Applications for the coveted South West Fairtrade Business Awards close this weekend and Bristol firms that support fair and ethical business practices are being urged to enter before Sunday’s deadline. The unique awards – now in their fourth year – champion firms that put ethical responsibilities at the heart...
Neighbourly, the Bristol-based innovative community-business connector, has been recognised as one of Britain’s most disruptive companies. The firm, which is based at Bristol’s Engine Shed innovation hub, appears in global publisher Bloomberg’s Business Innovators list alongside business game-changers such as Deliveroo, Crowdcube, GoCardless, Secret Escapes, MADE.com and Metro Bank....
National specialist recruitment firm FD Recruit has appointed Nigel Banks to head the business in the South West Nigel Banks, pictured, a senior financial recruitment specialist with over 18 year’s industry experience, is responsible for further developing FD Recruit’s successful South West and South Wales operation. The firm specialises...
Directors at SciSys, the specialist IT firm with an office in Bristol, have insisted its recovery is now well established and last year’s problems are behind it. In a trading update to the London Stock Exchange this week, they said they were encouraged by the group’s performance in the...
Airbus has also landed a highly lucrative – and significant – order for 118 aircraft from Iran as the Middle East country rebuilds its post-sanctions economy. The order – worth $27bn (£18.7bn) at list prices – spans Airbus’s entire range from short-haul, single-aisle aircraft to the A380 superjumbo, the...
Aerospace group Airbus is to build an industry-leading £38m wing testing centre at its giant Filton, Bristol, plant, it said yesterday in an announcement timed to coincide with a visit by Chancellor George Osborne. Some £18.6m of the investment in the new wing integration centre at Filton will come...
Two West of England lawyers have been named in the ‘Hot 100’ – the industry’s annual listing of the best in the business. John Westwell, managing partner of regional law firm Foot Anstey, and Bristol-based Osborne Clarke partner Catherine Wolfenden, appear in the list compiled by leading industry title...
Alan Bennett, a partner at West of England law firm Ashfords, has become the new for the South West & Wales chair of R3, the insolvency trade body. In his new role Alan, pictured, a partner in Ashfords’ restructuring and insolvency team, will provide support to R3 members in...
Monday 25 January Interim: 1pm Finals: Porvair, SThree Trading statements: Cranswick, Petra Diamonds AGMs: Avacta, Elegant Hotels, Sinclair Pharma Economics: CBI trends total orders, selling prices, business optimism Tuesday 26 January Interim: PZ Cussons Final: Crest Nicholson Trading statements: Card Factory, Carpetright, Dixons Carphone, easyJet, Intermediate Capital, Stock Spirits...
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 Emma Stenning, chief executive at Bristol Old Vic, which celebrates its 250th anniversary this year and is in the final phase of its fundraising to complete its redevelopment,...
Bristol’s tech and creative sectors will spark a revolution in the city’s commercial property market this year as their fast-growing firms look for a new generation of trendy offices, according to agents JLL. Demand from the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sector continues to dominate the market with around...
Bristol-based retail management software firm Brightpearl is poised for another period of rapid growth after raising $11m (£7.67m) in its latest round of financing. The firm, which launched nine years ago in Bristol’s highly successful SETsquared innovation incubator, will use the funding to accelerate the growth of its sales...
