Interest rates have been increased from 0.5% to 0.75% by the Bank of England – taking them to their highest level for nearly a decade. It is only the only the second time the Bank has hiked the cost of borrowing since the economy crashed 10 years ago. Most...
Bristol Airport’s new chief executive officer Dave Lees took up his post today with a pledge to work with businesses, politicians and local communities to build on the airport’s success and oversee its next phase of growth. Mr Lees, pictured, joins from of Southampton Airport where he was managing...
Bristol-based national law firm Burges Salmon has maintained its sector-leading trainee retention rate by offering positions to all but one of its 27 final-year trainee solicitors when they qualify in September. The 96% rate is much higher than the industry average of just under 80%. Last year Burges Salmon...
Monday July 30 Interims: Hiscox, Keller, Reach, Foxtons, Caterpillar, Loews Corp, Electronic Arts Trading Update: Cranswick Tuesday July 31 Interims: Thomas Cooke, BP, Centrica, Standard Chartered, Shire, Provident Financial, Rentokil Initial, Weir Group, Greggs, Taylor Wimpey, Travis Perkins, Fresnillo, Credit Suisse, Proctor & Gamble, Pfizer, Apple Trading Update: Glencore,...
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 Alex Hall, Maxine Bennett, a director at Bristol-based independent interior design consultancy Wylde IA, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? A...
Bristol’s industrial property sector is enjoying its most significant speculative industrial building period ever while its buoyant city centre office market is about to achieve another record rent. According to a number of recent reports on the city’s commercial property market, Bristol is increasingly competing against larger UK cities...
More than 100 artists are exhibiting their work this weekend as The Other Art Fair returns to the city for a fourth time. Staged in The Passenger Shed at Temple Meads for the first time, it is aimed at a new generation of art buyers with a diverse range...
Brightpearl, the retail management software firm that is one of the stars of Bristol’s tech sector, has completed its latest funding round for further growth and appointed a high-profile chairman. The firm, which launched 11 years ago in Bristol’s highly successful SETsquared innovation incubator, has received $15m (£11.4m), which...
Businesses and individuals working in the sustainability sector will be able to get an update on Bristol’s pioneering City Leap project at an event next week. Bristol City Council aims to bring in potential partners from across the world to help the city become carbon neutral by 2050. It...
Bristol’s free street art festival Upfest has a larger area to showcase its artists’ talents when it takes place this weekend thanks to the support of a local developer. Firmstone Consortia One’s backing for the event, the largest of its kind in Europe’s, means it can extend further down Bedminster’s East...
Shareholders in leading organic children’s clothing maker Frugi have used expertise from regional law firm Ashfords and the Bristol office of national accountancy group BDO in their sale of a majority stake in the business. Frugi, which designs, manufactures and sells sustainably-sourced organic cotton apparel and accessories for babies,...
Bristol-headquartered national communications consultancy JBP is to move from its Clifton base – its home for 23 years – into the city centre as it gears up for further growth. The firm was launched in 1984 by Jennifer Bryant-Pearson with a single office in Bristol – making it the...
Energy sector experts from Bristol law firm Burges Salmon have advised National Australia Bank (NAB) and Santander UK on the £86m financing of a portfolio of onshore wind projects across England. The Burges Salmon team was led by banking partner Nathan Curtis and provided a wide range of legal...
