A new web portal that brings together all the training providers in the South West for the first time has gone live. Skills Junction, developed by the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership’s (LEP) Skills team, was launched earlier this week at a conference in Bristol for educators, skills...
Bristol corporate expertise has helped the successful management buyout (MBO) of a Welsh specialist handling equipment firm. Accountants Grant Thornton’s Bristol-based corporate finance team and lawyers from Bristol law firm Osborne Clarke advised on sale of Mangar International, a world leader in inflatable lifting and handling equipment for the...
Fast-growing London-based cocktail bar group Be At One, which is backed by Piper Equity, is to open an outlet in Bristol – its 22nd venue and third outside the capital. The bar, in a unit on the Clifton Triangle formerly occupied by Hermanos, will open on February 26 and...
The long-awaited plan to build a 12,000 seat arena in Bristol has taken its most significant step towards reality with the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) agreeing to part fund the scheme. The LEP’s board agreed to invest money from a special economic development fund on the basis that the...
Just over half the owners of small and medium-sized businesses in the West are in favour of the Living Wage, according to a new survey. A quarter of these believe the policy will be implemented in their business in the near future, the latest Close Brothers Business Barometer reveals....
Bristol-based specialist creative agency Studio Diva, which has helped market video games such as Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, is about to do battle itself for a major industry accolade. The agency, which specialises in point of sale and marketing materials for the video games, entertainment, leisure...
The controversial privatisation of Royal Mail delivered a major boost to Bristol-based investment managers Hargreaves Lansdown with 27,000 new investors joining to buy shares in the sell-off, it revealed today. In a trading statement to the London Stock Exchange Hargreaves Lansdown said a total of 77,000 new clients signed...
Property agents Savills’ Bristol office has been appointed by developer Cubex to market apartments at the city’s Finzels Reach mixed-use scheme. Some 72 one and two-bedroom apartments will go on sale on February 15 in a move Savills says shows that confidence is returning to the city centre property...
Members of Bristol Junior Chamber will hear a rare first-hand account of the daring World War Two Dambusters bombing raid this evening from the legendary mission’s last surviving crew member. George ‘Johnny’ Johnson, who lives in Bristol, received the Distinguished Flying Medal (DFM) for his role in Operation Chastise...
Nearly two thirds of West firms plan to increase wages this year as the region’s economy bounces back from recession, new research shows. This is despite half of the businesses taking part in the Barclays Employers Survey 2014 saying wage pressure from employees was not an issue. However, some...
Electric vehicle charging points are to be installed at Bristol Temple Meads and Bristol Parkway railway stations as part of a campaign to promote low-carbon motoring. Train operator First Great Western (FGW) has been awarded £315,000 to install the chargepoints at 44 of its 210 stations. Clifton Down, Yate...
Bristol’s burgeoning reputation as a media hub has been strengthened with the arrival of London TV post-production company Evolutions, which has worked on shows such as The Apprentice and The Only Way Is Essex. The move, revealed by Bristol Business News last summer, has resulted in Evolutions taking 7,000...
Monday 3 February Final: Rangold Resources, SThree Trading statements: Creston, Future, Mitie AGM: Future EGM: Darty Economics: Hometrack housing survey, Purchasing managers' index – manufacturing, Halifax house prices Tuesday 4 February Interims: Alumasc, Kofax Finals: ARM Holdings, BG, BP, Low & Bonar, Ocado, St Modwen Properties Trading statements: Electrocomponents,...
