Low-cost airline easyJet is to base a 13th aircraft at Bristol Airport next year as it continues to expand its route network. The airline, the UK’s largest short-haul operator, has launched nine new destinations from Bristol this year and is to add a further three next year, taking its...
Monday 16 November Interims: Majestic Wine, Schroder Real Estate Final: Diploma Trading statements: FBD, Ithaca Energy, Keller, Taylor Wimpey AGMs: Tanfield, Transense Technologies EGMs: Impellam, Lekoil, Scapa Economics: Rightmove house prices Tuesday 17 November Interims: Big Yellow, blinx, British Land, Carclo, Halma, Homeserve, Intermediate Capital, McKay Securities, Renold, Sepura,...
Love the Future of Fashion, staged in The Lantern, Colston Hall, challenged the idea of consuming for consuming’s sake. Offering gorgeous alternatives to fashion as we know it it also served as a after party for TEDxBristol, which took place earlier in the day in the main auditorium. It...
Bristol Energy Cooperative has launched a £5m fundraising campaign for its largest portfolio of solar projects so far. The projects will include two community solar farms and installations on 20 more community building across the Bristol city-region. The co-op has used the money raised in its previous share offers...
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 Mark Crutchley, chief executive of Circadian Trust, which operates sports and leisure centres in South Gloucestershire, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you...
Devolving power over transport, housing and taxes from Westminster to the West of England would boost the economy and help Bristol firms thrive, according to survey results released today. Some 69% of the region’s business leaders backed the idea of giving responsibility for these services to local authorities. Fifty-three...
OVO, the Bristol-based energy supplier, is to boost its community links by becoming the latest business to join the social platform run from the city by pioneering firm Neighbourly. The highly innovative platform links community projects with companies that want to make a difference. Neighbourly will now help OVO...
Blue Badge Company, the Bristol firm that designs and makes a range of stylish living aids, has been shortlisted for its first national awards. Director Ellen Green has been selected in two categories of the Great British Entrepreneur Awards in recognition of the firm’s products, which are transforming the...
Bristol-based specialist software firm BOXARR, which works with global aerospace and defence groups, is to significantly accelerate its growth plans after receiving investment of £2m. The funding will allow the firm, the world’s leading provider of Interdependent Systems Management (ISM) software, to extend its geographical reach and advance its...
The DoubleTree by Hilton, Bristol City Centre, hotel is to extend its conference and meeting rooms and add further bedrooms as demand continues to spiral in the city. The four-star hotel in Redcliffe Way said there had been a “significant upturn” in its conference business recently while room occupancy...
The first phase of a speculative development of industrial and distribution units in Clevedon has been sold before construction has finished – an indicator, say its letting agents, of strong demand for business space in the area. Work on the three units at Westfield Park, sized between just over...
Tim Illston, a partner at Bristol-headquartered law firm Burges Salmon, was today appointed as the new Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bristol. Tim, pictured, has taken over from the previous Honorary Consul Ann Newby, who is retiring. He was sworn in at a ceremony –...
Regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming, which has an office in Bristol, has chalked up another year of strong growth to lift it further up the rankings in its sector. Revenues climbed by 5% with fee income exceeding £17.5m for the first time – taking the firm from 38th to...
