SCISYS, the specialist IT group with a base in Bristol, has appointed Natasha Laird to its board as an executive director and general counsel with immediate effect. Natasha, pictured, joined the Chippenham-headquartered group as general counsel in 2014 and has been company secretary since September 2016. She is the...
Bristol recruitment agency Heat has been awarded the highest accolade for workplace engagement in the highly-regarded ‘Best Companies Survey’. The three-star accreditation reflects an ‘extraordinary’ level of engagement at the firm, according to the b-Heard, the company that stages the annual survey. Employees are quizzed on eight factors of...
Bristol Airport has said it will create more than 1,000 jobs over the next decade as part of its further development to enable it to handle 12m passengers a year. The scheme, which has just been submitted to North Somerset Council planners, would also generate an additional £1.4bn for...
To cynical observers such as BrandSoup, the festive season may hold few surprises – the same old songs, the same old traditions, the same old advertising campaigns. And that’s precisely why we love it so much: it’s a beacon of consistency and reliability in a fast-moving, uncertain world. So...
Bristol’s insolvency professionals raised more than £4,000 for charity after getting their thinking caps on for a quiz night hosted by accountancy, tax and investment management group Smith & Williamson. The ‘Nearly Christmas Charity Quiz’ has been held by the firm’s restructuring and recovery services department in Bristol for...
More than 300 jobs have been axed a week before Christmas at Bristol-headquartered national truck hire firm Gulliver’s following the appointment of administrators. Gulliver’s Truck Hire, which was established in 1960, operated a UK-wide truck hire business with a fleet of around 4,500 vehicles available on short and long-term...
An online gift card developed by Bristol-based eCommerce firm Koan is helping more than 3,000 retailers build sales this Christmas. Koan, which is based at UWE’s Future Space tech and health innovation hub, developed Gift Up! last year to allow retailers to use on their own websites to quickly...
A Yorkshire-based entrepreneur has stepped in to save Bristol’s Bloodhound supersonic car project days after it was axed by administrators. Ian Warhurst, owner of Barnsley car parts firm Melett, has bought the assets and business of the Avonmouth-based project – which had hoped to set a world land vehicle...
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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 Sally Larkin, centre manager at Access Creative College Bristol, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Cadillac Records on DVD and, in...
MEET South West, the exhibition and conference showcase that will make its debut in January, has been boosted through a series of partnerships with key business organisations in the region. Among those endorsing the inaugural event are Bristol Airport, GWR, Bristol-based film production company Floating Harbour and Bristol Business...
Bristol-headquartered international environmental consultancy Eunomia Research & Consulting is to open a new European HQ in Athens and bolster its existing Brussels base as it prepares for Brexit. The firm, which has clients across Europe including the European Commission, said the move supported a growing demand for public and...
Pioneering Bristol start-up KETS has raised investment of more than £2m to develop a range of future-proof digital security technologies capable of protecting huge amounts of essential data. The University of Bristol spin-out aims to become the digital security operating system, protecting digital information and critical infrastructure. While quantum...
