The Basecamp Project, a business start-up scheme run by students for students at the University of Bristol, last night won the Best Student Enterprise Experience Award at the SETsquared student enterprise awards. The project, supported by the university’s research, enterprise & development division, has provided support to almost 100...
Bristol’s prime commercial property sites will be in the spotlight next week when around 50 mostly London-based fund managers, developers and other investment professionals get a whistle-stop tour of the city. The event, organised by Bristol property consultants Hartnell Taylor Cook, will highlight the major transactions that have occurred...
Real signs of recovery are emerging among West businesses, with 35% of small and medium-sized firms having more customers in the first quarter and a similar percentage finding lapsed customers are returning, a new survey shows. The latest figures in the Business Factors Index, produced by independent invoice finance...
Mandy Rose, the producer of award-winning digital media initiatives including the BBC’s ground-breaking Video Nation project has been appointed as director of UWE Bristol’s Digital Cultures Research Centre (DCRC). The centre, in Bristol’s Watershed, brings together art and design, computer science, cultural and media studies to explore how people...
Yvette Morcombe, a conveyancing solicitor with more than 20 years’ experience, has become a partner at specialist property law firm Hoffman Male and will run its newly-opened Bristol office. Yvette, pictured, has worked in residential and commercial property since qualifying as a solicitor in 1993. She has worked with...
Bristol headquartered law firm Osborne Clarke has expanded its international organisation by opening a base in Brussels with a 10-strong team. Osborne Clarke’s international organisation now has 14 offices in six jurisdictions. The team in the Belgian capital will be joined by members of its EU regulatory team. Initially,...
Bristol’s elected deputy mayor and Tory councillor Geoff Gollop has merged his accountancy practice with expanding regional firm Milsted Langdon. Under the tie up, which completed last Friday, all staff and clients from Geoff Gollop & Co have transferred to Milsted Langdon’s Bristol office at One Redcliff Street, with...
West firms are being urged to consider export opportunities in high-growth Gulf markets at an event in Bristol tomorrow. UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), the UK Government department that helps companies succeed in the global economy, is staging a UK-wide roadshow this month to introduce small and medium-sized enterprises...
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Former rugby league forward Lee Crooks has become the latest high-profile sportsman to join expanding health and protection specialists APRIL UK as a specialist sports protection advisor. The former Great Britain international, pictured, played for many of the country’s top rugby league outfits and was also general manager at Featherstone...
Business Doctors, the UK’s fastest-growing support service for small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs), has opened an operation covering Bristol plus Bath and Somerset. The business, which provides support and strategic advice to SME owners and directors, will be run by West businessman Richard Tidswell, pictured, who in recent years...
The achievements of some of the UK’s most forward-thinking young innovators will be showcased in Bristol next Thursday when the SETsquared student enterprise awards take place. The awards, which will be presented by Charles Tyrwhitt Shirts founder Nick Wheeler, who came up with the idea for his clothing empire...
Home Grown Hotels, the group behind The Pig chain of upmarket hotels, has bought Hunstrete House in Somerset, for £5m from von Essen Hotels founder Andrew Davis. The 18th century Georgian hotel has been closed for two years following the administration of the Bath-based von Essen group, which owned...
