Ahead of the Agenda: The Week Ahead

March 23, 2015
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Monday 23 March Interims: Finsbury Food, Nanoco, ScS, Volution, YouGov Finals: CityFibre Infrastructure, GVC, Michelmersh Brick, Telit Communications Trading statement: Pennon Economics: CBI trends – selling prices Tuesday 24 March Interims: Game Digital, Wolseley Finals: 7digital, 888, AG Barr, Clarke (T), Faroe Petroleum, Gulf Marine, IQE, Quixant, S&U, Skyepharma,...

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The LAST WORD: Asif Khan, business development manager, Learning Partnership West

March 20, 2015
The LAST WORD: Asif Khan, business development manager, Learning Partnership West

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 Asif Khan, business development manager at Learning Partnership West, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Catch Me Daddy at the Watershed....

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The search for Bristol’s happiest workplace narrows to five contenders

March 20, 2015
The search for Bristol’s happiest workplace narrows to five contenders

Five firms are battling it out to earn the coveted title of Bristol’s happiest workplace. Animation studio Aardman, publisher Immediate Media, distribution firm Shiner, recruitment group Opus and digital media pioneers Sift Media are today named as the shortlist in the first contest of its kind in Bristol. Launched...

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Solar proves powerful source of work for Burges Salmon as installations soar to new levels

March 20, 2015
Solar proves powerful source of work for Burges Salmon as installations soar to new levels

Bristol-headquartered law firm Burges Salmon has reached the landmark of advising on more than two gigawatts (two billion watts) of solar PV installations in the UK since the introduction of the first feed-in tariff in April 2010. The firm has been involved in projects from the first wave of...

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Government funding for community energy schemes secured by city council

March 20, 2015
Government funding for community energy schemes secured by city council

Bristol City Council has been granted £885,000 funding from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to support community energy projects across the city. The funding is the result of a successful bid from the council and will be partly used to boost renewable energy programmes already being...

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Bristol broadcaster’s journey to the US to find his identity as a Black Briton leads to his first book

March 20, 2015
Bristol broadcaster’s journey to the US to find his identity as a Black Briton leads to his first book

Bristol-based social entrepreneur, broadcaster and writer Roger Griffith has launched his first book My American Odyssey – From the Windrush to the White House. Part memoir, part cultural history and part political essay, the book charts the life of a London-born, Bristol-raised boy of West Indian parents encountering overt...

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Thatchers hosts UKTI boss to showcase how it takes cider from the West to the world

March 20, 2015
Thatchers hosts UKTI boss to showcase how it takes cider from the West to the world

The chief executive of UK Trade and Investment (UKTI), the Government’s international trade support body, has visited Thatchers HQ to get a taste of the cider makers’ impressive growth over recent years – much of it due to exporting. In his first visit to the West Country, Dominic Jermey...

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Limited edition Rare Hare leaps in to strengthen brewery’s range

March 20, 2015
Limited edition Rare Hare leaps in to strengthen brewery’s range

Warmley-based brewer Bath Ales has re-introduced its strongest beer, the limited edition Rare Hare, to its range ahead of the Easter Bank Holiday. Available in-store and on tap, Rare Hare is described by the independent brewery as “a smooth premium beer that is full in flavour, dry and clean...

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Bristol property market recovery builds attendances at Thrings’ sector seminars

March 20, 2015
Bristol property market recovery builds attendances at Thrings’ sector seminars

More than 170 figures from the region’s increasingly buoyant property sector gathered at the offices of leading commercial law firm Thrings this week for its annual series of commercial property seminars. Building surveyors, property agents, planning consultants and accountants from across the region joined event host Matthew Smith, partners...

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