BMI Regional’s recently-announced flights from Bristol Airport to Hamburg and Frankfurt have been welcomed by the city’s Chamber of Commerce. The airline, which launched flights to Aberdeen from Bristol last year, is to introduce the five-flights-per-week Hamburg service on February 11 it will increase to 12 a week from...
Aerospace giant Airbus is set to lose its decade-long global number one ranking for commercial aircraft deliveries to its arch-rival Boeing. The US group is expected to release official delivery figures later this month showing it supplied its airline customers with around 600 aircraft last year against Airbus’ forecast...
Pay rises – or the lack of them – and the need for employers to motivate and engage their staff will be among the major workplace challenges in 2013, according to Tony Cooper, South West director of Acas, Britain’s top employment relations service. Here Tony, pictured, looks at the...
Bristol-based digital marketing firm Smart Traffic has been named as one of the UK’s fastest-growing tech companies for the third time in two years. Revenues at the firm, the UK’s largest SEO (search engine optimisation) specialist, soared by 1,468% over the past five years, earning it 11th place in...
The Real Good Food Company, the diversified food group that owns Thornbury-based sugar and dairy ingredients firm Garrett Ingredients, has completed a new 5-year, £50m bank facility with its financiers PNC Financial Services UK. The new facility, a £10m increase on its existing facility, will run until December 2017...
Patricia Wass, a specialist wealth and succession lawyer at West law firm Foot Anstey, has become England & Wales regional committee chair of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP). Patricia, pictured, was selected after serving as regional deputy chair at STEP, the worldwide professional association for practitioners...
Housebuilding and construction group Galliford Try has been instructed by Gloucestershire County Cricket Club to carry out £5m of major improvements at the County Ground in Bristol. Work at the international cricket ground in Nevil Road will include a new media centre and conference and banqueting facilities. Some 147...
West law firm Thrings, which has an office in Bristol, has launched an integrated human resources service to help ease some of the biggest employment headaches faced by small firms. Thrings HR will support clients in areas such as disciplinary investigations, grievance hearings, individual redundancy consultations, performance management and...
Nash Partnership, the architectural practice with an office in Bristol, is to sponsor this year’s Independent Bath Literature Festival as part of its 25th anniversary celebrations. The practice, which expanded into Bristol recently, was started in Bath in 1988 by Edward Nash and has grown over a quarter of...
As Bristol returned to work this week, Chamber of Commerce and Initiative executive director James Durie believes the city’s business community should adopt a ‘John Cabot spirit’ in 2013. “The turn of each new year is traditionally the time for predictions and resolutions and no doubt many pundits will...
Former Bristol Chamber of Commerce president Bob Durie and Hewlett Packard Laboratories director Martin Sadler have been awarded the OBE in the New Year’s Honours List. Mr Durie, pictured, a former High Sheriff of Bristo land a stalwart of the city’s business and charitable communities, receives his honour for...
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Business West managing director Phil Smith reflects on 2012 and looks forward to 2013 as being a year of stability, followed by growth. “The end of one year and the beginning of another is always a time for both reflection and optimism; looking back over the year to assess...
