More than 150 business, community and civic leaders gathered to celebrate 30 years of the Bristol, Bath and West of England Initiative and hear how it has helped shape the region’s economic and cultural landscape over three decades. The Initiative, which sits at the heart of Business West, was...
HSBC UK has appointed Daniel Felton as head of corporate banking for the South West and Wales as part of a drive to support mid-market businesses. Daniel, pictured, will head a 110-strong team working with businesses turning over between £7.5m and £350m. Based in Bristol, he will have four...
Bristol’s insolvency professionals raised more than £4,000 for charity after getting their thinking caps on for a quiz night hosted by accountancy, tax and investment management group Smith & Williamson. The ‘Nearly Christmas Charity Quiz’ has been held by the firm’s restructuring and recovery services department in Bristol for...
More than 300 jobs have been axed a week before Christmas at Bristol-headquartered national truck hire firm Gulliver’s following the appointment of administrators. Gulliver’s Truck Hire, which was established in 1960, operated a UK-wide truck hire business with a fleet of around 4,500 vehicles available on short and long-term...
An online gift card developed by Bristol-based eCommerce firm Koan is helping more than 3,000 retailers build sales this Christmas. Koan, which is based at UWE’s Future Space tech and health innovation hub, developed Gift Up! last year to allow retailers to use on their own websites to quickly...
A Yorkshire-based entrepreneur has stepped in to save Bristol’s Bloodhound supersonic car project days after it was axed by administrators. Ian Warhurst, owner of Barnsley car parts firm Melett, has bought the assets and business of the Avonmouth-based project – which had hoped to set a world land vehicle...
MEET South West, the exhibition and conference showcase that will make its debut in January, has been boosted through a series of partnerships with key business organisations in the region. Among those endorsing the inaugural event are Bristol Airport, GWR, Bristol-based film production company Floating Harbour and Bristol Business...
Pioneering Bristol start-up KETS has raised investment of more than £2m to develop a range of future-proof digital security technologies capable of protecting huge amounts of essential data. The University of Bristol spin-out aims to become the digital security operating system, protecting digital information and critical infrastructure. While quantum...
Confidence among the South West’s small firms has fallen once again and is now significantly below the national average, according to a new survey. The latest quarterly report from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) reflects a level of SME pessimism among members across the region not seen since...
Bristol-based instant noodle brand Kabuto Noodles has secured a contract with a chain of French grocery stores which will put its products on the shelves of more than 120 supermarkets across France. Kabuto was launched in 2010 by Crispin Busk, who saw a gap in the market for ‘posh...
Bristol is set to be one of the UK’s fastest-growing cities over the next three years with higher-than-average job creation, new research has revealed. The city will enjoy annual Gross Value Added (GVA) growth of 2% between 2018-2021 – higher than the UK average of 1.7%, according to international...
The Bristol offices of law firms TLT and Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) have advised on a multi-million pound deal that will drive innovation and create jobs at a West of England car and motorbike wheel manufacturer. London-based Puma Investments is injecting £3.6m of private equity into Dymag, a pioneering...
Bristol-based invoice finance firm Optimum Finance has appointed Mike Stevens as regional sales director for London and the South East, signalling the start of the next phase of growth for the company. With a background in banking and finance at Barclays and RBS, Mike, pictured, joins Optimum Finance with...
