Chancellor Philip Hammond started his speech at 3.33pm and finished at 4.43pm. He open by saying he will deliver a Budget for “hard-working families … who live their lives far from this place … and care little for the twists and turns of Westminster politics”. Chancellor says the era...
Monday October 29 Interims: HSBC Tuesday October 30 Interims: Hunting, Reckitt Benckiser, BP, Standard Chartered, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Lufthansa, Airbus, Allergan, General Electric, Mastercard, Pfizer, eBay Wednesday October 31 Interims: General Motors, Santander, Credit Suisse Trading updates: Computercenter, Next Thursday November 1 Interims: BT, Shire, Carlsberg, Starbucks, Apple Trading...
Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees has joined city leaders from across England in calling for a radical shift of power from London to protect them against any negative impact of Brexit. At an unprecedented summit of elected mayors and city leaders in Bristol earlier this week he said only cities...
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 Tristan Hogg, co-founder and managing director of Pieminister, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Jiro Dreams of Sushi Book you read?...
Investment in Bristol’s commercial property market has soared by 47% this year, with Saudi Arabia the largest foreign investor. Investors, both domestic and from overseas, have acquired commercial properties worth £975m so far this year against £663m for the January to September period last year, according to latest research...
Bristol out-ranks London as the UK’s best place for start-ups with great opportunities for freelancers and a huge number of co-working space options, according to the results of a new survey released this week. The research carried out by price comparison website MoneySuperMarket analysed factors such as the number of...
Coach tour operator Bakers Dolphin and Empica, its PR agency for the past 20 years, have teamed up to support the creation of a new studio theatre at Bristol’s Tobacco Factory. The two firms are sponsoring seats at the multi-purpose, 86-seat performance space, which was launched this week and...
Increasing competition, rather than Brexit, is the biggest challenge facing the West’s law firms, according to new research by accountancy group Smith & Williamson. Its 2018 Law Firm Survey, developed in association with The Lawyer, reveals that negotiating the competitive landscape remains the top priority as opposed to the UK’s impending exit from the EU. Some...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT is ramping up its transformation agenda with a Future Law initiative designed to drive change more rapidly in the way it delivers legal services and products to clients. The initiative will focus on developing new solutions to client challenges in areas such as...
Bristol law firm Barcan+Kirby has strengthened its team with the appointment of two trainee solicitors. Helen Young and Holly Mehigan are both taking their first seats at the firm in the litigation and conveyancing departments respectively. Helen is new to the firm and joins with a first-class degree from...
Bristol and London law firm Temple Bright has received a flood of instructions on construction projects for existing and new schools clients across the UK. Bristol-based construction partner Julia Davenport-Cooper, pictured, who joined the firm in 2016, described a series of new appointments in the sector as evidence of...
International property agency CBRE has made a series of new appointments in its Bristol office as it celebrates 15 years in the city. James Towersey joins as director, rating, while Ben Johnson is a new associate director in the building consultancy team. Also joining is Kristen Miskella, associate director,...
The Bristol office of accountancy, tax and investment management group Smith & Williamson welcomed hundreds of art lovers to a reception to mark the opening of the Royal West of England Academy’s Annual Open Exhibition. Now in its 166th year, the exhibition takes submissions from artists at any stage of their...
