Accountancy, investment management and tax group Smith & Williamson has sponsored the newly-refurbished European Old Masters Gallery at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. More than Over 350 guests, including many clients and contacts of the firm, attended the launch reception and re-opening, with the focal point Rembrandt’s ‘Self Portrait...
Property group Andrews’ use of social media and its commitment to local communities earned it a hat-trick of trophies at the prestigious Lettings Agency of the Year Awards. The Keynsham-based firm, which has offices across the South of England, landed Bronze in the Large Lettings Agency of the Year...
A tongue-in-cheek marketing campaign about ‘beard insurance’ has landed Bristol-based insurer SunLife a top industry award. The April Fool’s spoof beat off competition from NatWest and M&G Investments to win Best Use of Social Media at the Money Marketing Awards. The campaign – with the tagline ‘reassurance of knowing...
National property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) has made two senior promotions in its Bristol office. Danielle Kirk is now director in the property management team while Craig Wallace has been promoted from senior surveyor to associate director in the valuation and public sector services team. Danielle, pictured, who...
National law firm Bond Dickinson, which has its second largest office in Bristol, has struck an exclusive transatlantic strategic alliance with a top 100 US law firm. The formal tie-up with Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, the 88th largest firm in the US by lawyer numbers, was described by...
Bosses running West of England firms are almost three times more likely to vote in favour of remaining in the EU than leave – with the gap between the two views widening over the past three months. The latest snap survey by Business West – the region’s largest business...
Commercial property specialist Colliers International’s Bristol-based industrial & logistics team has been expanded in response to rising demand for warehouses. Over the past six months the team has been involved in a number of major deals including representing German supermarket group Lidl in its purchase of 33 acres at...
Monday 13 June Final: Schroder Real Estate Tuesday 14 June Interims: Crest Nicholson, Servoca Finals: Abenza, Ashtead, CML Microsystems, Falkland Island, FirstGroup, Halma, Market Tech, Norcros, Park, Shield Therapeutics, Telecom Plus, Trifast Trading statement: Ted Baker AGMs: Dillistone, Inspired Energy, Premier Farnell, Pro Global Insurance Solutions, Synairgen, Ted Baker,...
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 Savita Custead, director of Bristol and Bath Festival of Nature – which starts this weekend – answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you...
Three bosses running businesses in the Bristol area have won Director of the Year awards in the prestigious annual event staged by the IoD. Mark Crutchley, director of Circadian Trust, a social enterprise that delivers sport and leisure facilities in partnership with South Gloucestershire Council, won the Third Sector...
Luis Garcia is to step down as Bristol Water CEO after seven years in the job to rejoin international utility group Suez in a senior role. Luis, pictured, has devoted his entire career to the water industry, most of it working for subsidiaries of Suez. The French-headquartered group owns...
Engine Shed, Bristol’s innovation hub, is staging the second in its finance series later this month with accountancy group PwC gauging the outlook for venture capital funding. This is a must-attend event for those wishing to understand the venture capital landscape in both the UK and US and will be especially...
Three very different Bristol organisations are among the finalists in a unique competition to find the region’s happiest workplace. Representing the city on the shortlist are Rethink Recruitment, Paper and Shiner. They will now line up against two other firms – one each from Swindon and Bath – in...
