Bristol-based language training company Living Learning English is on its way to Brazil as it continues to tap into a large and growing global demand for personalised English. Living Learning English (LLE) arranges for people wanting to learn English to stay with a tutor in their home, immersing them...
A healthy intake of orders at the end of last year has given specialist software and IT group SciSys a “solid opening” to 2014, it said today, while also signalling that it would look for further acquisitions. The international group, which works with governments, media groups, defence companies and...
The Bristol office of accountancy firm Grant Thornton has advised on the £117m sale of Wiltshire fuel distribution business Watson to US-based global fuel logistics group World Fuel Services. Family-owned Watson, which employs 670 people, will now be combined with World Fuel Services’ existing UK operations. Watson, based at...
Plasterboard manufacturer and supplier Siniat has opened a £250,000 state-of-the-art laboratory at its flagship Portbury manufacturing plant. The lab – the latest step in a long-term vision to improving the site, formerly owned by Lafarge Plasterboard – provides a modern, high-spec environment for Siniat’s production, maintenance and quality assurance...
Liz Zeidler and Philippa Bayley have been elected as chair of Bristol Green Capital Partnership for this year in a job share. Philippa is manager of the University of Bristol’s Cabot Institute, which brings together all the university’s work on living with environmental uncertainty, while Liz is a founding...
Accountants PwC have launched their annual search for the region’s best companies with the 2014 West of England Business of the Year Awards – the region’s most prestigious business accolades. Previous winners of the awards, now in their 26th year, read like a who’s who of the West’s most-respected...
Business West, the organisation behind Bristol Chamber of Commerce, has called on the Bank of England not to raise interest rates despite a further fall in unemployment across the UK. Welcoming the latest labour market figures – which show the national unemployment rate has fallen to 7.1%, its lowest...
The centre of Bristol will undergo a new residential revolution over the next two years as thousands of new apartments are built, many of them in converted office blocks, according to new research. Bristol has already experienced a big increase in city-centre living over the past decade and is...
GKN Aerospace, the advanced engineering firm, is to increase its intake of apprentices as production is stepped up at its two major plants in Bristol. The firm, which produces wing parts for aircraft manufacturers such as Airbus and Lockheed Martin at the plants at Filton and Western Approach, Severnside,...
Bristol’s green credentials have received a major boost with a move that could slash residents’ energy bills by £3.5m a year, save 17,900 tonnes of CO2 and cut the city’s domestic gas use by 5%. The ambitious plans, approved by the city council Cabinet today, come as preparations are...
Bristol’s commercial property market will bounce back strongly this year with more speculative office developments and higher rents, according to the latest Market Monitor report from agents Alder King. A marked recovery in occupier confidence has pushed available office and industrial space down to their lowest levels for five...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com Plans to develop a Japanese-style ‘pod’ backpacker hostel in an empty building in Old Market have been submitted to Bristol City Council. Space for up to 76 guests will be provided by a series of capsules, measuring 2 metres long, 1.25metres wide and 1 metre...
Businesses interested in exploring links with China have a chance to generate new connections in the country at a gala banquet in Bristol next month. The Bristol China Partnership hosts the event at Bristol’s Zen restaurant to mark Chinese New Year on February 12. Partnership chief executive Dianne Francombe...
