Bristol’s outstanding entrepreneurs and business leaders have just two weeks left to enter the region’s top awards scheme that recognises excellence and enterprise in the boardroom. The annual Institute of Directors’ South West Director of the Year Awards showcase the wealth of executive talent in the region. Bristol Business...
Bristol-headquartered law firm Burges Salmon has appointed five new partners across key growth areas including real estate, environment, pensions and banking. The promotions, which take effect from May 1, take the firm’s total number of partners to 85. Burges Salmon said the move reflected the firm’s work in a...
Monday 14 March Finals: Applegreen, Ascential, Fevertree Drinks, Frenkel Topping AGM: Armour Tuesday 15 March Interims: Kalibrate Technologies, Range Resources Finals: Balfour Beatty, Bango, Cairn Energy, Curtis Banks, French Connection, Futura Medical, Gym, Hansteen, Hastings, Huntsworth, Inchcape, Kalibrate Technologies, Legal & General, Mears, Premier Technical Services, SDL, Stadium, Zotefoams...
Legal experts said the Trunki case would have far-reaching implications, particularly over the use of Community-registered designs, which are meant to be a cheap and effective way for business to protect their designs. Magmatic’s registered design showed computer-aided drawings of the Trunki which included some shading and dark colours...
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 Steven Whibley, co-owner of Pinkmans Bakery on Park Street, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Ant Man for some reason, helped...
A luxury addition has been made to the Marco Pierre White Steakhouse Bar & Grill in Congresbury following the official opening of a £200,000 garden room. A special launch event for the new venue was held with Miss Bristol International Gabriella Papp cutting the ribbon to mark the occasion....
More than 80 business leaders attended a private hustings at Leigh Court to hear from three candidates ahead of the Bristol Mayoral Election in May. The event, organised by Business West, the Bristol Junior Chamber (BJC) and the Institute of Directors (IoD), gave businesses the chance to hear from...
National transport planning consultancy Vectos has opened an office in Bristol in a move it says underlines its confidence in the West region’s economy. The base in Prince Street will employ seven people. The firm has also chosen Bristol to launch its new drainage, flood risk and hydrology offer....
Bristol has been named as the UK’s European City of Sport for 2017 – a year-long celebration of the part sport plays in every aspect of life across its many and diverse communities. The prestigious award was secured by the new Bristol Partnership for Sport and Active Recreation with...
Bristol’s Filwood Green Business Park has achieved a top sustainability rating, recognising it as a leading environmentally friendly building. The site received its latest BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ rating, placing it as one of the most environmentally friendly industrial buildings in the UK. BREEAM is the world’s leading assessment method for...
Photographer Jo Hansford was at the International Women’s Day/Fairtrade breakfast at Triodos Bank’s Bristol head office which brought together 25 of the city’s leading women from a wide range of organisations.
Twenty-five of Bristol’s leading women sat down for breakfast and stood up for farmers at a special Fairtrade breakfast to celebrate International Women’s Day. The women were joined by Ana Maria Gonzalez, a coffee farmer with the Fairtrade SOPPEXXCA Co-op in Nicaragua. The event, staged at ethical bank Triodos’...
Bristol’s start-ups and young entrepreneurial businesses can book themselves onto a flight path for growth across the UK and into Europe under a new scheme launched this week offering free airline tickets. Seats for Start Ups – a partnership between bmi regional, Bristol’s award-winning Engine Shed innovation hub and...
