OVO, the Bristol-based energy supplier, is to boost its community links by becoming the latest business to join the social platform run from the city by pioneering firm Neighbourly. The highly innovative platform links community projects with companies that want to make a difference. Neighbourly will now help OVO...
Blue Badge Company, the Bristol firm that designs and makes a range of stylish living aids, has been shortlisted for its first national awards. Director Ellen Green has been selected in two categories of the Great British Entrepreneur Awards in recognition of the firm’s products, which are transforming the...
Firms that support fair and ethical business practices are being urged to enter a unique business awards scheme. Now in their fourth year, the highly successful South West Fairtrade Business Awards champion firms that put ethical responsibilities at the heart of their business. Last year 76 businesses from across...
More than 80 businessmen and women gathered for the launch of the Go Green 2016 Awards at Avery’s Wine Cellars, which will celebrate the green achievements of Bristol businesses during the city’s year as European Green Capital. All photos by Jon Craig joncraig.co.uk
The green achievements of Bristol businesses during the city’s year as European Green Capital are to be showcased and celebrated in a unique awards scheme. The prestigious Go Green 2016 Awards will recognise those businesses that have made significant improvements to their green credentials this year. And as the...
A London-based venture capital firm is highlighting Bristol as one of Europe’s most attractive places for investment in start-up companies. Since its launch just over a year ago, Downing Ventures has invested almost a third of its entire portfolio in start-ups based in the Bristol area. Its investments include...
A membership scheme to support Bristol’s burgeoning local food scene will be officially launched later this month at the first-ever Bristol Food Producers’ Gathering. The event will be open to all those who wish to work together to support local, sustainable food production in the city and surrounding region....
Expert advice on investing in a green and clean way will be on offer at a seminar in Bristol next week – the latest in a series of events looking at ethical investments in the city. Stockbrokers Beaufort Securities’ Bristol office is staging the Bristol Green Investment Forum with...
Five major construction firms have expressed an interest in becoming the lead contractor for Bristol’s long-awaited arena. The firms – BAM Construction, Bouygues UK, Sir Robert McAlpine, Laing O’Rourke and Buckingham Group Contracting – were invited to a bidders’ day and site visit on Monday to find out more...
That was the over-arching theme as leaders from across the business spectrum as well as civic leaders gathered for the Bristol 2015 European Green Capital Business Summit. The event focused on the challenges, as well as the huge opportunities, of an era where the world is changing faster than...
SETsquared, the University of Bristol-backed innovation partnership, has been named the best in Europe at helping new businesses for the third year running. The recognition came in the University Business Incubator (UBI) Index, which ranks Europe’s best performing university business incubators. SETsquared, a partnership of the universities of Bristol,...
By Matt Cross, head of inward investment, Invest Bristol and Bath. Business leaders, students, visitors and residents are the most powerful, passionate and authentic advocates of any town or city. People who live and breathe Bristol and Bath get the message across better than any other form of advertising...
Bristol firms are to be given the chance to explore doing business in more than 70 countries worldwide when an international delegation visits the city next month. ExploreExport 2015 is aimed at all companies keen to expand overseas and is staged against a backdrop of rising exports from the South...
