Budding musicians and music lovers from Bristol’s business community are invited to join the city’s best blues and jazz jam night next week. Taking place at Harveys Cellars, Denmark Street, on the first Tuesday of every month, the event is a great opportunity for musicians of all standards –...
Business owners and directors, professional advisers and private clients were among the 450-plus guests who attended accountancy firm Smith & Williamson’s annual client event at the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) in Clifton. The accountancy and investment management group hosted the drinks reception to enable its guests to...
Charlotte Hopley, senior economic intelligence officer at the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), explains the importance of a robust evidence as the basis for business decision making. At a time when resources are being stripped back it is vital that we target our efforts in the right...
Stirling Dynamics, the Bristol-based specialised advanced engineering firm, is to step up product development after selling a majority stake to private equity house Endless. The firm, which employs 102 people, provides advanced engineering design services to the aerospace, marine and energy sectors focusing on active control technologies, aerospace engineering...
Creative enterprise should be at the heart of economic thinking in the UK, Creative England chief executive Caroline Norbury will argue in a lecture to be delivered in Bristol next week. Ms Norbury, pictured, the former chief executive of Bristol-based South West Screen, will explain how creativity can not...
Bristol-based national recruitment firm Resource Solutions Group (RSG) is to expand into Europe following five years of sustained growth in the UK. The parent group of specialist resourcing companies Sanderson and Resource Management, RSG’s turnover reached £220m this year. Now it is seeking to develop operations in northern Europe...
Bristol public relations firms are celebrating success in prestigious 2014 CIPR South of England and the Channel Islands PRide Awards held in the city last Friday. The eagerly-contested awards, staged by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), champion the best PR campaigns, practitioners and organisations with many of...
Stands for The Business Showcase South West – the major business event which celebrates the best of the region’s innovation, creativity and enterprise – are now on sale and pre-registration for delegates has also gone live. Following the huge success of the inaugural event in April this year, The...
Chancellor George Osborne has been asked to play Santa in next week’s Autumn Statement and give Bristol firms three early Christmas presents – action on business rates, infrastructure and apprenticeships. The wish-list comes from Business West, the organisation that runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Bristol Initiative. It...
Luxury goods brand Mulberry has appointed the head designer of French ready-to-wear fashion house Céline as its new creative director. Johnny Coca will join Mulberry, best known for its leather bags, next July from Paris-based Céline, where he is currently head design director for leather goods, shoes, hard accessories,...
Bristol events and PR agency Brandon Hill Communications has been acquired by international marketing group Bray Leino. Brandon Hill, which was founded in 2006 by leading Bristol PR industry figure Ian Muir, has already worked with Devon-based Bray Leino on joint projects. The two formed a consortium earlier this...
Bristol city centre’s landmark Colston Tower has been sold for £12.3m – earning its London-based owners a £2m profit since they bought it three-and-a-half years ago. Property investment companies Development Securities and Ellandi bought the 15-storey office block in a 75:25 joint venture from the HSBC Pension Fund in...
Monday 24 November Interims: Cranswick, Eckoh, GB Group, Solid State Trading Statements: Amlin EGMs: Amlin, International Biotechnology, Puricore Economics: Nationwide house prices Tuesday 25 November Interims: Accumuli, AO World, Byotrol, Caledonia Investments, Creston, De La Rue, Kcom, Phoenix IT Group, Quintain Estates & Development, Renold, Scapa Group, Severfield, Severn...
