Rachel Reeves’ first Budget is the largest tax-raising Budget since 1993, with around £40bn being raised for government programmes of ‘national renewal’. Following months of speculation, we finally know the details of what this Budget has in store. While it will take some time to fully examine and understand...
Tax rises in the Budget aimed at companies could slow much-needed economic growth and undermine investment decisions, the region’s largest business organisation fears. Business West, the organisation behind Bristol Chamber of Commerce, said it recognised that the Chancellor faced a tight fiscal position and so had to make hard decisions....
Chancellor Rachel Reeves started her Budget speech by saying the country voted for change on 4 July. As a result, the Labour government could now “fix the foundations”. The way to ensure growth was to “invest, invest, invest”, she added. In total, the Budget will raise taxes by £40bn. Business...
National accountancy and advisory firm BDO has opened applications for 29 new trainee positions in its Bristol office as it continues to invest in its early-in-career programmes. The 2025 trainee cohort will join the firm’s 8,000-strong workforce across its audit, tax, deals, and consulting, risk and outsourcing teams. Applications...
South West accountancy, tax and business advisory firm Milsted Langdon has promoted Martin Johnson to partner, recognising his dedication and extensive expertise having joined in 2007 as an apprentice. During his 17 years at the firm, which has an office in Bristol, Martin, pictured, has worked in a range of...
Business owners are on tenterhooks in advance of tomorrow’s Budget, the first by new Chancellor Rachel Reeves. Despite election campaign promises that tax rises would not affect ‘working people’, subsequent claims of the discovery of a £22bn black hole by the government suggest the nation’s finances are in a...
A regional construction company founded more than 130 years ago has produced its first framework outlining its commitments to supporting the communities where it works and the wider environment as well as its people and their skills. Beard said the Social Value Framework would reinforce the family-owned business’s long-standing...
A Bristol manufacturer producing specialist pumps for aquariums, zoos and entertainment parks has boosted its green credentials while also supporting its next phase of growth. Apex Pumps, which was founded in 1988 and has a 27-strong workforce, recently installed a 150-kW solar panel system on its Staple Hill factory...
Monday October 28 Economic announcements: M4 money supply, BRC shop price index Tuesday October 29 Finals: Softcat, Ultimate Products, Cap-xx, YouGov, Sareum Holdings Interim: C&C Group Economic announcements: Consumer credit, Mortgage approvals Wednesday October 30 Final: Grit Real Estate Income Group Q3 results: Standard Chartered, Smurfit Westrock Trading announcement: Next Thursday October 31 Final: Seeing Machines Interim: Vela...
Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Tech4Good South West co-founder Annie Legge answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST Film you watched? The Outrun. I loved the emphasis on healing through nature – cold water swimming...
Bristol subsea design firm DEEP, which is developing what it calls the next generation of ‘underwater human habitats’, has saved a pioneering ocean-going research vessel from being scrapped in a last-minute rescue mission. Bosses at the firm learned about the plight of the R/P FLIP (Floating Instrument Platform), pictured,...
Bristol award-winning animation studio Aardman is to co-develop a new stop-motion animated Pingu TV series after teaming up with toy giant Mattel. Created by Otmar Gutmann in the 1980s, Pingu, pictured, first aired on BBC One in 1990. The cheeky South Pole-dwelling penguin has been a mainstay of kids’ television since and...
Bristol-headquartered café group Boston Tea Party, which six years ago became the first in the UK to eliminate single-use cups, has launched a challenge to its larger rivals to follow its lead. Describing the bold campaign as a way of shaking up the industry, it said the big coffee chains...
