South West firms looking to explore export opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean will be able to find out about support from the Department for International Trade (DIT) at an event next month. The DIT’s national LatAC Roadshow arrives in the region on March 12 when experts will...
The international team at Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has been expanded with the appointment of EU, regulatory and trade expert Ayla Skene as Of Counsel. Ayla, pictured, joins from the Glasgow office of national firm Pinsent Masons, where she spent four-and-a-half years as a solicitor and, more recently, an...
Bristol science and tech hub Future Space has appointed Laura Crocken Stevens as its new centre director. Laura, pictured, takes up the post after eight months as innovation director the innovation centre on UWE’s Frenchay Campus, which is home to 50 science and technology businesses. She replaces Marty Reid,...
Upcoming changes to the IR35 rules governing the payment of contractors will come under the microscope at an event hosted by financial and professional services firm Smith & Williamson’s Bristol office next week. Taking place at the firm’s Portwall Place office on Thursday, February 13, it will be hosted by associate director,...
Bristol law firm Gregg Latchams is to hold its first private children law conference later this month with practical tips from a range of expert speakers. The half-day event on February 28 is staged in collaboration with 3PB Barristers and will connect specialists and practitioners working in this area,...
Monday February 3 Final: Porvair Economic announcement: PMI manufacturing Tuesday February 4 Finals: Micro Focus, RM, St Modwen Properties Interims: Genedrive, K3 Capital Group, Mattiolo Q4 result: BP Trading announcement: Larsen and Toubro Economic announcement: PMI construction Wednesday February 5 Final: Smurfit Kappa Interims: Barratt Developments, Frontier Developments Q4...
Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Liam Ronan-Chlond, stakeholder engagement lead at property developer First Base, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Once Upon a time in...
Bristol will next week host the UK’s first major post-Brexit trade tourism conference, with more than 300 key industry players spending two days in the city for the event. The conference, organiser UKinbound’s largest-ever annual convention, will bring together delegates from the travel and tourism trade to hear the...
Bristol green energy group OVO has been told to pay £8.9m by the industry regulator for overcharging thousands of customers. Ofgem investigated the firm, the UK’s largest independent energy supplier with 1.5m customers and about 2,000 staff – around half of them in Bristol – after a series of...
