Vistair’s innovative e-document system snapped up by another airline

October 11, 2016
Vistair’s innovative e-document system snapped up by another airline

Air Arabia, the largest low-cost carrier in the Middle East and North Africa, has signed an agreement with Bristol-based airline safety software specialist Vistair to use its innovative e-document management product DocuNet. Air Arabia, which flies to more than 120 routes from five global hubs in the UAE, Morocco, Egypt and...

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Bevan Brittan mourns death of partner

October 11, 2016
Bevan Brittan mourns death of partner

The Bristol office of national law firm Bevan Brittan has announced the death of partner Tim Rowe. Tim Rowe, pictured, died following a short illness. He joined Bevan Brittan in February as an equity partner in the property team based in Bristol and was previously a partner at Bristol-headquartered...

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The LAST WORD: Tom Parnell, director, The HR World

October 10, 2016
The LAST WORD: Tom Parnell, director, The HR World

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 Tom Parnell, director of The HR World, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST:  Film you watched? Everest. I managed to catch this not expecting much...

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‘Huge inequality combined with complacency’ jeopardising Bristol’s economic future, experts warn

October 10, 2016
‘Huge inequality combined with complacency’ jeopardising Bristol’s economic future, experts warn

Bristol’s future economic growth faces huge challenges because it is being held back by complacency combined with massive inequality, low productivity and poor infrastructure. The stark warning emerged from Mayor Marvin Rees’ first State of the City lecture, when he vowed to stop Bristol being a “city fractured by...

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Much-loved authors find write way to support Bristol’s Children’s Hospital

October 10, 2016
Much-loved authors find write way to support Bristol’s Children’s Hospital

Bristol hospital charity Above & Beyond has launched a special children’s anthology featuring work by some of the best-loved writers of the past 100 years to raise much-needed funds for the city’s Royal Hospital for Children. Among the authors whose short stories, poems and illustrations appear in Don’t Be...

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Bristol firms line up against the big beasts of the wildlife film industry in the city’s ‘green Oscars’

October 10, 2016
Bristol firms line up against the big beasts of the wildlife film industry in the city’s ‘green Oscars’

Creative firms based in and around Bristol dominate the list of contenders for this year’s Panda Awards – the ‘green Oscars’ staged in the city as part of the annual Wildscreen festival. The awards, which take place at Colston Hall on Thursday, recognise excellence in wildlife film and TV...

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Bristol to host first Festival of Leadership to inspire collaboration and innovation

October 10, 2016
Bristol to host first Festival of Leadership to inspire collaboration and innovation

The UK’s first Festival of Leadership is to be staged in Bristol, with the city’s mayor Marvin Rees among its top-level speakers. The festival is the result of collaboration between UWE and the London-based Leadership Centre and will have the theme of ‘rethinking leadership for an uncertain world’. Its...

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SS Great Britain appoints construction firm to build its Brunel museum

October 10, 2016
SS Great Britain appoints construction firm to build its Brunel museum

Regional construction company Beard, which opened an office in Bristol last year, has been appointed by the ss Great Britain Trust to build its new national Brunel museum. Beard is working with Bristol-based Alec French Architects on the museum, part of the £7.2m Being Brunel project, which will explore...

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Burges Salmon advises fast-growing UK retail asset management group on IPO

October 10, 2016
Burges Salmon advises fast-growing UK retail asset management group on IPO

The corporate team from Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon has advised asset management company Premier Asset Management Group on its listing on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market. The Burges Salmon team, led by partner Chris Godfrey, pictured, and assisted by senior associate Emma Sorrell and associate Mark...

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