Bristol manufacturers are being advised on measures they can take to switch production to essential medical equipment that will help tackle the coronavirus crisis. Earlier this week the Prime Minister called on around 60 leading UK manufacturers to make specialist medical equipment including ventilators. Among the businesses were aerospace...
A Bristol firm that helps small e-commerce firms distribute their products has received a major investment from an international logistics group. The undisclosed funding from Maersk Growth, the corporate venture arm of the global shipping container giant, will allow Emersons Green-based Huboo to continue its rapid growth. Huboo’s innovative...
Bristol is to take part in a ‘transport revolution’ including trialling self-driving cars and electronic scooters on public roads for the first time along with shared taxis and greater use of apps and electronic payments. The West of England has been chosen by the government as one of three...
The corporate team at Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon and Bristol-based ICON Corporate Finance have advised the shareholders of UK transportation management software firm Paragon Software Systems on its acquisition by US tech giant Aptean. Surrey-based Paragon has provided market-leading software to the food and beverage, distribution and...
The Bank of England has cut interest rates to 0.1% – their lowest level ever – as it attempts to deal with the economic fall-out from the coronavirus pandemic. The move is the second emergency cut in just over a week prompted by the outbreak – last week the...
Bristol law firm Barcan+Kirby has promoted two of its senior associates – Anna Molter and Rob Davenport – to partner. The move brings the total number of partners in the firm to 18. It also maintains the gender balance of the partnership. Anna joined Barcan+Kirby’s private client team in...
A training programme staged by Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, has been nominated alongside the likes of Apple and Google at a prestigious national awards scheme. Pathways to International Trade, which is in its sixth year, involves talented undergraduate students undergoing an intensive four-day training course in...
Bristol-based internal communications specialist Synergy Creative has been acquired by McCann Worldgroup, the global marketing group. McCann, which also has an office in Bristol, said taking over Synergy would broaden its employee engagement and organisational culture capabilities. Synergy’s recent client wins include budget supermarket group Aldi, furniture retailer DFS...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled an emergency £330bn package to support businesses during the coronavirus crisis. Mr Sunak, pictured, said the move was equivalent to 15% of the UK’s GDP and added that if demand was greater than the initial £330bn he would go further and provide as much...
National accountancy firm Smith & Williamson has welcomed four new arrivals to its Bristol office across a range of teams and levels of seniority. James Barrell has become an associate director in Smith & Williamson’s assurance and business services team, joining from RSM’s Bristol office where he spent nearly...
Bus services in Bristol operated by First West of England are to be reduced to a Saturday service from next Monday as passenger numbers continue to decline due to the coronavirus outbreak. Train services run by Great Western Railways will also be reduced from Monday by around 50%. First West...
Monday March 16 Finals: Diaceutics, PJSC Interims: CAP-XX, Ceres Power, Volution Group Tuesday March 17 Finals: ContourGlobal, Gamma Communications, Genel Energy, Harworth Group, Kape Tech, Polypipe, Smart Metering, TI Fluid Systems, Tritax Big Box, Vectura Interims: Litigation Cap, SCS Group, Softcat Economic announcement: Unemployment rate, Claimant Count Wednesday March...
Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Dianne Francombe OBE, chief executive of the West of England China Bureau, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? The Two...
