The 49th double-decker Airbus A380 airliner has taken to the sky in Korean Air livery – bringing long-haul travel to new heights of luxury. The giant aircraft's entire upper deck has been configured as business-class accommodation with 94 lie-flat seats. The aircraft has just 407 seats in total, far...
TV chef and restaurant entrepreneur Jamie Oliver has given a huge boost to Park Street, according to Richard Saunders, retail director at the Bristol office of commercial property specialists Colliers International. The February opening of Jamie's Italian Restaurant on a corner site that had formerly been Blackwells Bookshop was...
Kevin Butler, who was the Bank of England's head of audit and regional agent for the South West, has joined chartered accountants Milsted Langdon in Bristol as consultant economist. Plans are already in place for Mr Butler to address a number of seminars on economics-related topics as well as...
Bristol is on track to lead the rebalancing of British manufacturing over the next 20 years as an advanced manufacturing super-city, says HSBC in its third annual authoritative assessment of the British economy. Its Future of Business Report, published today, identifies Bristol – and its dynamic high-tech industrial base...
Bristol Water pre-tax profits plummeted from £23.1m to £7.6m in the year to May 31 following what chairman Moger Woolley described as "one of the most unusual years in the company's long history". Not only had the company faced one of the severest Decembers and driest years in...
Good week . . . for West of England LEP. It has secured £25m from the Regional Growth Fund to invest in small firms and infrastructure Bad week . . . the Chinese economy. It's fallen to 7.4% – a figure that is enviable in the West but could...
Bristol-based Charles Francis has a chance of winning one of nine £50,000 prizes in Take One Small Step, a business idea contest sponsored by Barclays Bank. Charles, whose business dream is to set up Bristol's first liquid nitrogen ice cream creation parlour, has made it through to a...
The UK M&A market is showing signs of recovery with the value of deals rising by 63% in the first quarter of 2011, according to the eighth edition of UK Deal Drivers – a comprehensive view of the UK M&A landscape published by PKF in association with mergermarket. Deals...
