Monday 7 September Interim: SimiGon Finals: Dechra Pharmaceuticals, Green Reit Trading statements: Associated British Foods, Betfair AGMs: Creston, Sepura EGM: Adgorithms Tuesday 8 September Interims: Curtis Banks Group, Gamma Communications, Hilton Food Group, Hydro International, Powerflute Oyj, SQS Software Quality Systems, Stadium Group Finals: Ashmore, Craneware, Frontier Developments, Genus....
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 Judith Levy, business mentor and chair of Vistage, Bristol and South West, answers our 10 questions What was the LAST: Film you watched? I moved to...
The first new road bridge across the River Avon in Bristol for more than 100 years swung into place this week – opening up the development site that will be home to the city’s long-awaited arena. The £11.3m, 63-tonne steel bridge will connect the previously isolated Arena Island to...
Kaisen, a Bristol-based boutique leadership consultancy of business psychologists, has been bought by global accountancy group Deloitte as part of its plans to launch a leadership consulting practice. Kaisen advises companies in three areas – defining leadership strategies, assessing individuals for their leadership potential and helping develop those individuals....
A former Army officer who worked on peace-keeping missions with NATO in Kosovo and Iraq has launched a business to help resolve conflict on an altogether different battlefield – the workplace. Felix Spender, who also helped gain the release of over 100 hostages captured by Somalian pirates, knows the...
Corporate teams from the Bristol offices of accountants Grant Thornton and law firm TLT have advised shareholders of specialist buying group Vetswest on its multi-million pound sale to major US-based veterinary supplies wholesaler. Devon-based Vetswest, which supplies ancillary services to vets’ practices across the UK as well as acting...
Malachy McReynolds, the former managing director of Bristol-based chocolate manufacturer Elizabeth Shaw, has stepped down as chief executive of not-for-profit organisation WE Care & Repair. He will be succeeded by Kevin Snowball, who joins from Bristol-based Simplyhealth’s Independent Living division, where he spent more than seven years as managing...
Bristol-headquartered law firm Burges Salmon has been accredited with the prestigious Investors in People (IiP) Gold Standard in recognition of its commitment to supporting and developing its employees. IiP is a management framework for high performance through people and its accreditation is recognised as a mark of excellence. IiP...
Bristol-headquartered law firm TLT has advised Smart Transactions Group, the UK leader in contactless payments and ticketing, on the multi-million pound sale of its West of England subsidiary to Japanese IT giant Fujitsu. The acquisition of ACT (Applied Card Technologies), based near Chippenham, paves the way for Fujitsu and...
Shares in SciSys, one of the region’s largest and longest-established specialist IT firms, rose today after it said it had resolved a potentially damaging funding crisis. In June the firm, which has a base in Brislington, warned it was at risk of breaching its banking covenants in August. Within...
Bristol businesses are helping the South West buck the national trend for exporting, with the value of overseas sales from the region rising while the national figure decreases. Data released today by HM Revenue and Customs shows that the value of UK exports decreased by 2.6% to £285bn in...
Passenger numbers at Bristol Airport soared to a new record of more than three quarters of a million last month as new scheduled services took off and the market for foreign holidays recovered strongly from the recession. Some 768,587 travellers passed through the terminal in August – up 6%...
Four new team members have joined Synergy Creative, the Bristol-based internal communications and creative design agency, following significant growth and a host of new client wins. Brooke Nolan has been appointed marketing manager, Neil Bartlett as senior designer, Neneh Pepperell as account manager and Gary Walder as account director....
