{"id":541038,"date":"2026-04-20T12:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/541038\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:51:10","slug":"bristol-blue-glass-factory-to-close-amid-rising-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/541038\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Blue Glass factory to close amid rising costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A well-known glassware company is set to close due to rising costs as bosses have said they are &#8220;heartbroken&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chiefs at Bristol Blue Glass factory said in a statement posted online that increasing rental costs, fuel prices and the ill health of directors have created an &#8220;overwhelming&#8221; financial strain, and the company will close on May 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The announcement follows 7,000 people signing a petition to keep the company open after bosses were told they would need to find a new location for their factory, based on Bath Road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite finding an alternative site, a spokesperson said the ongoing &#8220;challenges have simply become insurmountable for a small business like ours&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A well-known glassware company is set to close due to rising costs as bosses have said they are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-541038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}