Green/sustainable business

‘Huge inequality combined with complacency’ jeopardising Bristol’s economic future, experts warn

October 10, 2016
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‘Huge inequality combined with complacency’ jeopardising Bristol’s economic future, experts warn

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...

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Bristol firms line up against the big beasts of the wildlife film industry in the city’s ‘green Oscars’

October 10, 2016
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Bristol firms line up against the big beasts of the wildlife film industry in the city’s ‘green Oscars’

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...

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Bristol to host first Festival of Leadership to inspire collaboration and innovation

October 10, 2016
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Bristol to host first Festival of Leadership to inspire collaboration and innovation

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...

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SS Great Britain appoints construction firm to build its Brunel museum

October 10, 2016
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SS Great Britain appoints construction firm to build its Brunel museum

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...

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Businesses should show benefits of immigration in post-Brexit Britain, CBI president tells West bosses

October 7, 2016
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Businesses should show benefits of immigration in post-Brexit Britain, CBI president tells West bosses

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...

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Business figures bed down for the night to raise funds for vulnerable children

October 7, 2016
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Business figures bed down for the night to raise funds for vulnerable children

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...

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Super-sustainable homes plan for city drawn up by Bristol firms to help tackle affordable housing crisis

September 30, 2016
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Super-sustainable homes plan for city drawn up by Bristol firms to help tackle affordable housing crisis

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...

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Wapping Wharf wraps up another restaurant deal as it stakes claim to be Bristol’s emerging food hub

September 30, 2016
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Wapping Wharf wraps up another restaurant deal as it stakes claim to be Bristol’s emerging food hub

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...

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Five fast-growing Bristol firms make it onto Top Track 250 table

September 30, 2016
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Five fast-growing Bristol firms make it onto Top Track 250 table

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...

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Poo-bus pioneer takes up role as independent chair of Bristol Green Capital Partnership

September 30, 2016
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Poo-bus pioneer takes up role as independent chair of Bristol Green Capital Partnership

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...

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CBI president and new regional chair to speak at its annual South West dinner

September 29, 2016
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CBI president and new regional chair to speak at its annual South West dinner

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,...

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Specialist software gets taste for food and drink awards sponsorship

September 23, 2016
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Specialist software gets taste for food and drink awards sponsorship

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...

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First firms arrive at UWE’s innovative Future Space as it opens for business

September 23, 2016
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First firms arrive at UWE’s innovative Future Space as it opens for business

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...

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