Bristol’s future economic growth faces huge challenges because it is being held back by complacency combined with massive inequality, low productivity and poor infrastructure. The stark warning emerged from Mayor Marvin Rees’ first State of the City lecture, when he vowed to stop Bristol being a “city fractured by...
Creative firms based in and around Bristol dominate the list of contenders for this year’s Panda Awards – the ‘green Oscars’ staged in the city as part of the annual Wildscreen festival. The awards, which take place at Colston Hall on Thursday, recognise excellence in wildlife film and TV...
The UK’s first Festival of Leadership is to be staged in Bristol, with the city’s mayor Marvin Rees among its top-level speakers. The festival is the result of collaboration between UWE and the London-based Leadership Centre and will have the theme of ‘rethinking leadership for an uncertain world’. Its...
Regional construction company Beard, which opened an office in Bristol last year, has been appointed by the ss Great Britain Trust to build its new national Brunel museum. Beard is working with Bristol-based Alec French Architects on the museum, part of the £7.2m Being Brunel project, which will explore...
The president of the CBI has urged West business leaders to press for a ‘soft’ Brexit with full access to the European Single Market and to also counter the view that immigration is bad for the UK. Paul Drechsler CBE told the South West CBI annual dinner that he...
Members of Bristol’s business community were among around 80 people from across the South West taking part in the UK’s largest sleep-out. They bedded down in Bristol’s Millennium Square on Friday night to raise money for youth services run by Action for Children. Among businesses involved in Byte Night...
A Bristol-led team of building innovators is hoping to develop one of the UK’s most sustainable housing schemes in a suburb of the city. Plans for the 161-home development in Southmead – which would also help tackle the affordable housing crisis in the city - have been submitted to Bristol City...
Another Bristol independent food retailer is to open in the city’s burgeoning Harbourside food quarter Wapping Wharf. Biblos, known for its fast-food fusion of Middle Eastern and Caribbean cuisine, will become the latest arrival at the development opens its doors this winter. Owners William Clarke and Ariel Czackers...
Five firms from the Bristol area have been included in a prestigious league table of the UK’s fastest-growing privately owned businesses. Dental group Oasis Dental Care, catering equipment supplier Nisbets, recruitment consultancy Resource Solutions Group (RSG), building products supplier Taylor Maxwell and Yeo Valley, the yoghurt and dairy group, will...
Mohammed Saddiq, whose sustainable and innovative ideas have included Bristol’s pioneering poo-powered bus, has been appointed as the independent chairman of the Bristol Green Capital Partnership. Mohammed, pictured, managing director of GENeco – a Wessex Water subsidiary – has taken on the voluntary role and will chair the partnership’s...
Business leaders from Bristol and across the West of England will get their first chance to hear the views of the CBI’s recently appointed president and its incoming regional chair at the organisation’s annual dinner next week. The event is traditionally a high point of the region’s business calendar,...
Bristol-based agricultural software specialist Agrantec has agreed a two-year sponsorship deal with regional food and drink award scheme, the Taste of the West Awards. Agrantec will support the 2016 Champion Meat & Poultry award, the winner of which will be announced at the awards ceremony at Exeter Cathedral on...
The state-of-the-art Future Space business workspace at UWE’s Frenchay Campus has been handed over to the management team at Oxford Innovation as its third business moves in. Future Space provides a unique destination for science and technology companies and includes shared and co-working offices, an equipped lab, upgradeable workshops and...
