Engine Shed, Bristol’s highly successful innovation hub, is recruiting to scale up its own activities and prepare for its expansion into Engine Shed 2. After three hectic years since it opened, Engine Shed now qualifies as a ‘scale-up company’, according to the definition used by the UK’s Scale Up...
Bristol businesses looking to expand into high-growth global markets will receive enhanced advice and support following the signing of four new international partnership agreements by Business West. The organisation, which runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Bristol Initiative, is the largest international trade support body in the South West....
Chancellor Philip Hammond is being urged to tear up the rule book on business rates and introduce a much fairer form of local corporation tax in his Budget next week. The plea comes from Bristol-based regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming. It wants to see an urgent and radical reform...
A cross-sector firm team from Bristol-headquartered law firm Burges Salmon has been appointed to advise the Cayman Islands government on a long-term public–private partnership waste management contract. The team is partnering with Maples and Calder, the largest firm on the islands, on the procurement and financing of a 25-year...
South West independent property consultancy Alder King has promoted three of its Bristol office staff to associates. Emma Smith and Tom Dugay from the firm’s award-winning agency team, and Catherine Norris from the planning team, took up their new roles this week. Tom joined Alder King as a graduate...
Tickets for Friday’s South West Fairtrade Business Awards ceremony are now on sale as the full line-up of speakers is announced for the high-profile event. The prestigious awards – now in their fifth year – showcase organisations across the region for their commitment to using and promoting fairly traded...
Philip Thompson, a former in-house legal director for national housebuilder Bovis, has joined the Bristol office of national law firm Clarke Willmott as a partner in its commercial property team. Philip joins from the Bristol office of international law firm Osborne Clarke where he was divisional legal director. He...
National law firm Bond Dickinson, which has its second largest office in Bristol, has been re-appointed to The Crown Estate’s two-firm energy, minerals and infrastructure legal panel to advise on its minerals and infrastructure portfolio. The firm, which also advises on The Crown Estate’s rural and coastal portfolio, will continue...
Property advisory firm CBRE has appointed Tom Morris as associate director of the capital markets team in its Bristol office. Tom, pictured, has moved into his new role from CBRE’s valuation team. He will now be responsible for advising clients on the acquisition and disposal of their real estate...
The UK’s most active provider of growth capital to small and mid-sized businesses, BGF (Business Growth Fund), is continuing to expand its team covering the South West with the appointment of James Skade as an investor. Before joining BGF, James, pictured, spent five years at accountancy group EY, most...
Monday 27 February Interims: Dechra Pharmaceuticals, MJ Gleeson Finals: Ascential, Bunzl, Dialight, FBD Holdings, Hiscox, Keller, McColl’s Retail Group, Persimmon, Quartix Holdings, Rotork, RTC Group, Senior, Trinity Mirror Trading statement: Associated British Foods AGM: Formation Group EGM: Alexander Mining Tuesday 28 February Interims: Go-Ahead Group, Redde, Revolution Bars, Ricardo,...
World-class innovation hubs in and around Bristol specialising in sectors ranging from aerospace and automotive to food and drink are a step closer following the announcement of extra growth funding for the West of England from the government. The pioneering centres have been included on a list of schemes...
Bristol PR consultant Neil Whitehead and learning and development professional Jane Davidson have drawn on their decades of experience to launch a simple, easy-to-use way for managers to communicate with a mobile workforce. Called VOZ, it is downloaded to workers’ smartphones so they can receive targeted information anytime, anywhere....
