West firms are being urged to renew efforts to do business overseas and take advantage of high-level export support available following disappointing trade figures. Business West director Clive Wray, who has responsibility for running the contract for the Government’s trade-boosting body UKTI in the South West, said although the...
Fifteen graduates from the UK offices of property agents DTZ have passed their APC (Assessment of Professional Competence) exams after completing the company’s training scheme. The successful graduates, who are now qualified chartered surveyors and members of the RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors), include Tom Alcock, pictured, a...
The number of people visiting Yate Shopping Centre during the crucial weeks before Christmas was up on the same period in 2012, the centre’s owners have said. Footfall increased by nearly 6% in November on a year-on-year basis, and by more than 5% in December – figures described as...
Outset Bristol, the free business start-up service, has reached the landmark of helping launch 250 businesses and create 270 jobs in the city. Launched in October 2010, Outset Bristol offers free business skills workshops and support to people across the city wishing to move into self-employment or start their...
The corporate team at Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has advised the incoming chief executive and management team at heating and cooling equipment business Watkins Hire on a £10.1m private equity investment which backed their acquisition of the firm. Paul O’Kelly joined Watkins as chief executive as part of...
Darren Tozer from property agents Colliers International’s Bristol office has been appointed to head the firm’s facilities management team across the UK. Based in Bristol for the past seven years, Darren, pictured, will now be tasked with building on the market-leading facilities management service that Colliers International provides, with particular...
Health and social care consultancy Finnamore, which has an office near Bristol, has been acquired by GE Healthcare, part of the global GE group. Under the deal, financial details of which have not been released, GE Healthcare’s UK consultancy arm, formerly Performance Solutions UK, becomes GE Healthcare Finnamore. Joint...
Confidence among West firms is far higher than for those in most other parts of the UK and is almost back to pre-recession levels, according to a new report. The latest ICAEW/Grant Thornton UK Business Confidence Monitor shows that businesses in the region are starting to feel the benefits...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has received the coveted Investors in People Bronze standard in recognition of its continuous improvement across four business areas. The standard, awarded to just 5% of Investors in People-accredited organisations in the UK, acknowledges the firm's commitment and focussed strategy for growth based on...
Bristol Airport operator Air Malta has brought forward the launch of its summer 2014 charter season by four weeks to satisfy demand from holidaymakers wanting to visit the Mediterranean island over the spring/Easter period. The direct flights from Bristol will now start on April 8 and will continue weekly...
Real estate experts from Bristol-based law firm Burges Salmon have acted for The Crown Estate on its £31m sale to the BlackRock UK Property Fund and Canmoor of Honda’s biggest storage depot in Cabot Park, Avonmouth. Led by senior associate Matthew Sims, , the real estate team previously acted...
Further evidence that the West of England’s economy is growing at a solid pace emerged this week from the latest British Chambers of Commerce quarterly survey. Confidence among West firms is running high as sales, orders and recruitment increase, according to the survey findings, which were described as a...
National property agents Knight Frank’s industrial team in Bristol has been boosted with the arrival of Josh Gunn as a graduate surveyor. Josh, pictured, joins from Plymouth property consultant Vickery Holman where he spent two years in the agency department after graduating from Oxford Brookes University in Real Estate...
