A 50% stake in Cabot Circus, Bristol city centre’s prime shopping development, has been bought by the property arm of French insurance giant AXA for nearly £268m. UK property giant Land Securities, which funded the development of Cabot Circus with Hammerson, released a statement saying it had exchanged contracts...
The West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has appointed Barbara Davies as its new chief executive. The LEP’s former head of place and infrastructure, Barbara Davies, pictured, has been acting as interim director since former chief executive Paul Wilson quit six weeks ago. Barbara has worked at the...
Bristol Airport has announced a £8.6m extension of its terminal – the first major expansion of the building since it opened in 14 years ago. The scheme forms the latest stage of a large-scale, phased development at the airport which will lift capacity from 6m to 10m passengers a...
Further evidence of an impending skills shortage among West firms that could threaten to derail the economic recovery has emerged from a report predicting the strongest jobs growth since 1998. The national survey by accountants BDO shows businesses’ hiring intentions rose sharply last month to surpass their pre-recession figure...
Monday 11 August Interims: Planet Payment, SVG Capital, Synthomer Trading statement: MITIE AGM: PME African Infrastructure EGMs: Infrastructure India, Max Property Economics: UK economic survey, Lloyds employment confidence Tuesday 12 August Interims: Ithaca Energy, Just Eat, Ladbrokes, Prudential, Serco, SIG, Zotefoams Trading Statement: Volution Group AGMs: GB Group, Global...
Bristol’s iconic balloon fiesta is underway with the city’s economy expecting to land a multi-million pound boost from more than 500,000 visitors descending on Ashton Court. Now in its 36th year, the event attracts more than 100 balloons from across the world, making it one of the UK’s top...
Ryan Kerslake struggled to find a job despite a degree from Plymouth University in metalwork and glass art. After several months of being unemployed, Ryan, now 23, decided to move to Portugal to try and find a job there, but he underestimated the language barrier and had to return...
Josh Small couldn’t wait to leave school. By the time he’d reached his final exams he’d got into the wrong crowd and was continuously getting into trouble with teachers. “I didn’t enjoy school and, as a result, I didn’t get the grades that I needed to progress onto college,”...
Bristol firms are facing a looming skills crisis – yet there are thousands of young people desperate to work, new research warned this week The study by the Prince’s Trust and HSBC reveals that 69% of businesses across the South West believe a significant skills crisis will hit their...
Bristol’s city centre office market is poised for some of its largest deals for more than six years with four major requirements totalling more than 200,000 sq ft on the cards. Ovo Energy, the rapidly-expanding Bristol-based energy supplier and emerging challenger to the big utility firms, is about to...
Bristol & Bath Science Park, with its state-of-the-art innovation centre, has again been used as the setting for a film promoting advanced technology. It stars in a promotional film for the new Samsung Galaxy S5, which tells the story of a designer who uses the smartphone across Bristol in...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com First it was the gorillas, then Gromits. Now plans to place dozens of Shaun the Sheep sculptures around Bristol in a new arts trail were confirmed today. More than 100 sculptures of Bristol animator Aardman’s woolly Claymation character, will appear in London and Bristol next...
Transport operator FirstGroup and accountants KPMG have signed multi-million pound agreements to support Bristol’s year as European Green Capital in what was today described as among the largest private-sector sponsorships in the city’s history. The deals, a mixture of financial and value-in-kind support, make up the strongest private-sector commitment...
