Bristol-based accountants and business advisors BDO has announced that the manufacturers’ organisation, EEF, is to back South West Innovative Manufacturing (SWIM). EEF will bring its knowledge and expertise in manufacturing in a move that will see SWIM and EEF’s own South West Manufacturing Network (SWMN) merge into one larger network. EEF joins...
Renewable energy specialists Solarsense has received an International Green Hero award in recognition of its role as a global beacon of good environmental practice. The prestigious award was presented to the North Somerset firm for carrying out a wide range of initiatives at its headquarters to reduce its environmental...
A new chairman has been appointed to the delivery arm of the South West Investment Group (SWIG) – the regional body overseeing Government-funded loan finance to companies that have struggled to attract conventional bank funding. David Savill, a business services partner at South West accountants Bishop Fleming, takes over...
With more than three decades in the recruitment industry, Mike Beesley, CEO of national recruiter Resource Solutions Group (RSG), based in Clifton, says the insights from the recent Education and Skills survey are key in addressing problems with standards of future job candidates. According to the CBI's recently published...
Bristol’s Colston Girls' School has been named among the winners of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) South West Excellence in Architecture Awards 2012. The school has undergone a major refurbishment and construction programme since converting from a selective, independent school to became a State-funded academy in 2008....
Winners of this year’s Bristol 10K Business Challenge have been formally recognised at an award ceremony hosted by the Bristol office of law firm Clarke Willmott. HR firm Aon Hewitt won the Fastest Team prize with an average time of just 41.47 minutes. The Fastest Man award went to...
The Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) has appointed Phil Jones as head of supply chain development, in its bid to help manufacturers increase efficiency and growth throughout their supply chains. Based in the South West, Phil will be focused on looking for supply chain opportunities that will help both SMEs and large...
George Osborne had originally planned to withdraw child benefit from all higher rate tax-payers, but had a change of heart in his 2012 Budget announcement, following criticism that this would be unfair on single income families and those earning just over the higher tax rate threshold. From January 2013,...
A major music event spearheaded by Bristol teens has secured sponsorship from leading businesses. Jubilation Bristol 2012, a music project designed to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, as well as create a long-standing musical legacy within the city, has acquired sponsors for its first major event including DAS, Triodos,...
Staff from a range of departments at healthcare charity Nuffield Health in Bristol are taking part in the city’s 10k run later this month in aid of BUST, the breast cancer unit support trust. The 18-strong team hope to raise much-needed funds for the Bristol-based charity which was founded...
First it was Richard Branson, then Stelios revolutionised the way we fly. Now entrepreneur Clive Jackson’s affordable private jet innovation is taking off. Victor was set up by Clive when he was told his regular commercial airline route to Majorca was being scrapped. Through research, he discovered that on...
Leading local estate agency Connells has recorded significant improvements across the housing market in Bristol in the first quarter of 2012 compared to the same period last year. In the first three months of this year Connells’ six Bristol-based branches saw an almost 20 per cent increase in the...
Bristol-based FRANK Water has been awarded £15,000 through Santander’s Social Enterprise Development Awards to help the business grow and increase its work funding clean water projects in the developing world. The innovative social enterprise sells reusable drinking bottles at UK music festivals and events and provides a free refilling service...
