Bristol-based Imperial Tobacco, the South West’s largest business by turnover, overcame tough conditions in some of its markets to achieve a 3.7% increase in total annual revenues to £29.2bn with adjusted operating profit up from £2,53bn to £3.1bn, a rise of 1.2%. Profits before tax rose from £2.11bn to £2.15bn, some way short...
Bristol Zoo Gardens has appointed Owain Cassidy as its new head of marketing, public relations and development. Owain, who was previously the head of marketing and communications for a children’s charity in Wales called Ty Hafan, has worked in the marketing sector for nine years. He said: “Bristol Zoo...
DTZ’s Bristol project and building consultancy team is providing professional building surveying services for the £35m regeneration of Dolphin Square Shopping Centre in Weston-super-Mare. The 200,000 sq ft scheme is to be transformed into a complex including an eight-screen cinema, 112-bed Premier Inn hotel, an indoor bowling alley and eight...
A Bristol-based heritage property specialist is calling for action to ensure the future of redundant churches, schools and theatre buildings in the South West – or the region could lose some of its most interesting buildings. James Edwards, a town planner with Colliers International said: “There is a real risk...
Wessex Exploration, the Bristol-based hydrocarbon prospecting company, has signed an assurance agreement for a production-sharing contract that secures an area off the coast of the Western Sahara known as the Imlili Block. The deal, made with joint venture partners Tower Resources, is somewhat speculative since it has been made with...
SciSys, the Chippenham firm, which also has offices in Bristol, looks set to gain significant business from the £1bn British Army Warrior Armoured Fighting Vehicle upgrade programme announced last week by Prime Minister David Cameron during a visit to Lockheed Martin UK. As a member of the Warrior Transformation Team with...
Developer HDG Mansur has expressed "huge relief" over the successful renegotiation of its Section 106 agreement with Bristol City Council on the £255m regeneration of Finzels Reach, the high-profile former Courage Brewery site. The moves means the company, which is struggling to make the scheme viable, has been freed...
Oil industry veteran David Bramhill has summarised in typical style what he described as significant progress for Wessex Exploration, the Bristol-based hydrocarbon exploration company. He said in his chairman's annual statement for the year to June 30: "There is no in-between status in the speculative world of oil exploration...
From Bristol247 A major new marketing initiative that could bring hundreds of new jobs into former Government offices in Bristol city centre has been launched. Property experts are aiming to attract businesses to the Pithay building by promoting its proximity to Cabot Circus and Bristol’s most fashionable stores. Property specialists Colliers...
SciSys executive chairman and founder Mike Love is to step back from day-to-day control of the Chippenham-based hi-tech company to become non executive chairman. The firm, which also has operations in Brislington, Bristol, said in a statement today that he will, however, remain a director and significant shareholder in the...
A business transformation update was rushed out today by Alterian, the Bristol-based marketing software company which rejected on Monday an indicative £50m takover offer from SDL. It has established three product profit centred business units and said it had found additional cost savings of £10.6m. The company has also...
The huge potential energy resources which could be harnessed in the Bristol Channel have come under the spotlight at a tidal energy forum organised by Bristol City Council and Regen SW who have launched a partnership to ensure the city’s position as a leading centre for offshore renewable energy....
