Warmley-based brewery Bath Ales has leapt into a league table of the UK’s 50 fastest-growing food and drink firms at number 14 on the back of a 34% growth in compound annual sales over two years. The Fast 50, produced by analysts for The Grocer magazine, ranks independently-owned food...
Investment raised by innovative firms based at SETsquared, the highly-successful business incubator backed by the University of Bristol, has doubled over the past year to £60m – and is expected to rise again in the coming 12 months. Funding has come through a mixture of angel investors, venture capitalists...
West of England accountancy firm Bishop Fleming, which has a large office in Bristol, has secured more than £53m in research and development tax credits for clients over the past year. The tax credits were introduced 14 years ago but take-up had been slow until recently – a fact...
Legal experts from Bristol-headquartered UK law firm Burges Salmon have helped the Department for Education create the country’s first independent not-for-profit company focused entirely on improving social care services for children, young people and their families. The Doncaster Children’s Services Trust was created following sharp criticism a year ago...
Land owners and land agents will have the opportunity to get to grips with the latest regulatory and tax changes at a seminar taking place in Bristol this month. The annual tax update seminar run by accountancy and investment management group Smith & Williamson will include presentations on VAT,...
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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 Amanda Kerin, founder of Inspiring Women Live!, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Eat, Pray, Love. I’m working on my trip...
An innovative video-sharing platform that lets people take ‘groupies’ rather than selfies on their phones has been developed by Bristol tech entrepreneur Tim Kindberg. The Nth Screen has been in development for two years and has already received prototype funding. Tim, who is based in the Pervasive Media studio...
The Bristol Leadership Centre has been launched to support organisations and individuals grappling with the challenges of change, complexity and uncertainty. Based at the UWE’s Bristol Business School, the centre is one of largest of its kind in the country and taps into a growing need for effective and...
The contribution made by design in businesses and the public sector in Bristol is to be analysed for the first time in new academic research. The project, which will also look at design in Bath, brings together experts from UWE Bristol, the University of Bristol and Bath Spa University....
St George’s, the iconic Bristol music venue, has reached the halfway point in its £5.5m appeal to extend and upgrade its facilities after receiving £350,000 in grants. The project was kick-started by an initial pledge from Arts Council of £1.95m, and funds raised from a number of private donors....
Bristol-based business travellers heading to the US from next year be able to fast-track through customs and border security to more cities by flying from Bristol Airport via Dublin. Irish airline Aer Lingus Regional, which has been operating the pre-clearance service to New York for more than a year,...
Low-cost airline easyJet is to introduce direct flights from Bristol Airport to four destinations including Gibraltar next year, taking the number of destinations it serves from the airport to 50. The new destinations follow a five-year agreement between easyJet and Bristol Airport signed last winter to continue the airline’s...
