Business in the Community (BITC) is calling on Bath firms to showcase how they are taking practical action to address pressing issues as the deadline for entries to the 2016 Responsible Business Awards looms. The awards, now in their 19th year, celebrate inspiring examples of businesses that make a...
The latest fall in unemployment – down a further 7,000 in the South West – has been welcomed by Business West, the organisation behind Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Bristol Initiative. But Business West, the region’s largest business group, has warned that low unemployment brings its own challenges...
Homeware retailer The Range is to create more than 1,000 jobs at a massive new warehouse on the outskirts of Bristol, it confirmed yesterday. The rapidly expanding firm has bought a 55-acre site at Severnside to build a 1.2m sq ft distribution centre – the size of around 15...
National accountancy firm Smith & Williamson’s Bristol-based corporate finance team got the new year off to a strong start by completing two multi-million pound deals. The team advised on the disposal of the wind and solar assets of AIM-listed Renewable Energy Generation (REG) and the sale of London-based specialist...
Monday 18 January Trading statement: Rio Tinto AGM: Punch Taverns EGM: eServGlobal Economics: Rightmove house prices Tuesday 19 January Interim: IG Group Final: Unilever Trading statements: British Land, Cairn Energy, Evraz EGM: Progressive Digital Media Economics: Consumer price index, Retail price index, Producer prices, ONS house prices Wednesday 20...
Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the area’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Brady George, managing director of facilities management business Almeda, answers our 10 questions What was the LAST: Film you watched? Mission Impossible Book you read? Iron...
Bristol’s office investment market has never been hotter as a tidal wave of money – much of it from international funds – arrives in the city, according to a new report. Middle Eastern money and US private equity is targeting Bristol city centre buildings as the London market overheats,...
Businesses have just 10 days to enter the first Go Green Awards, which will celebrate the sustainable achievements of Bristol businesses during the city’s year as European Green Capital. The deadline for the awards, which are being hosted next month in association with the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB),...
Bristol-based independent accountancy firm Corrigan Associates has appointed Richard Bunker as partner as it aims for ambitious growth this year. Richard, a qualified chartered accountant and tax practitioner, has joined from Whyatt Pakeman, the Bristol firm acquired by regional accountants Bishop Fleming just before Christmas. Prior to that he...
