a 1,300 sq ft unit in Waterloo Street, which will become its 13th restaurant. The...
Bristol-based café group Friska has been named Regional Growth Business of the Year in the Food and Drink Federation Awards. The win comes hot on the heels of a successful fund-raising round in the summer when Friska raised £3m from Yorkshire Fund Managers (YFM). It also coincided with...
Student Alex Gatehouse, who launched innovative healthy meals delivery service Pelico while studying at UWE Bristol, has won a prestigious national Institute of Directors award. Alex, pictured, was named Student Director of the Year at the annual awards ceremony in London, which celebrates directors at the forefront of leadership...
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 Rich Osborn, founder and CEO of Fresh-range, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? I watched The BFG this week (for the second time) with my 10...
An official trade mission of small food and drink firms jets off to China from Bristol Airport tomorrow morning in a bid to win business in the fast-growing country, which has a keen appetite for premium brands in the sector. The delegation is backed by Santander, Business West, the...
Bristol’s emerging young entrepreneurs will get the chance to share their stories and pitch their ideas in a Dragons’ Den-style competition at an event staged by city-based youth empowerment project Babbasa later this month. Among those taking part in the launch of Bright Ideas Enterprise Competition on September 30...
