Ultimate Finance Group, which provides funding to small and medium-sized firms, has welcomed back Mark Bennett to its Bristol head office. Mark, pictured, returns as a regional director having left the company in January 2010 to join a rival. With almost 20 years’ experience within the industry he specialises...
The apple orchards and cider pubs of the West Country may seem a million miles away from Chicago’s skyscrapers but the Windy City is about to hear how British cider leads the world. Thatchers Cider managing director Martin Thatcher has been invited to give a keynote speech at this year’s...
UWE Bristol animation students have made a clean sweep of nominations in the animation category of the RTS West of England Student Awards 2014, replicating last year’s success of three out of three nominations in the category. Three other UWE students have also been nominated in the Drama and...
More young people need to be attracted into jobs in the construction or it will suffer a major skills shortage as the economy recovers, three West of England industry leaders are warning. Gary Higgins and Ben Milsom, founders of GBRS Recruitment, Integral Build director Tim Stringer, and Gemma Day,...
Protecting Bristol Airport from any unfair competition created by the devolution of Air Passenger Duty power to Wales is among the projects the region’s leading business organisation Business West wants addressed by the next Government. Business West, which runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Bristol Initiative, has launched its...
Bristol-headquartered law firm TLT has advised BGL Group, one of the UK’s largest consumer insurance groups, on the sale of the country’s number one specialist motorbike insurer Bennetts. Saga is paying £26.6m to acquire Bennetts, which covers more than 200,000 motorbike enthusiasts – almost half over the age of...
Bristol’s family-run businesses can find out about the kind of support and information available to them from the city’s specialist advisers at a taster session staged by a new insight group. FiB Insight, pioneered by national organisation Families in Business (FiB), is a confidential peer group for family businesses....
Manufacturing firms in the West of England are backing expansion at Heathrow Airport, with results of a new survey showing they believe it would be best for their sector and lead to a better balanced economy. The report by EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, comes ahead of next Tuesday’s deadline...
Bristol’s pioneering business incubator Engine Shed is to be expanded as part of a £18.1m increase in Government funding for the West of England announced this week. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg visited the hi-tech building at Temple Meads on Thursday to announce the funding, which will also go...
Bristol digital entrepreneur Mark Mason has joined the leadership team of city-based research and development tax credit consultancy ForrestBrown to help it continue to grow. He will also seek to improve access for tech firms to the high levels of tax relief they may be eligible to claim against...
The 1970s former Central Electricity Generating Board building at Bedminster Down has been awarded a Grade II listing as one of the most important office buildings of its era. The office development off Bridgwater Road, now called The Pavilions, is among 12 commercial buildings named as representing the finest...
The Bristol office of accountancy and investment management group Smith & Williamson has made two senior promotions. Rebecca Tippet, who works in the assurance and business services team, and John Davies, a private client and charities investment specialist, have been promoted to associate director. Rebecca has been with Smith...
Bristol’s year as European Green Capital officially got underway with a spectacular high-wire act on Saturday evening watched by thousands. In a breath-taking and colourful public opening ceremony, Jade Kindar-Martin from Bristol-based Cirque Bijou cycled along a 120m long high wire set between the city’s iconic A and B Bond...
