Monday 8 September Final: Dechra Pharmaceuticals Trading statement: Associated British Foods AGMs: Bacit, Creston EGM: B.S.D. Crown Tuesday 9 September Interims: HaloSource, Hilton Food Group, Safecharge International, Synety Group Finals: Abcam, Hargreaves Services, ISG Trading statements: Dixons Carphone, Fenner, Whitbread AGMs: Oxford Instruments, Pets At Home Economics: BRC sales,...
Bristol’s ‘phone box millionaire’ Dr Stephen Fear, the city-born entrepreneur and businessman, is to co-host a four-part radio series aimed at inspiring young people of all backgrounds to become entrepreneurs and create their own futures through enterprise. The first of four monthly shows, called Dr Fear’s Business Remedies, will...
Bristol firms are being challenged to get their staff to saddle up and take part in a four-day charity bike ride to Paris in aid of the city’s Above & Beyond charity. Participants in the Bristol to Paris Cycle Challenge will help raise £100,000 urgently needed to provide an...
The inaugural Bristol & South West Leisure Property Network will be launched on October 2 at Youngs’ Horts Pub and Kitchen. Coordinated by leisure property specialists Fleurets, the event aims to create an annual networking event for operators and leisure property professionals across the South West and South Wales....
Human resources professional Geraldine Buckland, who has 25 years’ business and HR experience spanning the private, public and not-for-profit sectors, has been appointed to lead the HR consulting team at accountants Smith & Williamson’s Bristol office. Geraldine, who takes over from partner Rachel Stone, has worked in senior roles...
The Virgin StartUp Live tour, which aims to help launch 1,000 new businesses across the UK, arrives in Bristol on Tuesday with one of the city’s most-successful entrepreneurs on hand to give advice. Tristan Hogg, co-founder of Pieminister, the pioneering Bristol-based firm that has brought real pies back to...
Bristol-based Integral Build has won a contract to work at the Young Offenders Institution in Feltham, Middlesex – the latest in series of logistically-challenging jobs won by the specialist construction and refurbishment firm. The contract, for Care UK, the leading independent provider of health and social care services, particularly...
Post production house Evolutions is to open a second facility in Bristol just a year after opening in the heart of the city’s Whiteladies Road media district. The new building, in which Evolutions has invested around £500,000 in state-of-the-art equipment, will provide additional capacity for the thriving post house...
A unique international careers website developed at the University of the West of England has been nominated for a Times Higher Education Award for Outstanding Employer Engagement. Launched two years ago, GradLink UK is a free web-based service that enables overseas employers to link with international students and graduates...
Fast-growing Bristol tech company Tuffscreen Screen Protection has moved to larger premises to allow for further expansion. The firm manufactures custom-made screen protectors to provide unrivalled scratch and impact protection to the mobile computers and barcode scanners, satnavs, and smartphones used by companies in the field. The unique technology...
By Adam Powell, director of skills, West of England LEP What will your business look like three years from now? Do your existing staff have the right mix of skills to help your business flourish? Do you have the right recruitment and workforce development strategy in place? If you...
West advanced engineering innovator Renishaw has appointed Rolls-Royce’s former group HR director Kath Durrant as a non-executive director with effect from January 1 next year. Ms Durrant, pictured, who has also worked for AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline, sits as an advisory board member for the Lancaster University Management School. She...
Using social media to promote charity fundraising and other issues faced by the region’s professional fundraisers and charity marketers will be examined at a major event next month. The second South West Charity Marketing Conference, organised by The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) South West region, will give the...
