A former Army officer who worked on peace-keeping missions with NATO in Kosovo and Iraq has launched a business to help resolve conflict on an altogether different battlefield – the workplace. Felix Spender, who also helped gain the release of over 100 hostages captured by Somalian pirates, knows the...
Corporate teams from the Bristol offices of accountants Grant Thornton and law firm TLT have advised shareholders of specialist buying group Vetswest on its multi-million pound sale to major US-based veterinary supplies wholesaler. Devon-based Vetswest, which supplies ancillary services to vets’ practices across the UK as well as acting...
Malachy McReynolds, the former managing director of Bristol-based chocolate manufacturer Elizabeth Shaw, has stepped down as chief executive of not-for-profit organisation WE Care & Repair. He will be succeeded by Kevin Snowball, who joins from Bristol-based Simplyhealth’s Independent Living division, where he spent more than seven years as managing...
Bristol-headquartered law firm Burges Salmon has been accredited with the prestigious Investors in People (IiP) Gold Standard in recognition of its commitment to supporting and developing its employees. IiP is a management framework for high performance through people and its accreditation is recognised as a mark of excellence. IiP...
Bristol-headquartered law firm TLT has advised Smart Transactions Group, the UK leader in contactless payments and ticketing, on the multi-million pound sale of its West of England subsidiary to Japanese IT giant Fujitsu. The acquisition of ACT (Applied Card Technologies), based near Chippenham, paves the way for Fujitsu and...
Shares in SciSys, one of the region’s largest and longest-established specialist IT firms, rose today after it said it had resolved a potentially damaging funding crisis. In June the firm, which has a base in Brislington, warned it was at risk of breaching its banking covenants in August. Within...
Bristol businesses are helping the South West buck the national trend for exporting, with the value of overseas sales from the region rising while the national figure decreases. Data released today by HM Revenue and Customs shows that the value of UK exports decreased by 2.6% to £285bn in...
Passenger numbers at Bristol Airport soared to a new record of more than three quarters of a million last month as new scheduled services took off and the market for foreign holidays recovered strongly from the recession. Some 768,587 travellers passed through the terminal in August – up 6%...
Four new team members have joined Synergy Creative, the Bristol-based internal communications and creative design agency, following significant growth and a host of new client wins. Brooke Nolan has been appointed marketing manager, Neil Bartlett as senior designer, Neneh Pepperell as account manager and Gary Walder as account director....
Bristol Energy, the city council’s pioneering sustainable energy company, has appointed its first managing director as it prepares to launch. Peter Haigh, pictured,has been at the centre of many of the major developments in the UK energy industry. Most recently, he spent five years as CEO of Elexon, the...
Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, has welcomed an ambitious plan that will put thousands of young people across the country directly in touch with local businesses to improve the quality of careers advice they receive. Under the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) ‘Your Future’ initiative, businesses will...
Alder King, the South West focused property consultancy with its head office in Bristol, has made six promotions. Planner Matt Halstead and investment specialist Oli Stretton have been appointed partners while Rebecca Priestley, Lucy Round, Ben St Quintin and Andrew Cullen have become associates. Matt Halstead joined Alder King’s...
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