Export chiefs hope that a former shipping container covered with colourful street art will hold the key to getting more Bristol firms to take their business to the world. Launched this week outside the city’s Engine Shed innovation hub, Business West’s #GetExporting campaign highlights the benefits of exporting in...
Real estate lawyer Nicholas Lykke Dahn has joined West of England law firm Ashfords’ Bristol office as a property partner, bringing with him a clutch of blue-chip corporate clients. Nicholas, pictured, joins after 11 years with Oxfordshire based commercial law firm BrookStreet des Roches where he specialised in commercial...
Former TUC general secretary Sir Brendan Barber will be guest speaker at next week’s CBI South West annual dinner. The black-tie dinner is traditionally one of the key events in the region’s business calendar, attracting many of its leading businessmen and women as well as political figures. This year’s...
Jobs are at risk at Bristol pensions company Friends Life after its directors agreed to sell the business to UK insurance giant Aviva for £5.6bn. The deal will create the UK’s largest insurance, savings and asset management firm. The boards of the two businesses have been negotiating a deal...
Economic development in the Avonmouth and Severnside areas has been given a massive boost after the Government today finally gave the go ahead to a new junction on the M49 near Bristol. South Gloucestershire Council and the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership first made a plea for the...
Aero-engine giant Rolls-Royce is to invest £18m in its Bristol plant to repair and maintain engines for the Airbus A400M military transport aircraft. With the planes now entering service with the RAF, the plant at Patchway has been chosen as the location for a new facility to perform maintenance,...
Fast-growing West of England accountancy firm Bishop Fleming, which has an office in Bristol, has added another tax director to the team which holds the title of ‘Best Tax Practice in a Regional Firm’. The latest recruit is Isobel Savage, previously head of the tax at Old Mill in...
Monday 1 December Interim: Bonmarche Holdings Finals: Aberdeen Asset Management, Intelligent Energy EGM: Connect Economics: Net consumer credit, Net lending secured on dwellings, Mortgage approvals, M4 money supply, Market UK purchasing managers’ index – manufacturing, Halifax house prices Tuesday 2 December Interims: Anite, Northgate, Park Group, Sweett Group, Tricorn,...
An ‘explosive’ beer has been created by two award-winning master brewers to toast the merger of their businesses. Dynamite IPA is the first collaboration for Nik Milo, from Cotswold Spring, and Steve McDonald, of Severn Vale, whose businesses have joined forces to create Combined Brewers Ltd. Very different from...
The trend for pop-up shops and restaurants may be overheating but Bristol has maintained it cool reputation by being the location for a chilled-out pop-up ice rink and bar. Property firm THAT group has transformed a derelict Clifton building site into an alpine ski lodge and real ice rink....
Innovation incubator SETsquared, which is backed by the University of Bristol, has unveiled two new projects – a £3.2m programme to speed up the commercialisation of university research and a partnership with academic health science networks to help NHS patients. The double boost was announced as it staged a...
Energy sector experts from Bristol-based law firm Burges Salmon have advised project company Mersey Bioenergy on a new £110m project to construct a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant on Merseyside. The project in Widnes will be the largest waste wood renewable energy plant in the North West and...
National multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy Clarkebond, which has an office in Bristol, has been ranked as the UK’s second-fastest growing consultancy. The firm leapt 31 places in the recently published 2014 Building Magazine’s Top 150 Consultants list to the number two position as a result growth in its offices in...
