With less than an hour before Chancellor George Osborne reveals the contents of this year’s Budget, expectations are running high for some business-friendly measures to ease the plight on small and medium-sized firms. Among the issues business organisations in the West want tackled is a planned reduction in the...
Food travel experts SSP are investing more than £150,000 in upgrading bars and restaurants at Bristol Airport to improve ambience, accessibility and comfort for passengers. The terminal’s table service restaurant Dexters will be first to undergo a makeover, with new furniture and lighting. Among the improvements will be a...
Shareholders in Wessex Exploration, the Bristol-based hydrocarbon prospecting company which floated on AIM a year ago, look set to share in a £72m bonanza following a possible cash offer from French oil giant Total for the entire issued and to-be-issued share capital at a price of 10p per ordinary share....
Every best-selling children's ride-on Trunki suitcase sold in Britain will be designed in Bristol and made in England by the end of this year. Magmatic, the Bristol company set up by Trunki creator Rob Law, is bringing home its production from China to the UK from mid-April. Fittingly the...
Measurement and medical device manufacturer Renishaw is looking to recruit a further 120 staff for its five Gloucestershire sites – primarily skilled people with engineering and manufacturing experience in mechanical, software, electronics and production engineering. There are also multiple opportunities for CNC setter/operators as well as vacancies for support...
Hundreds of business people from across the region are today heading to Rabbit South West, the region’s most innovative business exhibition. Delegate registrations for the show at Brunel’s Old Station, Temple Meads have doubled over the past week and were still rising strongly today. Businesses from across the West of...
UWE InnovEnterS are hosting a drinks and networking this evening tomorrow for anyone interested in start-ups and entrepreneurship. The event will be a fantastic opportunity to meet other students, businesspeople and entrepreneurs from around Bristol. Anyone can attend, whether they are looking for a start-up partner, people to share...
Wednesday’s Budget and its impact on West businesses and individuals will be on the menu at the latest Meet the Press breakfast at luxury hotel Ston Easton Park, which takes place the following day. The series of events are aimed at business leaders and owners with guest speakers Robert...
Furious Guy Kingston, chairman of the Bristol branch of the Federation of Small Businesses, is calling for businesses to boycott a city council parking survey in protest at plans to introduce a tax on workplace parking to help bridge a funding gap for three rapid transit schemes. The survey...
Some 2.4m sq ft of industrial space was sold or let in the South West industrial and logistics market last year with Bristol remaining a key location and showing promising signs for 2012, according to new figures from the Industrial Agents Society (IAS) Western Branch. Other figures from the...
Work has begun on an Airbus Aerospace Business Park at Filton – a multi-million pound state-of-the-art engineering and technology campus scheduled for completion next year. Speaking at a ceremony to mark the start of construction, Mark Barclay, senior vice president of the Airbus Wings and Pylons Centre of Excellence...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com The official route of the Olympic torch through Bristol is revealed today by London 2012 organisers, with paralympian sailor and Team GB member Blaire Hannan leading the procession. Among the Bristol roads on the route are Nags Head Hill, Old Market Street, Baldwin Street, Hotwell...
A new forum to showcase manufacturing in the West and share best practice has staged its inaugural meeting. SWIM (South West Innovative Manufacturing) was launched at the National Composites Centre (NCC) on the Bristol & Bath Science Park with the message that, while facing some tough challenges, manufacturing is...
