Malachy McReynolds, the chair of regional alternative finance lender SWIG Finance, is to step down in March after five years in the role. He will be replaced by Christine Allison, a former lead economist for the World Bank, who has been a non-executive director of SWIG Finance for the...
The latest lockdown will be another “body blow” to Bristol firms, coming after the uncertainty caused by Brexit and lost trade in the run-up to Christmas, the region’s biggest business group has warned. Business West, which runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce, said firms that had survived so far with...
The Bristol office of national accountancy group Smith & Williamson capped off a successful 2020 by completing two deals – a management buyout at a robotics firm and a sale of an e-learning business. The management buyout at Gloucester-based CKF Systems secures the future of the 30-year-old business, which...
Fresh calls for a rethink of government support for businesses hit by Covid-related restrictions have been made as more parts of the South West join Bristol in Tier 3. While Bristol’s status remained unchanged – having gone from Tier 2 to Tier 3 on Boxing Day – Bath and...
Bristol is to move back into Tier 3 on Boxing Day, the government announced today against a backdrop of increasing Covid-19 infection rates across the city. The number of people contracting the virus in the city has risen sharply since the last review of the local tier restriction system...
Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, is aiming to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2030 and has introduced three new steps to help it – and firms across the South West – reach the ambitious target. The organisation, which runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Bristol...
Entrepreneurs of the world, pay attention. This is aimed at you! There’s a good chance that if you are building and running your own business, you may not yet have got round to planning your retirement, let alone know what the pension options for you and any staff you...
Bristol business leaders have welcomed the city’s move into Tier 2 from tomorrow but the group representing its major hotels said it had come too late to enable them to cash in on Christmas and secure any meaningful income. Bristol Chamber and Initiative chief executive James Durie joined the Mayor of...
Global accountancy group EY has grown its staffing levels in the South West by 9% this year through strategic senior hires and investment in graduates and apprentices. Despite a challenging economic backdrop, EY continued to expand its headcount across the UK, hiring more than 3,000 people over the past...
More than two-thirds of high-growth firms in the South West plan to continue to expand next year after adapting for a post-Covid world, new research shows. According to the first survey to chart these businesses during the coronavirus pandemic it has created significant barriers to growth for 58% of...
Just 2% of the South West’s small to medium-sized manufacturers think Brexit will have a positive impact on their recovery, while more than half admit they still cannot predict how the transition out of the EU will affect their business. And with the UK-EU talks entering their final hours...
Bristol and London law firm Temple Bright has acted for Japanese multinational Nikon on the pensions aspects of its reorganisation in which Nikon UK merged with Nikon Holdings Europe. The cross-border merger, which took place on December 1, was implemented as part of a planned simplification of Nikon’s European legal entity structures. ...
A golf complex on the outskirts of Bristol run for the past 23 years by a professional golfer has been sold after being marketed for more than £3m. Bristol Golf Centre, pictured, at Hambrook has been bought by Chipping Sodbury-based Golf & Leisure Group for an undisclosed fee from...
