Monday 9 March Interims: Abcam, Gemfields Finals: Clarkson, Hansteen Holdings, Prudential, WPP Tuesday 10 March Interims: Close Brothers, Craneware Finals: Bango, Cairn Energy, esure, G4S, Goals Soccer Centres, Hill & Smith Holdings, Inchcape, IP Group, John Menzies, Matomy Media, One Media iP Group, SDL, StatPro, Synectics, Tyman Trading statement:...
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 Eileen Cronin, regional director of Barclays Wealth and Investment Management, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: The film you watched? Taken 3 with Liam...
The West of England’s most ethical companies have been celebrated at the third annual Fairtrade Business Awards. The Best Fairtrade Business Award went to Koolskools, the ethical school clothing and Fairtrade cotton uniforms firm. It was the second year running the Hampshire-based firm has won the top accolade. Other...
Bristol-based serviced accommodation pioneer SACO – one of the city’s business success stories of the past two decades – has merged with international investment group Oaktree Capital Management in a move that creates a £60m business with a portfolio of nearly apartments 1,650 worldwide. SACO was launched 16 years...
Avonmouth-based packaging, logistic and engineering company IES has been approved for the prestigious Military Packager Approval Scheme (MPAS) by the Ministry of Defence. IES is the first company in the country to secure MPAS through the route of gaining approval from scratch, rather than being transferred over from the...
Specialist recruitment firm Matrix is rapidly scaling up its Bristol operation – taking its headcount from six to 50 – to meet spiralling demand in the city’s food manufacturing industry. Matrix, which has specialised in IT programme and project management recruitment for the past 19 years, has identified the...
Bristol companies are being offered the opportunity to attend one of a series of free workshops to help improve their digital presence and capability, and trade more effectively online. They will allow businesses to focus on the future of mobile, covering effective digital marketing techniques that can help give companies...
Businesses from Bristol’s environmental and low carbon sectors will gain an insight into the green policies of the political parties at an event next Thursday hosted by Low Carbon South West, PR and parliamentary affairs agency JBP and accountants Smith & Williamson. Bristol may be celebrating its year as...
Bristol is aiming to become a ‘city of excellence’ for customer service by training 3,000 workers in its tourism, hospitality, transport and retail sectors. Already signed up to take part in the exercise are European Green Capital 2015, which has pledged to train all its volunteers, and transport firm...
The Royal Navy has awarded specialist engineering firm SEA a five-year, £1.4m contract to support its weapon systems. Under the contract, SEA, which has a base in North Bristol, will provide its expertise to the Navy’s magazine torpedo launch system (MTLS), the SeaGnat decoy launcher and a range of...
Bristol’s Society of Merchant Venturers has committed £58,000 to local charities across the city and invited further good causes to apply to its Charity Committee for grants. A further £10,000 has been pledged to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre school development project, which has been experiencing difficulties and delay...
Ahead of this Sunday’s International Women’s Day, the Association of Women in Property (WiP) is this evening hosting an event to highlight the work of Concern Universal, the charity aiming to bring opportunities to communities worldwide and help to beat poverty. The drinks and tapas reception at The Lido,...
Landmark Clifton office block Embassy House is now fully let following the arrival of TV production company Endemol UK. The firm, which films its Deal or No Deal game show at Bristol’s Bottle Yard Studios, has agreed to a new 10-year lease for 5,176 sq ft (480 sq m)...
