The Manufacturing Advisory Service has appointed a supply chain specialist in the South West to ensure that manufacturers gain a significant share of the lucrative opportunities presented by the UK’s burgeoning offshore wind market. Nick Kirsop-Taylor, pictured, will help firms tap into the recently-launched £20m GROW:OffshoreWind service that supports...
National book retailer Waterstones has appointed Bristol-headquartered law firm Burges Salmon as sole real estate adviser to its store portfolio across the UK. Burges Salmon’s real estate team will provide Waterstones with property management legal work generated by its stores until 2016. This will include contentious and non-contentious real...
A forward funding deal to develop a £3.1m medical centre in Bristol has been arranged by primary care specialists at the city office of property advisers GVA. Acting on behalf of Bristol construction group Kitto, GVA concluded the deal with Primary Health Properties (PHP), the UK’s leading investor in...
Hartnell Taylor Cook, the Bristol-based chartered surveying firm, has appointed Stuart Howell as its new managing partner. Mr Howell, pictured, takes over from John Rand, who has successfully led the business for five years – a period which has been one of the most difficult experienced by the UK...
Veteran national history broadcaster Sir David Attenborough is be awarded Bristol’s highest honour – the freedom of the city – at a special ceremony next week. The 86-year-old naturalist, film-maker and former BBC senior manager, pictured, is widely recognised as the world’s greatest natural history programme maker and has...
Monday 9 December Interim: Anite Finals: Alternative Networks, Jelf Group, RWS Holdings, Treatt AGMs: Conroy Gold & Natural Resources, Karelian Diamond Resources Tuesday 10 December Interims: Ashtead, Carpetright, Iomart, Photo-Me International Finals: Tui Travel, Victrex, Zytronic Trading statement: Whitbread AGMs: Billing Services, Debenhams, Tristel, Utilitywise, Weatherly International Economics: Royal...
Bristol is in the driving seat for world-class innovation and creativity following the transformation of the Engine Shed at Brunel’s original Temple Meads station into a hi-tech enterprise hub, guests at its official opening were told. The building, once Bristol’s gateway to the world, has been transformed into a...
A sketch by Bristol animator Nick Park of his Oscar-winning characters Wallace and Gromit has raised more than £6,000 for youth charity The Prince’s Trust. The 210cms by 295cms watercolour and ink on paper drawing Wallace Pours The Tea was among works from more than 70 renowned artists auctioned...
Bristol-based design and innovation consultancy Kinneir Dufort has been selected as one of the top 100 UK companies to spearhead the Government’s new creative industries taskforce. Kinneir Dufort, a user research, innovation, creative design and development consultancy, will now help to encourage another 100,000 UK businesses to export over...
Precision Profiles, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of steel and non-ferrous materials to the manufacturing and construction industries, has secured 32,300 sq ft of industrial space in Bristol, The firm has acquired the long leasehold on a warehouse and office space on the Brislington Trading Estate. The property,...
Long-standing cultural and business group Bristol China Partnership is changing its name to the West of England China Bureau, reflecting its widening reach and a new focus on business links. Chief executive Dianne Francombe said the move will highlight the organisation’s emerging role in forging links within the world’s...
Bristol is one of only two UK cities and four from Europe to be invited to join a new global network of 100 ‘resilient cities’ run by the Rockefeller Foundation in the US. As a result it will gain access to vital support and potential funding to help develop...
Investors are keen to get involved with Bristol’s ambitious media and creative businesses, a high-profile panel discussion led by some of the city’s best-known names in the industry has heard. The event, staged by the Bristol office of accountancy and investment management group Smith & Williamson, attracted film-makers, animators,...
