Accountancy group EY is continuing to expand its financial services (FS) business in Bristol and across its South West and Wales region with the appointment of Ed Bujok-Stone as head of financial services advisory and Raj Saundh as head of actuarial. Ed, who has spent the past eight years...
Monday October 1 Trading update: Shaftesbury Economic announcement: Manufacturing PMI (September) Tuesday October 2 Economic announcement: Construction PMI (September) Wednesday October 3 Interim: Tesco Trading updates: ITE Group, Topps Tiles, Grainger Economic announcement: Services PMI (September) Thursday October 4 Finals: DX Group, DFS Furniture Interims: Ted Baker, Constellation Brands...
TrueSpeed Communications, which was started by three investors fed up with poor broadband in their homes, has won the regional stage of a major enterprise award scheme. Having been launched four years ago, Keynsham-based TrueSpeed last year received a £75m investment from insurance giant Aviva which enabled it to...
Bristol not-for-profit business support organisation BRAVE Enterprise is running a series of practical training workshops during October to help promote, protect and grow small businesses. The sessions, which are being held at BRAVE’s offices in Upper York Street, include: Starting in Business Workshop Date: October 24 Time: 10am –...
Audit, tax and consulting firm RSM has taken on 13 new trainees in its Bristol office as part of a 13% increase in trainee recruitment across its Southern region. The new Bristol recruits are among 320 new starters appointed nationally by RSM in its 35 UK offices. Almost a...
More opportunities potentially worth billions of pounds will open up for Bristol firms currently in the supply chain for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant following its completion, according to a former business secretary. Lord Hutton, pictured, who as John Hutton served between June 2007 and October 2008 under...
Wealth management and corporate and institutional broking firm WHIreland has made two key appointments in Bristol as it continues to build its team in the city. Chris Savidge joins as a corporate finance executive and Joe Harker as an investment manager on the wealth management side. Chris arrives from...
Bristol public relations agency Empica has strengthened its digital and online team with the appointment of two new staff members. Becki Couch and George Watts have joined as a digital marketing assistant and a videographer respectively. Becki, who has a degree in Film and Media Arts, will manage online content...
A new welcome space for visitors to a community food-growing project has been created by more than 100 employees from Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon’s operations department. The two-week project, the second in collaboration with Avon Wildlife Trust, involved the Burges Salmon volunteer workforce clearing and replacing old...
Specialist intellectual property (IP) firm Mewburn Ellis has further expanded its Bristol team with the appointment of partner Andrew Mears. A qualified patent attorney in the UK, Europe and Singapore, Andrew, pictured, joins Mewburn Ellis’s well-established engineering group from rival Withers & Rogers’ Bristol office, where he worked for...
Monday September 24 Trading update: Pennon Tuesday September 25 Finals: Close Brothers, Hotel Chocolat Interims: Next, AG Barr, Card Factory, Moss Bros, Nike Trading updates: Carnival, Thomas Cook, United Utilities Wednesday September 26 Interims: AA, Boohoo.com, Bed Bath & Beyond Trading updates: Mitie, Grainger, PZ Cussons Thursday September 27...
Bristol’s reputation as a centre of excellence for the global aerospace industry was given a boost this week as Rolls-Royce unveiled a multi-million pound plant developing unique vertical lift engine technology. The £20m state-of-the-art LiftWorks facility on the UK engineering giant’s Filton site is already producing the company’s world-beating...
Bristol-based defence consultancy and technology firm Techmodal has secured another three-year contract with the Army to deliver ongoing support and enhancements to its VERITAS product. VERITAS is an innovative planning and forecasting product created by Techmodal for the Army. It is used by the Support Directorate in Army HQ...
