Renishaw, the South Gloucestershire-based precision engineering group, has been named the Grant Thornton Mid-Cap Business of the Year. The company, based in Wotton-under-Edge, was established in 1973 and has become the world leader in measurement sensors and is now diversifying into healthcare products. It has offices in 31 countries...
Pegasus Planning Group, one of the leading national consultancies in the development sector, has relocated to prime space at the Equinox North complex in Almondsbury, North Bristol. Pegasus handles planning applications and permissions for a wide range of residential, commercial, business, leisure and retail projects across the UK and...
Alterian, the Bristol-based marketing software company, indicated today that it will probably accept an improved indicative takeover offer of £68.4m from Maidenhead-based SDL, one of the world’s top three providers of language services, software development and global information management services. SDL's new bid is pitched at 110p a share...
Three Bristol-based entrepreneurs will this evening explain how they have risen to the challenge of retaining creativity in their businesses. The trio will give an insight into the different stages of developing creative businesses at the event jointly staged by the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and the Institute...
Greg Clarke, Minister for Cities and and Minister for Decentralisation and Planning will be the keynote speaker at a conference in Bath's Assembly Rooms next Tuesday (15th). It has been organised by the Local Enterprise Partnership to discuss what the LEP has been doing since its last event in January – and its planned...
Sixteen small to medium-sized businesses from Bristol and the South West are being offered an opportunity to attend a subsidised transnational business-to-business event on December 1 and 2 in Aragon, Spain. SMEs will be selected to network, present their business plan and receive feedback. Up to €600 will be given to each participating company...
Chartered accountant Roger Isaacs and his nine-year-old son Harry have raised more than £1,500 for charity – by jumping off a cliff. Roger, a partner with Milsted Langdon, which has offices in Bristol, Taunton and Yeovil, was taking part in a sponsored abseil at Uphill Rock, near Weston-super-Mare, in...
Organic dairy company Yeo Valley is on target to become an X Factor success for the second successive year. Its boy band, The Churned, have boosted yoghurt sales by more than 10% through its £2.5m advertising campaign during the current ITV talent contest series. That is equivalent to selling 386,000 extra...
Microsoft's Bill and Melinda Gates have bought into Bristol-based research that uses urine as a potential fuel for Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) to produce electricity – otherwise known as Urine-tricity. Dr Ioannis Ieropoulos, Professor John Greenman and Professor Chris Melhuish of Bristol Robotics Lab have published a scientific paper outlining the...
Travel editor ANNE GORRINGE finds trekking in the Italian Alps an unforgettable experience… I didn’t expect to sleep with three guys on my birthday…and get a medal for it. But, what can I say? I was naive. It was a tough – but unforgettable – day. One that...
Former Dragons’ Den star James Caan’s private equity firm Hamilton Bradshaw has invested in Bristol-based specialist recruitment consultancy Timothy James Consulting (TJC) in a move that will enable it to double its staff and increase turnover by more than 75% in just two years. The deal, put together by...
Adult training service providers Tabs has moved into a 2,551 sq ft training centre formerly occupied by Working Links on the ground floor of 35 Colston Avenue in Bristol city centre. Tabs, which has taken the high-profile suite on a short lease, was founded in 2001 and is now...
Sentiment has fallen sharply among the UK’s small and medium-sized manufacturers, the CBI said today, adding to the air of gloom hanging over the economy. A slight decline in production over the next three months is forecast by these firms while, worryingly, over the past three months they suffered...
