Business recovery specialist firm Begbies Traynor has scooped the title of South West Regional Insolvency Practitioner Firm of the Year in the national Insolvency and Rescue Awards. The accolade was presented to partner and head of the South West Regional team, Julie Palmer, at a packed ceremony at the...
Monday 14 October Finals: Nanoco, Tristel Trading statements: Essentra, McBride AGMs: Greenko, McBride EGM: Phytopharm Tuesday 15 October Interim: Lombard Risk Management Finals: Bellway, dotDigital, Utilitywise Trading statements: Burberry, Carpetright, e2v Technologies, Hargreaves Lansdown, Michael Page International, Rio Tinto EGM: LXB Retail Properties Economics: Producer prices, ONS house prices,...
Osborne Clarke and Gregg Latchams scooped the law firms of the year titles at this year’s Bristol Law Society annual awards dinner staged last night. Osborne Clark – one Bristol’s ‘big two’ firms – won the award for Law Firm of the Year with more than 15 partners sponsored...
Bristol’s latest networking club launched this week with the hot topic of nuclear energy and the economic boost the yet-to-be-built Hinkley Point C reactor is already bringing to the area. The Bristol Curry Club, which is aimed primarily at those working in property, finance and construction, attracted more than...
A four-point plan to boost Bristol’s economic growth will be unveiled next week at the high-powered Bristol’s Bright Future conference. Global property consultants Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), which has an office in the city, has identified four key areas that it believes will consolidate and build on the Bristol’s...
The Bristol office of the accountancy and investment management group Smith & Williamson has appointed Faye Hall as an associate director. Faye, pictured, who has more than 18 years’ experience in forensic accounting, joins from accountants BDO, where she was a senior manager and had worked since 2002. She...
This summer’s Gromit public art trail and exhibition – when 80 statues of the canine superstar were placed around Bristol – contributed £120m to the city’s economy, according to organisers. An estimated 1.18m people came to the city during the hugely-successful Gromit Unleashed project this summer – delivering a...
Mayor of Bristol George Ferguson has hailed a pioneering green energy scheme as an example of how the city will be a “laboratory for change” when it becomes European Green Capital in 2015. The £2.8m SoLa Bristol project went live in Knowle West this week with homes, schools and...
Accountants Grant Thornton are hosting a China Masterclass in Bristol next week for companies keen to break into the world’s second-biggest market. The seminar, next Thursday October 17, will hear from a panel of experts on how to maximise the opportunities in China and how to avoid the common...
Nearly two-thirds of West firms are optimistic about their prospects as the region’s economy starts to improve, with most expecting turnover and profits to increase over the coming year. Some 65% of the 550-plus businesses from across the region that took part in the latest British Chambers of Commerce...
Professor Peter Higgs, the former Bristol schoolboy who became a world-renown scientist and after whom the elusive Higgs boson is named, has won the Nobel Prize for Physics. Prof Higgs shares what is recognised as the greatest prize in science with Belgian scientist Francois Englert for their part in...
West firms are showing some significant signs of recovery as the economic upturn gains traction, according to the upbeat results of a new survey. Domestic sales for the region’s manufacturing and services sectors have climbed strongly over the past three months while other measures including employment and business confidence,...
Accountants and financial advisory firm Grant Thornton, which has an office in Bristol, has recorded its fourth successive year of strong growth, with turnover up 13% to £471m. The predominantly organic growth, which came on the back of a double-digit performance in the previous year, was driven in large...
