Business in the Community (BITC), the national charity promoting corporate responsibility, has appointed Dairy Crest chief executive Mark Allen as chairman of its South West Advisory Board. Mark, pictured, who previously chaired BITC’s National Rural Leadership team, will now focus on helping South West businesses of all sizes integrate...
A bursary scheme has been set up by Bristol-based Wildscreen, the world’s leading wildlife and environmental film festival, to encourage aspiring young filmmakers to join the industry. The six ROAR Talent bursaries are part of a new programme being introduced to this year’s Wildscreen Festival. Applicants aged between 17...
Economic growth is set to return to its pre-recession level in the second half of this year – nearly six years after the global financial crisis first hit, according to figures published today. High confidence levels are fuelling growth across all sectors, with manufacturing particularly optimistic, while many firms...
Monday 10 March Finals: Clarkson, Escher Group, Goals Soccer Centres AGMs: Ecofin Water & Power Tuesday 11 March Interims: Close Brothers, Craneware, Kalibrate Technologies, St. Ives Finals: Computacenter, Empresaria Group, esure, Foxtons, Hansteen Holdings, Hill & Smith Holdings, Inchcape, Stadium Group, Tyman Trading statement: Fenner AGMs: GW Pharmaceuticals, Vatukoula...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com Bristol will celebrate the 25th anniversary of two of its most famous sons’ first appearance with a major new exhibition dedicated to Wallace & Gromit. It is a quarter of a century since the dynamic, plasticine duo made their screen debut in A Grand Day...
Talented individuals working in Bristol’s creative industry are being urged to enter the second Brand You Awards. The scheme is different to most others in an industry known for its countless awards for campaigns and projects as it focuses on the individual – the freelancer or member of staff...
Leading figures in business and education will discuss how they can work more closely together to prepare young people for the workplace at a high-profile event next week. Among panel members at the debate staged by the Institute of Directors (IoD) Bristol branch, will be Dan Nicholls, principal of...
Bristol’s iconic International Balloon Fiesta, now in its 36th year, has been launched to the city’s business community with a plea to get involved. The Fiesta attracts around 500,000 visitors and more than 150 balloons, making it the second-largest event of its kind in the world and one of...
Bristol law firm Temple Bright has added another practice area to its operations with the arrival of insolvency and turnaround specialist Phil Winterborne from Clarke Willmott. Phil, pictured, will head a new insolvency and turnaround practice based in Temple Bright’s Bristol office. He expects much of his work to...
Frozen food retail chain Farmfoods is to build a major logistics centre at Bristol’s Central Park, the South West’s largest distribution scheme – delivering a further boost to the region’s recovering industrial property market. The 175,000 sq ft temperature-controlled distribution centre will be built by Central Park owner Delta...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com The Bristol women who set up the UK’s first all-female radio station – Fem FM – are to get a permanent record of their achievement with the opening tomorrow of a digital archive dedicated to their project. Launched to mark International Women’s Day, the official...
Shops, cafes, hotels, independent financial advisers and universities were among the winners in this year’s South West Fairtrade Business awards, which champion firms that put ethical responsibilities at the heart of their business. The awards, staged yesterday at Bristol’s City Hall, attracted scores of entrants from across the region....
Bristol-based student accommodation specialist Unite is to raise around £100m through new shares to speed up its development programme in key UK university cities. The firm said half the new funding would be used in this way to take advantage of cyclically-low development costs. The other half will be...
