Carl Deane, head of accountancy group Smith & Williamson’s audit and assurance team in Bristol, has become managing partner of the Bristol office, replacing Mike Lea, who has been in the role for the past 10 years. Mike takes on the newly created ambassadorial role of office senior partner...
A team from the Bristol office of regional law firm Thrings have advised fibre-optic infrastructure firm TrueSpeed Communications on its £75m investment from insurance giant Aviva’s global asset management arm, which will speed up the roll-out of its network to a further 75,000 homes and businesses in the region. Thrings...
International Trade Secretary Liam Fox today told Bristol area businesses that there has never been a better time to start exporting, with the help of his department. Latest government figures show an 11% surge in the value of overseas sales made by businesses from the region, with more than...
Lawyers at international legal firm Osborne Clarke’s Bristol office have advised lastminute.com co-founder Brent Hoberman’s new venture capital firm on the £50m fundraising of its first start-up seed fund. Brent Capital’s Firstminute fund will back early-stage European tech entrepreneurs, particularly in the ‘deep tech’ fields of robotics, artificial intelligence...
UWE Bristol is to award honorary degrees to a number of prominent Bristol business people, including former Airbus chief Iain Gray and Lord Lieutenant Peaches Golding OBE. Also receiving honorary degrees are former British Retail Consortium director general and Business West chair Stephen Robertson and entrepreneur and leading private...
Bristol-based Paradigm Norton has been named Advisor Firm of the Year at the Money Marketing awards, which celebrate the best in financial advice from across the country. The financial planning firm, which has is head office at Ham Green, was chosen as firm of the year thanks to a...
Bristol-based brick and timber distributor Taylor Maxwell Group has undergone a corporate restructuring with help from experts in the Bristol law firm Burges Salmon and the city office of accountants Grant Thornton. Taylor Maxwell Group is one of the UK’s leading brick and timber distributors with 18 branches nationwide...
Bristol-based specialist insurance broker Brightside, which sponsors Gloucestershire County Cricket Club’s ground, has renewed its support of the club’s T20 campaign with the T20 shirt lead sponsorship for the second year running. Gloucestershire had a strong campaign in the NatWest T20 Blast last year, finishing top of the south...
The South West’s construction industry is missing out by not claiming one of the best forms of tax relief available to it, according to research by accountancy group Smith & Williamson. Recent analysis of government statistics by the firm, which has a large office in central Bristol, showed that...
Three firms from the Bristol area have been named among the finalists for the coveted PwC West of England Business of the Year Awards – the region’s most prestigious business accolades. Recruitment specialist Resource Solutions Group (RSG), advanced engineering group Viper Innovations, and Bodywise (UK), which trades under the...
By Donna Kehoe, Bank of England agent for the South West of England Twice a year the Bank of England publishes a major review of what we call the ‘financial stability’ of the nation. Our aim is to ensure that the financial system is as robust as it can...
Business advisory firm Deloitte has made six senior appointments to its South West leadership team, including three new partners and three directors. The newly promoted partners are David Clements in risk advisory, Duncan Milne in consulting and Adam Powell in tax, while the three new directors are Nick...
Bristol-based research and development tax credit consultancy ForrestBrown has recruited its 50thstaff member less than four years after it was set up. The firm has experienced rapid growth with turnover doubling each year and is now the largest team of chartered tax advisers specialising solely in research and development (R&D)...
