Bristol executive Search firm Moon Consulting and Bristol Business News have teamed up again to seek the opinions of business leaders across the South West and find out more about the diverse attitudes and leadership abilities of the region’s boardrooms. The South West Board Effectiveness Survey 2015 enables board directors...
Micrima, the Bristol company developing a safe, low-cost way of improving breast cancer detection, has gained CE marking for its MARIA (Multistatic Array processing for Radiowave Image Acquisition) product, paving the way for further supportive clinical trials in the UK and expansion into Europe. This European regulatory approval is...
The smiles on the faces of staff at skateboard distribution firm Shiner are even wider today after the business scooped the title of Bristol’s happiest workplace. The family-owned firm, based at Aztec West, won the inaugural contest staged by Bristol workplace and interior design consultancy Wylde IA, beating strong...
The second in a series of free half-day workshops showing businesses how they can save money, attract and keep quality staff and boost their brand by adopting corporate social responsibility takes place next week. Sustain-Live, a sustainability development consultancy, is running the training sessions for Blue Orchid as part...
Property finance provider Cambridge & Counties Bank is gearing up for growth in the South West by hiring a new staff member and promoting another in its Bristol-based business development team. Paul Howard, pictured right, who opened the bank’s South West office last year, is promoted to senior business...
Former Conservative minister turned Strictly Come Dancing contestant Ann Widdecombe will give financial directors and accountants an insight into General Election when she speaks at a major business event in Bristol next week. Bath-born Ms Widdecombe, pictured, is guest speaker at the ICAEW West of England Annual Dinner, which...
Regional law firm Foot Anstey has made a number of promotions including nine senior associates, four of them in its Bristol office, and four new legal directors. Alex Cross (commercial), Catherine Haugh (dispute resolution) and Sarah Hale and Zahir Nayani (commercial property) are among the new senior associates. Employment...
Architecture, urban design, planning and regeneration practice Nash Partnership is to expand its presence in Bristol to service a growing portfolio of work in the city. The firm, which has had its headquarters in Bath for 27 years, opened a small serviced office in Bristol’s Wine Street four years...
National law firm Clarke Willmott continues to grow its private client services team with the appointment of Gillian Kennedy-Smith as a senior associate in its Bristol office. Gillian, pictured, who qualified in 2006, joins from offshore firm Carey Olsen in Guernsey, where she worked in one of the largest...
Bristol creative agency Studio Diva has been nominated as a finalist in the games industry’s main annual awards for the second year running. The firm will battle it out with eight other specialist agencies from across the UK in the creative agency team of the year category at the MCV...
Eric Livingston, a partner and construction solicitor at regional law firm Thrings, has become chairman of the Forum for the Built Environment’s (fbe) Great Western branch. Eric, pictured, a specialist in construction procurement, contract preparation and negotiation and resolving construction disputes, assumes the role after serving as regional vice...
West of England law firm Ashfords is to increase its intake of trainee solicitors over the next three years as a result of continued growth. The firm, which has six offices including one in Bristol, is now looking for five more trainees to join it this September and in...
Peter Hargreaves, the multi-millionaire co-founder of Bristol based fund management group Hargreaves Lansdown, stepped down this week as a director with immediate effect. Mr Hargreaves, pictured, stepped down as managing director in 2011 but remained as an executive director, effectively being the company’s figurehead as well as a major...
