Gem bitter – the first beer produced by Warmley-based Bath Ales when it launched 20 years ago – has lost none of its thirst for awards, earning a silver medal at the International Beer Challenge. The trophy is the second in consecutive years scooped by Gem – last year...
Rudrum, the long-standing Bristol-based fuel group, has sold its retail solid fuel distribution division in a move that will allow it to concentrate on its industrial coal, biomass and property businesses. The Shirehampton-based group, at one time Bristol’s best-known coal merchant and the core of an international fuel importer,...
Global property agency DTZ has promoted Sarah James-Nock, a member of its Bristol-based retail asset management team, to senior surveyor. Sarah, pictured, joined DTZ a year ago and now manages shopping centres in Torquay and Port Talbot and leisure parks in Southampton, Leicester and Huddersfield. In total, DTZ’s Bristol...
Low-cost airline Wizz Air is to launch flights to a third destination from Bristol Airport, adding Slovakian city Kosice to Katowice in Poland and Bulgarian capital Sofia to its route network. Flights to Kosice, which in 2013 jointly held the title of European Capital of Culture, start in October...
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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 Catrin MacDonnell, founder of caterer, deli and cafe Papadeli and leadership and business coach, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Inside out,...
Destination Bristol chief executive and keen cyclist John Hirst has signed up to take part in city centre hospital charity Above & Beyond’s Bristol to Paris Cycle Challenge next year – and is urging more business people to join him. John, pictured, got into training for the 430km, four-day...
HH Asset Finance has appointed Ian Thomas to the position of account manager in Bristol – its first employee in the city. Ian, pictured, will develop the Newport-based firm’s presence in the South West following a £25m investment in the business last year to grow its lending capacity. With...
Bristol-based national training and leading apprenticeship provider Positive Outcomes has made three senior appointments to further support its continued growth. Ryan Longmate and Kelly Ball, pictured, who have a combined 18 years’ experience at Positive Outcomes, have been promoted to joint managing directors while Richard Doar joins as financial controller to complete the...
Advanced engineering firm Renishaw and Bristol Music Trust, which runs the city’s Colston Hall music venue, have teamed up to give Bristol schoolchildren the chance to design and build their own digital music instruments. The two organisations have come together under a new three-year partnership with hi-tech educators Conductive...
Only Connect, Bristol’s exclusive business and social networking company, stages its landmark 25th event next month – and Bristol Business News has partnered with it to offer a massive 50% discount on ticket prices. The strictly black tie event, on September 17, will bring together 300-plus like-minded professionals in...
Property advisory firm CBRE has gone up in the world for its new Bristol base, taking a penthouse suite on two floors of the city’s highest office building. The move follows a period of sustained growth for the firm with an expanding portfolio of clients and increased staff numbers...
A team from the Bristol office of accountants Bishop Fleming is taking part in a 325-mile cycle relay challenge to raise funds for homeless charity Julian House. The 20-strong Bristol team will start from their office in Queen Square in a four-day relay that goes from the firm’s office...
