Bristol Airport today announced that Southampton Airport managing director Dave Lees has been appointed as its new chief executive officer. Mr Lees, pictured, will take up his new role on August 1. He has also served as operations director and planning & development director at Southampton Airport, which has...
The BBC has renewed its contract with SCISYS, the specialised software and IT services firm with an office in Bristol, for its world-leading radio technology. The deal extends the BBC’s use of SCISYS Media & Broadcast division’s dira! media asset management platform, pictured, for up to 10 years. The...
Small and medium-sized businesses in the Bristol area can benefit from research and development grants of up £75,000 under UWE Bristol’s relaunched Innovation 4 Growth (I4G) grant funding programme. The popular initiative, which recently opened for the fifth time, pledges a total of £650,000 in funding. SMEs in any...
Cats Protection, the UK’s largest feline welfare charity, is on the prowl across the South West for a suitable location for a major ‘department store’ and donation centre to serve the region. The charity has 120 charity shops nationwide – 19 of them in the South West – with...
Bristol’s small to medium-sized manufacturers are being urged to have their say in a major research project into productivity in the sector across the UK. Recent economic data has suggested UK industry is starting to solve the so-called ‘productivity puzzle’ with efficiency levels in the sector showing signs of...
The West of England’s largest business organisation this week warned the government that its approach to Brexit was “positively damaging” firms in the region. Business West, which runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Bristol Initiative, backed an open letter to Prime Minister Theresa May by the British Chambers...
Bristol firms are being urged to help mentor the city’s aspiring entrepreneurs and, in turn, learn from them in the process. BRAVE Enterprise, the not-for-profit business support organisation, is calling on people with experience of running a business or in business banking to share their experience with people who...
Monday February 5 Final: Rangold Resources Trading update: Electrocomponents Economic announcement: Service sector PMI (January) Tuesday February 6 Finals: Ocado, BP, St Modwen, BNP Paribas, Munich Re Interims: Hargreaves Lansdown, Chipotle, Disney, General Motors Trading updates: Babcock Wednesday February 7 Final: Rio Tinto, Tullow Oil, Smurfit Kappa, GlaxoSmithKline Interims:...
Bristol’s new status as a UNESCO City of Film demonstrates its global reach as well as giving it the opportunity to create skilled jobs in its already thriving film and TV industry, the launch celebrations were told. The permanent status awarded to Bristol by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific...
