Eight business leaders have been appointed to the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership’s board to help drive its growth ambitions. Five new representatives join three reappointed members on the newly formed LEP board, which meets for the first time on June 17. LEP board members are drawn from...
Annual revenues have grown by 7% to £106.4m at national law firm Bond Dickinson, which has an office in Bristol, with profits up 20%. The figures, for the 2014-15 financial year, cap a strong year for the firm with high-profile panel wins and retentions including Sainsbury’s, AIG UK and...
American supercomputer giant Cray has opened its new European, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) headquarters in Bristol – strengthening the city’s reputation as a hotbed for IT innovation. A global leader in supercomputing, Cray is behind the Met Office’s new £97m supercomputer in Exeter – set to be one...
The derelict sorting office building next to Temple Meads station which for years has blighted the entrance to the city for rail passengers has been acquired by Bristol City Council. The eyesore 2.1 hectare site, alongside the area planned for the city’s long hoped for arena, has been disused...
Bristol business owners can connect with experienced enterprise mentors at an event next week which aims to share experience and skills to benefit small and medium-sized firms. The free Meet A Mentor session on June 9 takes place at AtBristol on Harbourside and is being staged by Lloyds Banking Group...
Monday June 1 Finals: GB, Syqic Trading statement: SVG Capital AGMs: CPP, Keywords Studios, Silence Therapeutics EGM: Euromoney Institutional Investor Economics: Market UK PMI – manufacturing Tuesday June 2 Interim: RWS Finals: Acal, AO World, First Derivatives, Londonmetric Property, Synergy Health Trading statements: Amec Foster Wheeler, Harvey Nash, Wolseley...
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 John David, Head of Rathbone Greenbank Investments, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? The Grand Budapest Hotel. I live in the...
South Bristol is set for an economic and jobs boost following the official opening this week of the £12m Filwood Green Business Park. The city council claims hundreds of jobs could be created on the business park – a flagship project of Bristol’s year as European Green Capital which...
Four more summer holiday routes have been added to Bristol Airport’s rapidly-lengthening destination board following the decision by travel giants Thomson and First Choice to add a third aircraft to their fleet at the airport. The move means the holiday firms, both part of TUI UK and Ireland, will...
Innovative Bristol firm YellowDog, which believes it can create the world’s fastest super-computer by using spare computing power from PCs and laptops, is looking to raise £150,000 in crowdfunding. The firm, based in the Engine Shed innovation hub, is already using the system to help animators who need extra...
A new series of the successful CBeebies show Andy’s Prehistoric Adventures is the latest production to begin filming at Bristol’s Bottle Yard Studios. The third series of the popular show which will comprise 25 episodes, combines BBC archive footage with the latest digital CGI and green-screen technology to send...
PR, digital and creative agency Purplex Marketing has built on its Google Partner status with two members of its digital team completing the Google Adwords programme. Jennifer Hearn and Edward Billett passed the exams with flying colours. Weston-super-Mare-based Purplex provides a complete PPC (pay-per-click) service which includes sponsored links...
Las Iguanas, the Bristol-based Latin American restaurant group, has achieved certificates of excellence from TripAdvisor for two thirds of its eligible outlets. Some 22 branches of the national chain, which launched in 1991 when it opened its first restaurant in St Nicholas Street, Bristol, are now ranked in the...
