Monday 8 June Interim: Idox Finals: Falkland Island Holdings, Phoenix IT Trading statement: Drax AGMs: Hansteen Holdings, MoPowered Group EGMs: Renewable Energy Generation, Sound Oil Tuesday 9 June Interims: Gooch & Housego, OMG Finals: Carclo, Creston, Custodian REIT, Energy Assets, iomart, Oxford Instruments, Picton Property Income, RPC Group AGMs:...
Bristol robotics firm Reach, formed by young entrepreneur Silas Adekunle, is to join the US-based Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator to support it in launching its Mecha Monsters robot gaming system. The San Diego-based unit, which is backed by Techstars, has a mission to help the world’s most-promising robotics start-ups take...
Bristol architecture firm Stride Treglown has become the first organisation in the city to achieve the top award of excellence in a national scheme that recognises businesses committed to the health and well-being of their workforces. The firm, which employs 270 people across nine offices in the UK and...
Bristol-based ethical investment management firm Rathbone Greenbank is to host a high-profile seminar and discussion as part of the city’s Big Green Week. Among the speakers at the event, on the theme of ‘Investing in the Future’, will be Eden Project co-founder and executive vice chair Sir Tim Smit....
The Friends of Arnos Vale Cemetery, the organisation that promotes the Bristol historic cemetery as a place of remembrance, heritage, wildlife and learning, has won the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service – the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK. The group was set up in...
Plans for another major development in North Bristol – which would create more than one million sq ft of mixed-use space – have been submitted to council planners. The 65-acre vacant site next to the A38, which includes the former Rolls-Royce East Works, already has outline consent for 1,211,715...
More than 300 delegates from 18 countries across the world will head to Bristol next month as the city hosts the 9th International Fair Trade Towns conference. The two-day event on July 4 and 5 will take the theme of Fair Trade for Sustainability as part of the Bristol’s...
Bristol-based independent insurance broker Hayes Parsons Insurance has maintained its ambitious growth strategy by recruiting two insurance professionals. Nigel Rawlings has joined as compliance and training manager – a new position to help develop and deliver ongoing CPD and training and achieve chartered broker status. Alex O’Donnell, previously a...
National property consultancy GL Hearn has expanded its Bristol office with the appointment of Sally Davis as a senior planner. In her new role, Sally is focusing on promoting residential sites, submitting planning applications and securing consent for proposed developments. Sally started her career in local government as a...
Pensions and employee benefits specialist Mark Flaskett has joined the Bristol office of accountancy and investment management group Smith & Williamson, bringing with him more than three decades of industry experience. Mark, pictured, becomes associate director in the firm’s employee benefits team, where he will be advising directors and...
Millions of pounds have been wiped off the value of SciSys, the specialist IT firm with a base in Bristol after it warned of a major collapse in its profits this year. In a statement to the London Stock Exchange, the Chippenham-headquartered firm – which counts governments, the BBC...
Lloyds Bank has strengthened its global transaction banking business in the South West by appointing Mark Parsons as regional head of its new trade and working capital team. Mark, pictured, who previously headed Lloyds Bank Commercial Finance’s mid markets division in the South West, will be responsible for providing...
All four graduate trainees at Bristol property agency Hartnell Taylor Cook have passed their APC (Assessment of Professional Competence) to become qualified chartered surveyors. Giving the firm a 100% pass rate are Henry deTeissier, pictured top right, an industrial agent, and Tom Gable , pictured bottom right, a property &...
