Bristol award-winning animation studio Aardman is to co-develop a new stop-motion animated Pingu TV series after teaming up with toy giant Mattel. Created by Otmar Gutmann in the 1980s, Pingu, pictured, first aired on BBC One in 1990. The cheeky South Pole-dwelling penguin has been a mainstay of kids’ television since and...
Bristol-headquartered café group Boston Tea Party, which six years ago became the first in the UK to eliminate single-use cups, has launched a challenge to its larger rivals to follow its lead. Describing the bold campaign as a way of shaking up the industry, it said the big coffee chains...
A firm based near Bristol that has supplied weather sensors to airports, stadiums and offshore platforms for more than 25 years has been acquired by an international innovator in measurement technology. Biral, whose sensors measure everything from precipitation to visibility as well as detecting lightning, has become part of...
A section of the BBC’s historic Whiteladies Road site in Bristol, which it has occupied for 90 years, has been put up for sale. The move follows BBC Studios’ relocation to Bridgewater House at Finzels Reach in the city centre and consolidation of the corporation’s main productions on another...
The University of Bristol’s catalyst for innovation has appointed Rosie Bennett as its new innovation lead to grow its programmes for business members. Bristol Innovations was created two years ago to offer innovation-led businesses access to cutting-edge research, technology and talent, creating breakthrough solutions and scalable commercial opportunities that...
A Productions, the specialist Bristol animation studio, has started work on a new series featuring one of the best-loved children’s book characters of recent decades. My Friend Maisy is based on the Maisy books, written and illustrated by Lucy Cousins, which have sold more than 46m copies worldwide, with the mouse Maisy...
A bookshop specialising in witchcraft, fantasy and horror titles has opened in Bristol time for Halloween after receiving a loan from a specialist regional fund. Owner Monika Killer secured the £25,000 Start Up Loan through non-profit company SWIG Finance to help open The Haunted Bookshop in Stokes Croft. The...
South West accountancy firm Albert Goodman has welcomed a record 17 new trainees to the business as its dedication to nurturing new accounting continues. The chartered accountants, tax consultants and financial planning firm has been operating its trainee programme for a number of years, enabling school leavers, university graduates...
Business confidence in the South West has improved and remains firmly in positive territory amid strong domestic sales growth, according to new research. Published less than a week before one of the most important Budgets for a generation, the quarterly survey of chartered accountants in the region paints a...
