Bristol business owners can connect with experienced enterprise mentors at an event next week which aims to share experience and skills to benefit small and medium-sized firms. The free Meet A Mentor session on June 9 takes place at AtBristol on Harbourside and is being staged by Lloyds Banking Group...
Monday June 1 Finals: GB, Syqic Trading statement: SVG Capital AGMs: CPP, Keywords Studios, Silence Therapeutics EGM: Euromoney Institutional Investor Economics: Market UK PMI – manufacturing Tuesday June 2 Interim: RWS Finals: Acal, AO World, First Derivatives, Londonmetric Property, Synergy Health Trading statements: Amec Foster Wheeler, Harvey Nash, Wolseley...
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 John David, Head of Rathbone Greenbank Investments, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? The Grand Budapest Hotel. I live in the...
South Bristol is set for an economic and jobs boost following the official opening this week of the £12m Filwood Green Business Park. The city council claims hundreds of jobs could be created on the business park – a flagship project of Bristol’s year as European Green Capital which...
Four more summer holiday routes have been added to Bristol Airport’s rapidly-lengthening destination board following the decision by travel giants Thomson and First Choice to add a third aircraft to their fleet at the airport. The move means the holiday firms, both part of TUI UK and Ireland, will...
Innovative Bristol firm YellowDog, which believes it can create the world’s fastest super-computer by using spare computing power from PCs and laptops, is looking to raise £150,000 in crowdfunding. The firm, based in the Engine Shed innovation hub, is already using the system to help animators who need extra...
A new series of the successful CBeebies show Andy’s Prehistoric Adventures is the latest production to begin filming at Bristol’s Bottle Yard Studios. The third series of the popular show which will comprise 25 episodes, combines BBC archive footage with the latest digital CGI and green-screen technology to send...
PR, digital and creative agency Purplex Marketing has built on its Google Partner status with two members of its digital team completing the Google Adwords programme. Jennifer Hearn and Edward Billett passed the exams with flying colours. Weston-super-Mare-based Purplex provides a complete PPC (pay-per-click) service which includes sponsored links...
Las Iguanas, the Bristol-based Latin American restaurant group, has achieved certificates of excellence from TripAdvisor for two thirds of its eligible outlets. Some 22 branches of the national chain, which launched in 1991 when it opened its first restaurant in St Nicholas Street, Bristol, are now ranked in the...
Bristol investment specialist Alpha Portfolio Management has recruited Tony Mann from rival WH Ireland to spearhead expansion of its private client offering. Mr Mann, described by Alpha as a “seasoned professional”, will be joined by his assistant Jane Mann and his son and fellow longstanding WH Ireland employee, wealth...
Regional law firm Foot Anstey has advised Weston College on its sponsorship of Weston-super-Mare primary school Herons’ Moor Academy through its Inspirational Futures Trust. The academy has joined the multi-academy trust set in a move that further strengthens the links between key education institutions in North Somerset. The trust...
Bristol IT firm Solsoft has relocated from Clifton – its home for 15 years – into the city centre, taking space in the Queen Charlotte House office scheme, close to Queen Square. The company, which pioneered the delivery of the IT managed services model to small firms across the...
Bristol firms are being encouraged to establish closer trading partnerships with their counterparts in the South West’s sister region in China following the signing of a major new agreement. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Guangdong Provincial Government and the Bristol & West of England China Bureau is...
