Accountants Smith & Williamson’s Bristol office is celebrating two high-profile successes this month with a tax advisor making into the Top 35 UK Private Client Practitioners Under 35 list and an associate director being awarded fellowship to the Personal Finance Society. Imogen Hilton-Brown has been officially recognised as a rising...
Momentum, the Bristol-based corporate finance provider, has advised the shareholders of Origin Publishing on its sale to BBC Magazines as part of a larger deal with the publisher’s new owner Exponent Private Equity. Momentum backed Origin’s management buyout in 2006 when it was lead adviser to the management team....
Aerospace giant Airbus, City of Bristol College and North Somerset Council are to receive financial aid under the Government’s £950m Regional Growth Fund – but the way the cash is allocated has been criticised by the area’s leading business organisation. The three are among nearly 120 businesses, councils, educational...
Bristol's Merchant Venturers have made a £30,000 grant to an innovative Forces Self Build Scheme taking shape in West Street, Bedminster. The Merchants’ gift will go towards building and construction training to help 12 ex-servicemen to build their own homes – as well as ensuring the presence of a skilled workman on...
Around 2,000 skilled jobs have been put at risk by the cuts to a key incentive for renewable energy announced by the Government yesterday, according to experts at Regen SW, the region’s green energy group. It claims the cuts, proposed in the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s (DECC)...
Claire McRea has joined the Bristol office of accountants and business advisers Grant Thornton as a manager in its tax team. Claire, who grew up in Bristol and has a degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of the West of England, joins from Target Chartered Accountants in...
Bristol-based Imperial Tobacco, the South West’s largest business by turnover, overcame tough conditions in some of its markets to achieve a 3.7% increase in total annual revenues to £29.2bn with adjusted operating profit up from £2,53bn to £3.1bn, a rise of 1.2%. Profits before tax rose from £2.11bn to £2.15bn, some way short...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com Some of the world’s greatest animation and TV talents, including Oscar-winner Nick Park, have come together to donate unique artwork and signed memorabilia to an online auction in aid of Bristol Children’s Hospital’s Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal. More than 30 exclusive, original or limited...
