Two Bristol-based businesses’ achievements in renewable energy and cleantech projects have earned them accolades in a major national awards scheme. Ethical lender Triodos Bank UK and GENeco, the renewable energy and recycling company best known for its poo-powered Bio-Bus, were among the winners at this year’s British Renewable Energy Awards,...
Bristol Airport this afternoon welcomed today’s launch of a government scheme to pay towards UK airports’ fixed costs as they face huge losses as a result of Covid-related restrictions. Under the new scheme commercial airports and ground handlers will be able to apply for up to £8m each to...
Bristol’s highly successful Bottle Yard studio complex is to be expanded, creating around 1,000 jobs over the next 10 years and boosting the city’s status as a prime location for film and TV production. The West of England Combined Authority (WECA) today approved £11.73m for the Bristol City Council-owned studio to...
Business confidence among South West firms has slumped to the lowest in England as the latest lockdown pushes sales down further and puts more pressure on staffing levels. Just 11% for businesses in the region expect trading levels to have returned to pre-pandemic levels by this time next year...
Black-owned Bristol businesses will be encouraged to create connections that will help them to start up, grow, adapt and thrive in a free online event hosted by Lloyds Banking Group. The event, which is being supported by Bristol West MP Thangam Debbonaire, pictured, will bring together Black business owners...
A campaign to help Bristol businesses recover from the impact coronavirus by connecting them with essential support and guidance has been launched by the West of England Combined Authority (WECA). Called Together West of England, the campaign is part of a plan for a long-term, post-Covid recovery drawn up...
Crematoria and cemeteries group Westerleigh has handed over £3,000 from its metal recycling scheme to launch a new partnership with the Bristol City Football Club Robins Foundation. The scheme uses money raised from the recycling of metals recovered during cremation, with the consent of the families involved, to support...
Businesses in the Redcliffe and Temple area of Bristol city centre are being urged to vote for it to become a Business Improvement District (BID) in a ballot put back by six months due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Destination Bristol, the city’s destination marketing organisation behind the ballot, says...
Global real estate advisor CBRE is celebrating the ongoing success of its graduate scheme with two members of its Bristol office being promoted to surveyors. Hannah Hicks and Stuart Blick joined CBRE’s South West team in recent years as new graduates. Hannah, pictured right, is now a member of...
Construction group Bouygues UK has appointed John Boughton, the former deputy managing director of rival Willmott Dixon in Wales and the South West, as its managing director for the same region. John, pictured, has worked in the industry for more than 30 years, four of them at Willmott Dixon,...
Recently released research from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has indicated that as many as 250,000 small businesses could collapse in the next 12 months. Whilst many businesses affected by the latest national lockdown are receiving assistance via the various government financial support measures, such as the furlough...
Strong performances by the industrial and logistics markets – driven mainly by the boom in home shopping – helped Bristol’s property sector shrug off the impact of the coronavirus pandemic last year, according to a new report. Some 2.2m sq ft of space in and around Bristol was taken...
A world-leading ‘circular economy’ energy park being built in Bristol has reached a major milestone with the completion of its £252m energy recovery plant. Contractor CNIM has officially handed over the site at Avonmouth to waste management and recycling business Viridor and it is now gearing up to generate...
