Warmley-based brewery Bath Ales has won another trophy for its beer – this time taking home silver from the national Campaign for Real Ale’s (CAMRA) Winter Beer of Britain awards this week for its Festivity porter. Coming second only to the overall Supreme Champion winner, Festivity was awarded the...
National specialist recruitment firm BCL Legal has appointed Georgina Inson as a senior associate in its Bristol office. Georgina, pictured, will handle non-contentious commercial roles in the city, including real estate, commercial and corporate opportunities. She has worked in legal recruitment for five years and held positions at Hays...
The Bristol office of property advisers CBRE has strengthened its national asset services team with the appointment of Mark Evans as senior surveyor. He joins from rival Alder King’s office in the city, where he worked as a surveyor. Mark said: “I am thrilled to be joining CBRE at...
Some of Bristol’s biggest businesses have joined forces with seven Rotary Clubs across the city to support a campaign to immunise 125,000 children against polio. The 11 firms are backing Rotary’s End Polio Now campaign, part of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) which is looking to eradicate polio...
Burges Salmon, the Bristol-headquartered law firm, has been appointed by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) to its newly-created legal panel. The firm will provide the FSCS with a range of legal services as one of eight firms appointed to the panel to manage the majority of its legal...
Firms in the Bristol area are being urged to enter one of the region’s top award schemes showcasing excellence and enterprise in business. The prestigious Institute of Directors’ South West Director of the Year Awards 2015 seek to recognise outstanding business people and focus UK-wide attention on success in...
Bristol Cider Shop is celebrating being crowned the UK’s top cider retailer – cementing its standing as one of the city’s top independent stores. The shop, one of the first dedicated cider outlets in the country when it opened on Christmas Steps in December 2010, won the Independent Cider...
Monday 9 February Final: Randgold Resources EGMs: Kofax, Tissue Regenix Tuesday 10 February Finals: Catlin, entu, Millennium & Copthorne Hotels Trading statements: Bellway, Cable & Wireless Communications, ICAP AGM: RWS Holdings Economics: BRC sales, Industrial production, Manufacturing output, NIESR GDP estimate (January) Wednesday 11 February Interims: City of London...
THE LAST WORD Each week Bristol Business News lets a prominent member of the area’s business community have the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Fiona Francombe, site director at The Bottle Yard Studios, answers our 10 questions: What was the LAST: Film you watched? Sliding Doors...
ClusterHQ, the innovative Bristol-based company pioneering cutting-edge technology used by software developers, has raised £8m from two US tech funds to recruit more staff and place its products on the world stage. ClusterHQ, formerly called HybridCluster and once described as among the most exciting to come out of Bristol...
Business West, the organisation behind the Bristol Chamber of Commerce and Bristol Initiative, has welcomed plans for greater collaboration between Cardiff, Bristol and Newport – but it wants the focus to remain on regional plans which are already in place. Bristol, Cardiff and Newport this week joined together under...
The innovative smart city initiative Bristol Is Open has received unanimous support from the city council cabinet, enabling the University of Bristol’s research and council-owned infrastructure to come together for the first time. As report by Bristol Business News last week, Bristol Is Open will manage the Open Programmable City...
Two Bristol engineers have been nominated for inclusion in a prestigious ‘hall of fame’ which brings together and celebrates the most inspiring and innovative figures in British engineering. Joel Gibbard, the founder of Open Bionics based at the Technology Business Incubator at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, and Mark Chapman, chief...
