A city centre hotel is celebrating after maintaining its position as Bristol’s best four-star venue according to the AA. The DoubleTree by Hilton, Bristol City Centre hotel, pictured, gained an overall score of 79% in what is widely regarded as one the country’s leading hotel rating systems. That means the...
Bond Dickinson, the national law firm with a large office in Bristol, has been ranked among the UK’s top five legal firms for innovation. The firms appears in the latest Best Legal Adviser Report for 2016-2017 published by online magazine Legal Week. The report scores law firms across 15...
Ultimate Finance Group, the Bristol-based independent provider of finance to UK business, has further strengthened its leadership team with four senior appointments. They arrive in their new posts following a record year of growth in 2016 for the Almondsbury-based business. The four include Jenna Forbes, who leaves GE Capital...
Ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration as US President this evening, Matt Griffith, policy director at the region’s largest business organisation Business West, looks back at his visit to the US to boost trade links with Bristol. Just before last November’s US presidential election, I joined a delegation of UK...
Confidence levels among property and construction professionals in Bristol and across the South West are the second highest in the UK, according to a new report from accountancy, investment management and tax group Smith & Williamson. Only professionals in London and the South East are more optimistic about their...
Bristol entrepreneurs are being invited to attend the second meeting of The Royall Wealth Club, the innovative West-based community of forward-thinking individuals, on Monday. The club, which covers Bristol and Bath, was launched last October to bring together successful people from all walks of life to meet, share and develop...
Time is running out for Bristol firms to enter the prestigious South West Fairtrade Business Awards. Applications for the hotly contested awards, which are free to enter, close on January 31. Now in their fifth year, the awards champion organisations across the region that put ethical responsibilities at the...
Specialist lender Aldermore has made two senior appointments to its growing South West and South Wales team based in Bristol. Jamie Cullen, who takes up the post of field-based residential relationship manager, has 12 years’ experience in financial services with NatWest and TSB, where he worked as a bank...
Michelmores, the regional law firm with an office in Bristol, has appointed barrister, Queen’s Counsel and part-time judge Andrew Oldland as its new senior partner – the first barrister to hold this role within a Top 100 law firm. He succeeds Will Michelmore, who has been the firm’s senior...
