The ending of a lucrative contract with school inspector Ofsted helped push Bristol-based education support services group Tribal into a first-half loss of £8.4m. The loss, for the six months to June 30, compares to profit of £4.3m in the same period last year. Sales edged ahead from £62.1m...
Iconic sportswear brand Puma is to open a showroom in Bristol to showcase its new and upcoming collections to retail buyers. The base, which will not be accessible to the public, will be at Bath Road Studios, the landmark former HTV building which has been converted to office and...
North Somerset-based AP Burt, one of the UK’s biggest paper bag manufacturers, is predicting growth after moving premises for the first time in 80 years. The firm has relocated to a 52,000 sq ft property at First Avenue, Portbury, leaving the factory in Harbour Road, Portishead, where it first...
Bristol firms are joining organisers of Cycle to Work Day and encouraging their employees to pledge to bike to work on September 4. Tens of thousands of cyclists across the country took part in last year’s Cycle to Work Day, riding a total of a quarter of a million...
Three innovative small firms from Bristol have been included among 100 from across the country selected to attend intensive business boot camps and compete for support worth thousands of pounds. Wriggle, Grow Bristol and Talking Men’s Shoes were chosen by a panel of expert judges in The Pitch 2014,...
A 50% stake in Cabot Circus, Bristol city centre’s prime shopping development, has been bought by the property arm of French insurance giant AXA for nearly £268m. UK property giant Land Securities, which funded the development of Cabot Circus with Hammerson, released a statement saying it had exchanged contracts...
The West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has appointed Barbara Davies as its new chief executive. The LEP’s former head of place and infrastructure, Barbara Davies, pictured, has been acting as interim director since former chief executive Paul Wilson quit six weeks ago. Barbara has worked at the...
Bristol Airport has announced a £8.6m extension of its terminal – the first major expansion of the building since it opened in 14 years ago. The scheme forms the latest stage of a large-scale, phased development at the airport which will lift capacity from 6m to 10m passengers a...
Further evidence of an impending skills shortage among West firms that could threaten to derail the economic recovery has emerged from a report predicting the strongest jobs growth since 1998. The national survey by accountants BDO shows businesses’ hiring intentions rose sharply last month to surpass their pre-recession figure...
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Bristol’s iconic balloon fiesta is underway with the city’s economy expecting to land a multi-million pound boost from more than 500,000 visitors descending on Ashton Court. Now in its 36th year, the event attracts more than 100 balloons from across the world, making it one of the UK’s top...
Ryan Kerslake struggled to find a job despite a degree from Plymouth University in metalwork and glass art. After several months of being unemployed, Ryan, now 23, decided to move to Portugal to try and find a job there, but he underestimated the language barrier and had to return...
Josh Small couldn’t wait to leave school. By the time he’d reached his final exams he’d got into the wrong crowd and was continuously getting into trouble with teachers. “I didn’t enjoy school and, as a result, I didn’t get the grades that I needed to progress onto college,”...
