Monday 23 January Final: SThree Trading statement: Petra Diamonds AGMs: easyHotel, Redefine International EGM: Fastjet Tuesday 24 January Interims: IG Group, PZ Cussons Finals: Benchmark Holdings, Blue Prism, Crest Nicholson, Lakehouse Trading statements: Dixons Carphone, easyJet, Genel Energy AGMs: BMR Group, Marston’s, Mitchells & Butlers Economics: Public sector borrowing...
Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the area’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Donna Kehoe, the Bank of England’s South West agent, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Hail Caesar starring George Clooney. It...
International investors are shrugging off Brexit fears and targeting Bristol’s city centre office market – including apparently a multi-millionaire Russian mother who bought a £56m office block for her son. The private individual is understood to have snapped up 78,000 sq ft Bridgewater House, part of the Finzels Reach...
National specialist law firm Simpson Millar has launched an immigration law office in Bristol to meet “rocketing” demand for advice since the Brexit vote. The firm, which already has two offices in Bristol, has already seen a sharp rise in the number European nationals wanting to secure their immigration position in...
Clifton broker Venture Insurance has bought nearby-based Poole Martin in a move which will mean it placing premiums of £13m a year. The tie-up will increase staffing at Venture Insurance to 22 and comes shortly after the company moved into new offices on the corner of Whiteladies Road and...
Regional law firm Foot Anstey is to become the latest professional services firm to relocate its Bristol office, moving the short distance from 100 Victoria Street to the city’s expanding Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone. The move to the showpiece 2 Glass Wharf office, pictured, at Temple Quay comes less than...
Bristol finance along with legal and property expertise from the city has enabled expansion of a luxury holiday resort in Cornwall to go ahead. The Bristol commercial team of the Allied Irish Bank (GB) granted a multi million pound facility to Kingfisher Resorts St Ives to fund the development...
Chartered surveyor and property consultancy Sanderson Weatherall, which has an office in Bristol, has formed a specialist holiday and caravan park division. The move follows a rebrand of market leaders Edwards and Partners, a niche practice which Sanderson Weatherall acquired in 2013. The deal added Edwards and Partners’ bases...
A city centre hotel is celebrating after maintaining its position as Bristol’s best four-star venue according to the AA. The DoubleTree by Hilton, Bristol City Centre hotel, pictured, gained an overall score of 79% in what is widely regarded as one the country’s leading hotel rating systems. That means the...
Bond Dickinson, the national law firm with a large office in Bristol, has been ranked among the UK’s top five legal firms for innovation. The firms appears in the latest Best Legal Adviser Report for 2016-2017 published by online magazine Legal Week. The report scores law firms across 15...
Ultimate Finance Group, the Bristol-based independent provider of finance to UK business, has further strengthened its leadership team with four senior appointments. They arrive in their new posts following a record year of growth in 2016 for the Almondsbury-based business. The four include Jenna Forbes, who leaves GE Capital...
Ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration as US President this evening, Matt Griffith, policy director at the region’s largest business organisation Business West, looks back at his visit to the US to boost trade links with Bristol. Just before last November’s US presidential election, I joined a delegation of UK...
Confidence levels among property and construction professionals in Bristol and across the South West are the second highest in the UK, according to a new report from accountancy, investment management and tax group Smith & Williamson. Only professionals in London and the South East are more optimistic about their...
