Media coverage archive

Brightmere in the news

Reports and features from eight publications, April 2016 to September 2026.

2026

  1. Energy Retail Insider
    Brightmere faces competing choices as autumn review approaches
  2. The Consumer Desk
    A callback promise is easier to find than a comparable waiting time
  3. Swansea Bay Chronicle
    Swansea staff ask where they stand amid job rumours
  4. Bristol Courier
    Filton staff seek answers over customer operations review
  5. Western Business Review
    Brightmere earnings fall as service costs come into focus
  6. Tech and Work Weekly
    Regional data teams compete for specialists who can keep systems running
  7. The National Meridian
    On the phones after the simple questions move to a bot
  8. Energy Retail Insider
    Nell error raises questions about control of supplier model updates
  9. Bristol Courier
    Brightmere apologises and honours Nell payment-plan advice
  10. The Consumer Desk
    Customers question Nell messages about pausing payment plans
  11. Swansea Bay Chronicle
    Swansea advisers cautiously welcome automated call notes

2025

  1. Tech and Work Weekly
    Union challenges automated empathy scores at Brightmere
  2. Energy Retail Insider
    Nell joins Brightmere’s service channels as suppliers test digital assistants
  3. Western Business Review
    Brightmere settles pay negotiations with backdated four per cent award
  4. Bristol Courier
    Brightmere union members reject pay offer in indicative ballot
  5. Newyddion y Bae
    Recriwtio siaradwyr Cymraeg, ond pa mor hir yw’r aros?
  6. Bristol Courier
    Severnside opening widens the job choices facing Filton staff
  7. Tech and Work Weekly
    Brightmere says new AI tools will help advisers rather than replace them

2023

  1. Western Business Review
    Brightmere returns to profit under new majority owner
  2. Energy Retail Insider
    Calder takes control of Brightmere as retail investment faces service test
  3. The Consumer Desk
    Prepayment questions put suppliers’ checks under scrutiny

2022

  1. Swansea Bay Chronicle
    Former Pennant colleagues start at Brightmere with existing terms
  2. The Consumer Desk
    New supplier, old questions: transferred customers chase clear bills
  3. Bristol Courier
    Filton recruitment drive follows arrival of transferred energy accounts

2021

  1. Swansea Bay Chronicle
    Pennant staff wait for answers as customers move to Brightmere
  2. The National Meridian
    Clearwell households move to Brightmere after supplier fails

2019

  1. Western Business Review
    New chief takes over a supplier still shaped by its founder

2018

  1. Western Business Review
    Brightmere brings smart meter engineers in-house at Avonmouth

2016

  1. Newyddion y Bae
    Canolfan newydd Brightmere yn cynnig gwasanaeth drwy’r Gymraeg
  2. Swansea Bay Chronicle
    Brightmere opens Waterfront centre with Welsh service at its heart