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Speed announces trio of senior promotions

The award-winning, full-service PR and communications consultancy, Speed has today announced three new senior promotions to maximise growth for the agency in key sectors.

Back of the net for Butcombe Brewing Co as company records bumper beer sales!

Butcombe Brewing Co (part of Liberation Group) is enjoying England’s football success recording OBV sales of its beer up 134% on this time last year.

Bristol hoteliers counting the hours until ‘Freedom Day’

Hoteliers in Bristol welcomed this week’s announcement from Prime Minister Boris Johnson that ‘Freedom Day’ is set to happen on 19 July.

Glastonbury Festival’s Shangri-La opens new Bristol venue

Located in Elton Street, Bristol, Lost Horizon HQ will feature arts, live music and performance this summer and has been described as “a creative playground for the iconic festival district”.

Plymouth-based Burts Snacks teams up with the RNLI as the South West braces itself for busy holiday season

Research shows that 75% of Brits are expecting to visit a UK beach or the coast between April and September 2021.

Bristol allotment vineyard “Nania’s” to produce England’s first orange wine in a can.

After inheriting a 50-year-old grape vine in their garden, documentary cameraman James Bayliss-Smith and wife Shelley Nania caught what they call “the wine bug”.

Bristol named as one of the UK’s most sustainable food cities

Bristol has become only the second city in the UK to be awarded the status of Gold Sustainable Food City.

Have your say on England’s larder

From Cornish pasties to Wensleydale cheese, there are a feast of British treats whose geographical status is rightly protected, meaning poor imitations cannot threaten their reputation for excellence.

Taste of the West Product Awards 2021 – First Results Announced

South West food and drink producers have once again excelled themselves, and this week Taste of the West has had the honour of awarding the first phase of Gold, Silver and Commended awards in the 2021 Product Awards scheme.

New food hall championing local and independent chefs to open on Bristol’s harbourside next summer

Award-winning dining, retail and leisure operators BOXPARK, are opening a brand-new food hall on Bristol’s harbourside.

Still In Cask, a brand new global platform, is set to revolutionise the way whisk(e)y & cask aged spirits can be sold to the consumer

Still In Cask is a brand-new global platform that, for the first time, will give consumers around the globe the opportunity to buy shares in a cask of spirit directly from a distillery.