A two-storey office building in North Bristol has been let within five weeks of becoming vacant – an unusually fast turnaround and a positive sign of the improving health of the commercial market in Bristol, according to agents Jones Lang LaSalle. They secured the letting with chartered tax advisers...
When you're that rich, perhaps it doesn't matter but three of the West's wealthiest people have slipped down the ratings in the Sunday Times Rich List – thanks largely to the vagaries of the stock market. Bristol-based Hargreaves Lansdown co-founder Peter Hargreaves’ personal estimated wealth fall below £1bn in...
South West law firm Foot Anstey, which opened a Bristol office last year, has underlined its commitment to developing talent by promoting three specialist lawyers to its partnership. The promotions strengthen existing areas of expertise at the firm – corporate, employment and pensions and financial services – and follow...
Bristol’s groundbreaking creative hub for young people, The Station, has received a £46,000 donation from the Society of Merchant Venturers, the historic organisation that supports enterprise and culture in the city. Led by the Creative Youth Network, The Station project is transforming the derelict Old Fire Station on Bridewell...
Airbus has produced it first new-build A320 with Sharklets – the pioneering, fuel-saving wing fins designed and made at its Filton plant. The devices, which are attached to the single-aisle aircraft’s wing tips, reduce fuel burn by up to 3.5%, giving an annual CO2 reduction of around 700 tonnes...
May 1 10am – 1pm Workshop SETsquared Bristol University Gate East Park Row Bristol BS1 5UB http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/2559651988 May 2 WEAF Airbus Supply Chain – its future. An insight into Airbus’ strategy and supply chain development programme 9:30am – 1pm BAWA Club 589 Southmead Rd Bristol BS34 7RG http://www.weaf.co.uk/events/view/all/101 May...
Monday 30 April Interims: Aberdeen Asset Management, Infrastrata, Redefine Finals: Asterand, Harvey Nash, Waterlogic Trading statements: Creston, FBD AGMs: Brady, DP World, FBD, London Capital, Minoan, Nextgen, Personal, Rangold Resources Tuesday 1 May Interim: Imperial Tobacco Finals: Brown (N), Development Securities Trading statements: BP, CSR, Lloyds Banking, Man, National...
Chancellor George Osborne has officially launched Bristol’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone, claiming it will help rebalance the economy away from the City of London and the South East. In a short speech this morning made in a ‘big top’ circus tent next to Temple Meads Station, the Chancellor said...
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne officially opened GKN Aerospace’s new £250m manufacturing plant at Severnside this afternoon, declaring it the most futuristic factory he'd ever seen. Speaking to many of the 300-strong workforce and VIP guests, he said: "It makes me enormously proud that we are not in...
Want to be ‘at one’ with nature? Bristol Business News Travel Editor ANNE GORRINGE discovers what else there is to get up to in the mountains above St Anton once the ski season comes to a close… How can letting dozens of ants crawl up your arm keep a...
Bristol law firm Bevans Bray Walker has been closed by The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). Administrators from Grant Thornton have been appointed while London law firm Russell Cooke has collected clients' files, a move that the SRA says will protect the immediate position and safeguard documents and clients’ money. Bevans Bray Walker specialised...
Fixing hairline cracks in the wings of its A380 superjumbo has forced Airbus to slow production of the aircraft from 2.7 a month to 2.3, according to a French business news website. This could put in jeopardy its objective of delivering 30 of the aircraft next year and delay...
MITIE has signed up to deliver facilities management services for Lloyds Banking Group in what it describes as a transformational partnership. The five-year deal, which has a possible one-year extension, is expected to be worth £155m annually. MITIE, a Bristol-based FTSE250 company whose business covers strategic outsourcing and energy services, will...
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