Cider maker Thatchers has planted more than 100,000 trees to boost its supply of home-grown apples – an investment that, literally, will not bear fruit for at least six years. The firm, which produces 50m litres of cider a year and is developing a vibrant export business, is committed...
Business West, the organisation behind Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Bristol Initiative, has called on all political parties contesting next week’s General Election to focus on policies that promote growth in the light figures showing a slowdown over the past three months. It said the official GDP statistics...
The next government’s top priority must be to invest in the country’s infrastructure, according to a survey of fast-growth entrepreneurial businesses across the South West. Some 31% taking part in the survey for accountants EY put road, rail and air links at the top of their wish lists followed...
Jessie May children’s hospice – the Bristol charity providing nursing care at home for children and young people with life-limiting conditions – is to benefit from Bath Racecourse’s Big Bank Holiday Family Fun Day on Monday. As well as a full day’s racing with seven races, there will be...
Organisers of next month’s Business Showcase South West have come up with five compelling reasons for business people to attend what will be the biggest of its kind in the region The event, on May 14 and 15 at Bristol’s Colston Hall, will celebrate the best in innovation, creativity...
Bristol’s historic Society of Merchant Venturers has appointed Quartet Community Foundation chief executive Caroline Duckworth as its next treasurer. She will take up the role in November. The treasurer is the most senior executive position within the Society – equivalent to the role of chief executive in a business....
The chief executive of one of Bristol’s fastest-growing companies is to battle it out with 34 other entrepreneurs for one of the UK’s most-respected business awards. Justin Ash, pictured, of Oasis Healthcare, the UK’s number one provider of private dentistry, has been shortlisted in the London and South region...
Bristol-based Integral Build has completed a further two projects in North London for leisure centre operator Fusion Lifestyle. The firm’s work at Enfield Leisure Centre included installing a new gym and indoor cycle studio while at Southbury Leisure Centre it fully refurbished the gym with the latest in fitness equipment...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon has appointed six new partners, half them former trainees with the firm. The move takes Burges Salmon’s total number of partners to 81, reflecting its continued growth across a number of sectors and practice areas. The new partners are: Lloyd James, who becomes...
Monday 27 April Interim: Lok’n Store Trading statement: Centrica AGMs: Centrica, Dragon Oil, Good Energy Group, Minoan Group Economics: CBI trends, total orders, selling prices, business optimism Tuesday 28 April Interims: AB Dynamics, Avacta, Infrastrata, Xeros Technology Finals: Allied Minds, Avocet Mining, Centralnic Group, Next Fifteen Communications, Whitbread Trading...
Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word. This week Vashti Seth, founder and CEO of Bristol-based microfinance charity Deki, answers our questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Grand Budapest Hotel because Wes Anderson is genius. Book you...
A team of Bristol tech experts have used their spare time to devise an app that aims to revolutionise the school run by getting more children to walk or cycle. By using the app, called Crocodile, parents can track the progress of the children on their way to and...
Bristol creative agency Taxi Studio is relocating to state-of-the art offices at Bath Road Studios to accommodate its ambitious growth plans and get round a lack of parking at its current base. The agency, now based in Clifton Village, has taken 5,562 sq ft at the iconic former ITV...
