Train manufacturer Hitachi Rail Europe is creating 150 jobs at its recently built Bristol depot to maintain the new fleet of trains being introduced on the Great Western mainline to London, it announced today. The £80m depot near Bristol Parkway station prepare the new intercity express trains for service...
Lawyers from the Bristol office of international legal practice Osborne Clarke have advised on the acquisition of the largest solar park in the UK. The 220-acre Shotwick site on the Wirral/Flintshire border operates at a 72MW peak capacity and a 50MW AC export capacity. Leading independent infrastructure and private...
Six senior appointments have been announced ahead of the launch next month of Bristol Airport’s first airport, the Hampton by Hilton. The new management team, led by general manager Andrew Peacock, has more than 42 years’ combined experience in the hospitality industry. They bring together the mix of skills...
Some of Bristol’s top businesses are backing the Lord Mayor’s Children’s Appeal Gift Gala to raise money for the city’s most disadvantaged children. The Gift Gala is one of several events in aid of the Appeal that runs through the year to raise money for clothes, gifts and food vouchers...
More than 550 aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners have been helped over the past year by BRAVE Enterprise, the Bristol-based not-for-profit business support organisation. BRAVE stages training workshops and advice sessions with experienced business mentors to encourage those thinking of starting up in business by themselves or growing a...
Property consultancy JLL’s Bristol team has raised more than £12,000 for homelessness organisation Julian Trust – its charity of the year for 2016. The JLL team raised £12,355 over the course of the year by hosting a range of fundraising events including the Contractors’ Quest in September – a...
Bristol is growing much faster than predicted. But to make this growth manageable, and for everyone in the city to benefit, we must properly plan and control our own future. 2017 gives us an opportunity to do just that, argues James Durie, chief executive of Bristol Chamber of Commerce...
Monday 6 February Final: Randgold Resources Trading statement: easyJet Economics: New car registrations Tuesday 7 February Interim: Mattioli Woods Finals: BP, Plus500, St Modwen Properties Trading statements: Bellway, FirstGroup, Michael Kors, Quotient, UDG Healthcare AGMs: Conygar, Dewhurst, Numis, UDG Healthcare Economics: BRC like-for-like sales, Halifax house prices Wednesday 8...
Accountancy group KPMG has appointed Maria Samra as a managing director to head up its consultancy practice across the South. Maria, pictured, will manage a growing team of management and risk consultants with expertise in technology-enabled business transformation, financial services, forensics and cybersecurity, programme management and assurance. She has held...
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 Suzy Barnes, director of creative agency Studio Diva, answers our 10 questions: What was the LAST: Film you watched? Rogue One. Although I loved the Star Wars...
The West of England’s world-leading aerospace and tech sectors have helped strengthen business ties between the area and the Spanish city of Malaga. A delegation from the aerospace systems cluster of the Technology Park of Andalucía has been on a two-day visit to the area this week to explore...
None of us exists in a vacuum. Throughout our daily lives we interact with other people – with varying levels of intensity. But always, we are working and living alongside people who influence us in a million different ways. Making the most of these interactions is how we can...
Professional services firm PwC has launched its annual West of England Business of the Year Awards – widely regarded as the region’s most prestigious. Now in their 29th year, the eagerly-contested awards attract the cream of the region’s firms with a winners’ roll-call reading like a who’s who of...
