Hundreds of Airbus workers based at its Filton plant today watched via video link as the company’s latest aircraft, the A350 XWB, took to the skies for its maiden flight. The 300-seat long range plane, which cost about £8.9bn to develop, spent four hours above Toulouse, where it was...
Evolutions, one of London’s largest post-production groups, is to open a TV editing base in Bristol – the latest in a string of media firms to move to the city. The state-of-the-art digital operation on Whiteladies Road, in the heart of the city’s media district and close to the...
Businesses are being invited to support a festival that will bring an impressive array of international writing talent to Bristol and Bath later this month. A dozen of the best writers and performance poets from across the African Diaspora will take part in the Yardstick Festival from June 27 to...
Bristol’s sustainable businesses will be celebrated in the city’s first awards showcase dedicated solely to innovation. Bristol Business News’ Bristol Innovation Awards include an Innovation in Sustainability category alongside sectors ranging from creativity to bioscience. The awards are staged with Bristol Business News’ recently-launched magazine WestBusinessNews, which will give...
Following the success of the inaugural South West PA of the Year Awards last year, Bristol Business News and its sister titles including the recently-launched WestBusinessNews magazine, have again teamed up with prestigious Ston Easton Park Hotel, near Bath, to stage the South West PA of the Year Awards...
Bristol should be Europe’s capital city for circuses, Mayor George Ferguson has said as he officially opened Creative Common – the unique collaboration that has put culture at the heart of the city’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone. The empty site near Temple Meads railway station has been transformed with...
The regional head of EEF The Manufacturers Organisation has welcomed Government plans to create a new Cabinet Office committee aimed at driving regional growth. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will chair the committee, which brings together a number of ministerial groups responsible for city deals and other regional economic...
The Government’s controversial Help-to-Buy scheme, which aims to stimulate the housing market, is already boosting sales in Bath and across the West, according to housebuilder Redrow. It said take-up of the scheme, which helps buyers with low deposits obtain mortgages by underwriting the loan, has been stronger in the...
Vistair, the fast-growing Bristol-based airline safety software specialist, has landed a major deal with AirAsia, one of the world’s leading low-cost carriers. The agreement is the latest in a series of key contract wins by Vistair which has made its safety management system SafetyNet the global market-leader. Multi-award-winning AirAsia,...
USAF, the specialist student accommodation fund in which Bristol-based Unite is the largest investor, has secured a £405m refinancing package which is likely to benefit Unite’s finances and its ability to borrow at lower rates. USAF is the largest fund of its type in the UK with a portfolio...
More business and environmental groups have backed the decision by a powerful committee of MPs to condemn highly-controversial plans to build a massive barrage across the River Severn near Bristol The House of Commons’ Energy and Climate Change Committee (ECCC) yesterday said the 11-mile, £25bn project would not be...
High-growth and emerging markets may remain top of the exporting agenda, but UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) is urging West businesses not to forget the commercial benefits of markets closer to home. As a result, the lucrative benefits of doing business in Germany are to be explained at a...
Plans to build a highly-controversial barrage across the Severn Estuary were struck a major blow today with a report from MPs concluding it should not go ahead in its current form. The House of Commons’ Energy and Climate Change Committee (ECCC) said the 11-mile, £25bn project would not be...
