More than 800 jobs have been created in 222 businesses over the past year through the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership’s (LEP) Growth Fund. The £10m-plus handed out by the fund has enabled the wide range of businesses to gain training, attract investment and carry out research and...
Bristol-headquartered Osborne Clarke has been named law firm of the year at the prestigious Legal Business Awards. The firm was commended in particular for its recent growth trajectory and its focus on sectors and issues that are at the cutting edge of the law such as building smart cities...
The new director of operations at Bristol city centre’s DoubleTree by Hilton hotel is Greg Csikos, who joins from Bristol City Centre Marriott. Greg, pictured, is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the four-star, 200-bedroom hotel in Redcliffe Way. Originally from Budapest, Greg moved to the UK in 2006...
Bristol firms are being urged to act quickly to secure the last few exhibition stands at the ‘early bird’ rate for Business Showcase South West 2015, the region’s biggest business exhibition. The event, which is expected to attract 3,000 delegates, is being staged at Colston Hall on May 14...
The Bristol office of accountancy and investment management group Smith & Williamson has appointed Roger Perry to help its private clients explore their retirement options. Roger, pictured, has almost 30 years’ financial services experience, including an in-depth knowledge of pensions and inheritance tax planning. He joins Smith & Williamson’s...
The deadline is looming for Bristol firms to enter one of the region’s top award schemes showcasing excellence and enterprise in business. Entries for the prestigious Institute of Directors’ South West Director of the Year Awards 2015 must be in by March 31. Nominations are open to anyone working...
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,...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
