Bristol-based Latin American restaurant chain Las Iguanas is continuing its national roll-out by opening its 39th outlet in Torquay. The restaurant, in the English Riveria resort’s £12m Abbey Sands development, will create 50 jobs ahead of its April opening. Licensing aspects of the deal were handled by Bristol-headquartered law...
Bristol firms are greeting positive economic news, such as the latest fall in unemployment, with “faint alarm bells rather than celebratory cheers”, according to the region’s largest business organisation. Business West, which runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Bristol Initiative, said politicians should now focus on the “significant...
The Hampton by Hilton hotel, which is due to open in Bristol in June, has appointed Imran Ali as its general manager. Work on the 186-room hotel is now under way in a converted former office building on the corner of Bond Street and York Street close to the...
A thousand Bristol firms are being challenged to ‘go green’ in the largest project of its kind ever staged in the city. Under the high-profile Go Green scheme, launched this week, businesses will play a pivotal role in making Bristol healthier, more competitive and more sustainable. But they will...
The UK’s first affordable straw homes have gone on sale in Shirehampton. The houses are an affordable, low carbon and fuel-efficient means of housebuilding with fuel bills up 90% cheaper than an equivalent brick-built house. Designed by Stokes Croft-based architects White Desig, they also cost less to buy than...
The Bristol office of property advisers CBRE has strengthened its national asset services team with the appointment of Mark Evans as senior surveyor. He joins from rival Alder King’s office in the city, where he worked as a surveyor. Mark said: “I am thrilled to be joining CBRE at...
Some of Bristol’s biggest businesses have joined forces with seven Rotary Clubs across the city to support a campaign to immunise 125,000 children against polio. The 11 firms are backing Rotary’s End Polio Now campaign, part of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) which is looking to eradicate polio...
Firms in the Bristol area are being urged to enter one of the region’s top award schemes showcasing excellence and enterprise in business. The prestigious Institute of Directors’ South West Director of the Year Awards 2015 seek to recognise outstanding business people and focus UK-wide attention on success in...
The innovative smart city initiative Bristol Is Open has received unanimous support from the city council cabinet, enabling the University of Bristol’s research and council-owned infrastructure to come together for the first time. As report by Bristol Business News last week, Bristol Is Open will manage the Open Programmable City...
Work to clear the site for the future cinema-led leisure development in Yate starts on Monday. Yate Riverside will be anchored by a six-screen Cineworld cinema. Bristol-based contractor ISG will remove trees and shrubbery in the development area, an operation that will take around four weeks. The main construction...
TV and movie stars filming at Bristol’s Bottle Yard Studios will be chauffeured to and from the centre under a new partnership with eco-friendly firm Studio Cars. The firm is the latest to open a base at highly-successful studio complex in Hengrove, where filming has taken place for productions...
Bristol’s ambition to become a leading ‘smart’ city with an experimental high-speed network linking academics and businesses to create new tech-based products and services is set to take a major step forward. The first joint venture between the city council and the University of Bristol – known as Bristol...
More young people need to be attracted into jobs in the construction or it will suffer a major skills shortage as the economy recovers, three West of England industry leaders are warning. Gary Higgins and Ben Milsom, founders of GBRS Recruitment, Integral Build director Tim Stringer, and Gemma Day,...
