Bristol businesses are being urged to help bring about a sea change in the way the city’s central hospitals care for patients by supporting the Above & Beyond appeal. Some £6m is being sought through the appeal to transform Bristol’s cancer centre (BHOC, the Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre)...
An office building on Portishead’s Gordano Gate Business Park has been sold to a private investor for £600,000 in a deal handled by the Bristol offices of property consultants Alder King and Savills. The detached 7,700 sq ft office building is let on a 10-year lease, which started on...
These days, you’ll have noticed, nearly every business uses social media. It just makes sense: various free platforms for spreading the word about what a business does and knows, and a great way to build profile, find new employees and start virtual relationships which can then develop in the...
Businesses operating overseas, and particularly new entrants to international markets, need to protect themselves against bribery and corruption, a top West forensic accountant will warn at an exporting event next week. David Alexander, partner at Bristol-based business advisers Smith & Williamson, will say that even if a firm is...
Businesses have welcomed the approval of plans to build the long-delayed South Bristol Link Road, saying the move will deliver a major boost to the economy of the city’s ‘poor relation’. Councillors on North Somerset’s planning committee last night gave the scheme the green light. However, it still has...
Property agency Knight Frank has promoted Nick Snowden to partner in its recently-formed residential valuation, investment & development national division, which is based in its Bristol office. The move is in response to a period of sustained recovery in the residential development market and the re-emerging mixed-use development market....
West law firm Follett Stock, which until recently had an office in Bristol, has been closed down by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) following the appointment of liquidators earlier this week. The SRA said it made the move “in order to protect the interests of clients (or former or...
Plans to build a long-hoped-for cinema and restaurant complex in Yate have moved closer to becoming a reality this week with the town’s shopping centre owners lodging an application for the development to South Gloucestershire Council. The £12m scheme would create 150 jobs during construction and up to a...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com The Government has finally given the go-ahead for the rapid MetroBus scheme in South Bristol, linking Ashton Vale with the city centre and Temple Meads. Some 18 months after a public inquiry was held, and with no sign of the report from the independent inspector,...
Business West, the organisation that runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce, is backing the South Bristol Link Road scheme ahead of a council meeting today which could decide in its fate. The application for the project – which Business West believes is for economic growth and would help regenerate the...
Further evidence that West businesses are seeing signs of an upturn has emerged from a survey by R3, the insolvency trade body – although nearly half the firms taking part disagree with Chancellor George Osborne that the UK economy is in recovery mode. R3’s latest Business Distress Index (BDI)...
Defence giant BAE Systems has confirmed that jobs will be axed at its Bristol warship design base as part of the 1,775 shipyard job losses announced earlier today. The group employs about 200 engineers at its site in Filton. They are employed on design and other technical work linked...
Marketing agency McCann Bristol has been appointed by upmarket conservatory manufacturer David Salisbury as it prepares for a period of strong growth. McCann, part of the McCann Worldwide group, will provide the Highbridge-based firm with fully-integrated marketing support including a new brand strategy to attract affluent and discerning homeowners,...
