A landmark office building on a long-derelict piece of wasteland in Bristol’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone has secured outline planning. The Anvil will provide 83,223 sq ft of grade A office space over seven floors on the boarded-up site on Avon Street. Described by its developers as “the workplace...
The UK could ‘self-harm’ from a post-Brexit attitude to foreign workers being encouraged by Theresa May’s government, former Business Secretary Sir Vince Cable has told Bristol business leaders. Leaving the EU could also have a ‘sting in the tail’ for those who voted for it thinking it would lead...
Bristol wealth management business Whitechurch Securities has landed a top industry accolade for the third year in a row – adding it to a clutch of recent award wins. The firm took the Best Overall Small Firm title at the Citywire Wealth Manager Investment Performance Awards, which have an...
Three units have been snapped up at a North Bristol office park in quick succession – leaving just one vacant building. Oasis Healthcare, The Salvation Army Trustee Co and Rock Solid Knowledge have taken space at Vantage Office Park, Taunton-based Summerfield Developments’ scheme being marketed by Hartnell Taylor Cook...
Conflict management expert Felix Spender has visited India as part of the country’s ambitious plan to develop ‘smart cities’ and help lift millions of people out of poverty. The former army officer, who launched his business North Light Solutions in 2011, met politicians, university representatives and business owners at...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
