Bristol Airport is trialling self-service bag drop technology aimed at cutting passenger queues as it prepares for its busiest weekend of the year. The bag drop pilot is being piloted for passengers flying with easyJet – the airport’s largest operator serving 64 destinations. The scheme – already being used...
Paul Seymour has joined regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming as its new marketing director, based in its Bristol office. Paul arrives from the Bristol office of national law firm Bond Dickinson, where he worked for six-and-a-half years as senior communications manager and, more recently, marketing and communications manager. At...
Bristol-based ‘feel-good food’ café group Friska is aiming to double its number of outlets and expand in cities across the UK after receiving a £3m investment. The firm, which was founded in 2009 by former university friends Griff Holland and Ed Brown, pictured, now operates from nine locations across...
Property agency Colliers International has appointed Richard Nicholas to lead the investment property management team in its Bristol office. Richard, pictured, is an experienced property management specialist with more than 25 years’ experience. He joins Colliers as an associate director from the Cardiff office of rival JLL, where he...
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Entrepreneurs will pitch their business ideas to a royal audience when UWE Bristol hosts the Pitch@Palace On Tour. The Duke of York will hear pitches on the theme The Future of Mobility and Materials when he attends the prestigious event at Future Space on the university’s Frenchay Campus. Up...
Regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming, which has its largest office in Bristol, has welcomed the brakes being put on Making Tax Digital for business, after the government admitted it needed more time. Sole traders, partnerships and landlords with income above £85,000 were to be forced into keeping their accounts...
Carl Deane, head of accountancy group Smith & Williamson’s audit and assurance team in Bristol, has become managing partner of the Bristol office, replacing Mike Lea, who has been in the role for the past 10 years. Mike takes on the newly created ambassadorial role of office senior partner...
Work to transform Bristol’s former Blackberry Hill Hospital has come a step closer this week after plans were approved for a high-quality development with new and affordable homes on the site. Developer Galliford Try Partnerships and the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) propose to regenerate the vacant buildings at...
