West accountancy firm Bishop Fleming has appointed David Gage as a VAT consultant. He will support the firm's director of VAT Wendy Andrews in serving clients across the firm's seven offices including Bristol. Mr Gage, who has an honours degree in Business Management and an MA in European Business,...
Bristol’s National Composites Centre (NCC) is to get a £28m investment as part of a major boost for science and technology spending announced today by Chancellor George Osborne in his Autumn Statement. The NCC opened in November 2011 on the Bristol & Bath Science Park to meet the needs...
The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement did not go quite far enough to unlock the resources needed to maintain and improve the West’s business infrastructure, according to Business West, the business support organisation that runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce and provides export and high-growth services. There was still much more that...
The CBI welcomed the Autumn Statement with director-general John Cridland saying: “The CBI has been crying out for real action on infrastructure, investment and exports. “£5bn on near-term infrastructure, like the tube to Battersea, half a billion a year tax relief for small firms, and £1.5bn extra export support...
Chancellor George Osborne told Parliament in his Autumn Statement this afternoon: “Britain is on the right track. Turning back now would be disaster. “It is a hard road, but we are getting there.” But he had to again cut his growth forecasts and said weak growth over the past...
No 3p fuel tax rise this January 1% cut in corporation tax to 21% Support for aerospace industry and supply chains 25% increase in funding for UKTI £600m for scientific research 10-fold increase in R&D tax credits Economy predicted to have contracted by 0.1% this year, down from 0.8%...
Chancellor George Osborne said the UK economy will continue to shrink this year – down 0.1% – compared to 0.8% predicted in his Budget earlier this year. But in his Autumn Statement, the Chancellor forecast growth for next few years – 1.2% in 2013, 2% in 2014, 2.3% 2015,...
Recently-elected Bristol Mayor George Ferguson has appointed Zoe Sear, formerly of Destination Bristol, to a newly-created job which gives her responsibility for mayoral initiatives and partnerships. Zoe, pictured, started in the role today. She will assist the mayor in his duties, with a particular emphasis on building partnerships to...
Business West, the Bristol-based business support organisation, has been recognised as one of the UK’s leading chambers of commerce for export advice services. It landed the British Chambers of Commerce Award for Excellence in International Trade Services for the support it gives to members and exporters through its comprehensive...
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West businesses that are helping arts groups survive and thrive in the current tough economic climate were today recognised in the region’s first Business Cultural Champions awards. Staged by Arts & Business (A&B), the organisation that brings together the cultural and corporate worlds, the awards were handed over at...
A former block of Edwardian public toilets in Bristol is to be reopened as a temporary art gallery and winter shop. Antlers Gallery, which has produced similar shows in London, Yorkshire and Gloucestershire, is working with Bristol City Council, which owns the disused cloakroom building on the corner of...
Bristol Zoo Gardens has won ‘best marketing project’ and ‘best education project’ in the annual British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) awards. The marketing project award was received for the incredibly successful Wow! Gorillas campaign, which the zoo ran in 2011 as part of the promotions...
