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Business West’s latest Quarterly Economic Survey, which polls businesses across the South West, reveals 63% of the 268 respondents are optimistic about their own prospects, but only 16% said the same...
In a recent interview with fellow B Corp certified organisation Estrella Ventures , a sustainable marketing agency based in Bristol, and our Director of Responsible Business, Jessica Vallentine, we...
On Thursday 14th March we invited Bristol Initiative members to meet their representatives in the Bristol Labour Party at the offices of fellow Initiative members Arcadis. As with the previous event...
Every so often we like to shine the spotlight on our members, and in this case one of the members of the Bristol Initiative. We sat down with Jo Dally, to talk about her role as the Strategic...
Gus is a Policy Analyst and Research Officer at Business West. He provides information, research, analysis and policy development support to Business West and its Policy, LSIP and Initiative teams...
“Change or you will be changed” was a mantra from the former ICI boss, Sir John Harvey-Jones. Readers of an older vintage like myself will remember he was probably the first business guru to have a...
The number one issue being regularly raised by our members in virtually all sectors, is the difficulty of recruitment and retention of staff. And when you investigate more closely, more often than...
Responding to the latest Office for National Statistics data on UK trade for January, William Bain, Head of Trade Policy at the British Chambers of Commerce, of which Business West is a key player,...
BCC, of which Business West are a key player, survey of more than 1,000 UK businesses finds one third (33%) are negatively impacted by the current Bank of England interest rate. Small and mid-sized...
