The LAST WORD: Oliver Mochizuki, co-founder and CEO, Fundsurfer.com

March 18, 2016
The LAST WORD: Oliver Mochizuki, co-founder and CEO, Fundsurfer.com

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 Oliver Mochizuki, co-founder and CEO of Fundsurfer.com, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? New World by Park Hoon-Jung, I am obsessed with...

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Bristol firms among the winners in prestigious awards scheme that shows trade can be fair

March 18, 2016
Bristol firms among the winners in prestigious awards scheme that shows trade can be fair

Bristol guest houses, cafes, printers and retailers were among the winners at this year’s South West Fairtrade Business Awards. Minuteman Press Bristol won the Best Fairtrade Office category, UWE’s Full of Beans cafe walked away with the title of Best Fairtrade Cafe or Restaurant and Sophie Luxton from Computershare...

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Welsh Government contract for Bristol’s pioneering ‘CycleEye’ cycling safety technology

March 18, 2016
Welsh Government contract for Bristol’s pioneering ‘CycleEye’ cycling safety technology

Innovative Bristol engineering firm Fusion Processing, whose state-of-the-art technology is used on city buses to cut cyclist casualties, has won a contract with the Welsh Government to help improve safety for motorcyclists. The firm will adapt its CycleEye technology for use in three locations to help detect motorcycles approaching...

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Growth on the cards for Bristol Labels after securing invoice finance deal

March 18, 2016
Growth on the cards for Bristol Labels after securing invoice finance deal

Label producer Bristol Labels is on track to achieve double-digit year-on-year growth after increasing productivity by installing more efficient machinery. Supported by a working capital facility from RBS Invoice Finance, the company is on track to secure a 15% increase in turnover for the year ending March 2016, up...

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Engine Shed offers platform for exhibition that sheds light on loneliness among older people

March 18, 2016
Engine Shed offers platform for exhibition that sheds light on loneliness among older people

Bristol’s Engine Shed innovation hub has teamed up with city charity LinkAge to stage an exhibition exploring the devastating impact that isolation and loneliness can have on the lives of older people. Called Step Into My Shoes, it takes as its backdrop the shocking statistic that almost 5m older...

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New director joins BDO’s Bristol office to lead transaction services team

March 18, 2016
New director joins BDO’s Bristol office to lead transaction services team

Accountancy firm BDO has appointed Daniel Bond as a new transaction services director in its Bristol-based corporate finance team to focus on advising businesses in the South West. Daniel, pictured, has relocated from BDO’s Southampton office, where he spent 10 years working on a variety of private equity, corporate,...

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Burges Salmon completes Cumbria wind energy project

March 18, 2016
Burges Salmon completes Cumbria wind energy project

Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon has advised a subsidiary of long-standing client, wind farm development company Infinergy, on the development and financing of a project in Cumbria. Mean Moor Wind Farm will include three wind turbines as part of a five-turbine Furness Wind Farm scheme. The Burges Salmon...

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Experienced associate partner bolsters Sanderson Weatherall’s Bristol valuation team

March 18, 2016
Experienced associate partner bolsters Sanderson Weatherall’s Bristol valuation team

The Bristol office of national chartered surveyor and property consultancy Sanderson Weatherall has been further strengthened with the appointment of Anthony Turner to the role of associate partner. Anthony, pictured, who previously worked for West and Wales chartered valuation surveyors Andrew Forbes, brings a wealth of additional expertise to...

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Refurbished office is just the job for expanding IT recruitment business

March 18, 2016
Refurbished office is just the job for expanding IT recruitment business

SThree, one of Europe’s largest IT recruitment companies, is to relocate its Bristol base to one of the city centre’s recently refurbished office building to accommodate further growth. The firm is taking 5,500 sq ft on the top floor of Legal and General Property’s (L&G) Redcliff Quay. It is...

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