West-based global engineering firm Renishaw has signed a year-long deal with Bristol’s iconic music venue Colston Hall to sponsor an innovative new music programme at its incubator concert space The Lantern. Under the partnership, employees of the Wotton-under-Edge firm, which makes hi-tech measuring devices used in a range of...
Bristol digital agency e3 has deployed the latest digital thinking to launch a website for the Royal Navy which aims to give the public a better understanding of what it does and why it should matter to them. Targeted at multiple audiences, www.royalnavy.mod.uk charts the story of the 500-year-old...
Bristol-based outsourcing group Mitie predicted further strong growth this year as it unveiled a 4.3% increase in annual pre-tax profits to £113.3m. The increase came on revenues up 8.2% to £2.14bn – the result of a number of major contract wins during the year to the end of March. ...
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Bristol Mayor George Ferguson performed the ribbon cutting to officially open commercial law firm Meade King’s new office – and revealed he had been a client of the firm 45 years ago. The Mayor had engaged the long-established Bristol firm not long after moving to the city to work...
Bristol’s distinctive St Vincent’s Works industrial building, described as the city’s very own Disney castle, has gone onto the market for the first time in more than 20 years. Built when Queen Victoria was still on the throne as the headquarters of Bristol company John Lysaght, the Grade II*...
Work on the first phase of a new public square on Bristol’s waterfront have been completed. Museum Square has been created as part of developer Umberslade's £26m, 3.5-hectare Wapping Wharf scheme and was this week be handed over to the city’s M Shed museum to be used as an...
Turtle Bay, the Caribbean restaurant chain launched by Bristol entrepreneur Ajith Jayawickrema, is to open its ninth outlet next month in Bath. The group is moving into part of a former music store in the vibrant heart of Bath – the latest restaurant to open in World Heritage city’s...
Bristol City Council has opened the bidding process to operate the city’s long-awaited arena – and according to Mayor George Ferguson there is no shortage of potential operators for the 12,000-capacity venue. The council staged a bidders’ day yesterday for would-be partners when they were given full details of...
West accountancy firm Bishop Fleming’s technical tax director Andy Richens has agreed to spend more time as an adviser to Chancellor George Osborne’s Office of Tax Simplification (OTS). Mr Richens, pictured, was seconded to the OTS last year an adviser on small business taxation issues. Now he has been...
Accountancy firm Baker Tilly has appointed Kate Reid as managing partner for its Bristol and Bath offices. Kate, pictured, joined Baker Tilly as a partner in 2010. In her new role she will be responsible for the firm’s strategy and business development in the Bristol and Bath markets, and...
The world’s largest independent mobile solutions company Somo has chosen Bristol to set up a specialist engineering centre, adding to the city's growing reputation as a hub for technology and innovation. The base, one of the first of its kind, will focus on developing licensed mobile products and platforms....
Adventurer and TV personality Monty Halls took a break from a jungle expedition in Guyana to give a seminar on leadership and team building to business leaders in Bristol. In an event sponsored by Bristol-based executive recruiters Moon Consulting, 50 of the region’s most prominent directors gathered at the...
