Construction firm’s first social value report builds on its already strong 130-year track record

October 28, 2024
Construction firm’s first social value report builds on its already strong 130-year track record

A regional construction company founded more than 130 years ago has produced its first framework outlining its commitments to supporting the communities where it works and the wider environment as well as its people and their skills. Beard said the Social Value Framework would reinforce the family-owned business’s long-standing...

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Pumping funds into ‘clean growth’ and new machinery gives specialist manufacturer a strong pipeline

October 28, 2024
Pumping funds into ‘clean growth’ and new machinery gives specialist manufacturer a strong pipeline

A Bristol manufacturer producing specialist pumps for aquariums, zoos and entertainment parks has boosted its green credentials while also supporting its next phase of growth. Apex Pumps, which was founded in 1988 and has a 27-strong workforce, recently installed a 150-kW solar panel system on its Staple Hill factory...

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Ahead of the Agenda: The Week Ahead

October 27, 2024
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Monday October 28 Economic announcements: M4 money supply, BRC shop price index Tuesday October 29 Finals: Softcat, Ultimate Products, Cap-xx, YouGov, Sareum Holdings Interim: C&C Group Economic announcements: Consumer credit, Mortgage approvals Wednesday October 30 Final: Grit Real Estate Income Group Q3 results: Standard Chartered, Smurfit Westrock Trading announcement: Next Thursday October 31 Final: Seeing Machines Interim: Vela...

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The LAST WORD: Annie Legge, co-founder, Tech4Good South West

October 25, 2024
The LAST WORD: Annie Legge, co-founder, Tech4Good South West

Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Tech4Good South West co-founder Annie Legge answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST Film you watched? The Outrun. I loved the emphasis on healing through nature – cold water swimming...

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Unique maritime research platform saved from the scrapyard by Bristol firm after its team flips into action

October 25, 2024
Unique maritime research platform saved from the scrapyard by Bristol firm after its team flips into action

Bristol subsea design firm DEEP, which is developing what it calls the next generation of ‘underwater human habitats’, has saved a pioneering ocean-going research vessel from being scrapped in a last-minute rescue mission. Bosses at the firm learned about the plight of the R/P FLIP (Floating Instrument Platform), pictured,...

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Mattel draws on Aardman’s creativity to bring loveable penguin Pingu back to our TV screens

October 25, 2024
Mattel draws on Aardman’s creativity to bring loveable penguin Pingu back to our TV screens

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...

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Boston Tea Party looking to cause a stir in the UK café industry with campaign to ban all single-use cups

October 25, 2024
Boston Tea Party looking to cause a stir in the UK café industry with campaign to ban all single-use cups

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...

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Global measurement technology group snaps up pioneering Bristol- based weather sensor business

October 25, 2024
Global measurement technology group snaps up pioneering Bristol- based weather sensor business

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...

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BBC puts chunk of its iconic Bristol site on the market after partial move to new city centre studio

October 25, 2024
BBC puts chunk of its iconic Bristol site on the market after partial move to new city centre studio

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...

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