Welsh firms are relocating to the Bristol area to avoid increases in tolls on the Severn Bridges, according to the boss of a Cardiff-based logistics company. Prices to cross the M4 and M48 bridges, which are used by about 80,000 vehicles every day, rose on New Year's Day with...
Some of Bristol’s best-known business figures have been recognised in the New Year’s Honours list. Peter Hargreaves, the co-founder of Bristol-based investment services provider Hargreaves Lansdown, has been awarded the CBE for services to business, innovation, financial services. Don Cameron, founder of Bristol-based Cameron Balloons and figurehead for the...
Bristol-based advisers and funders from law firm Burges Salmon, accountants Deloitte and PwC and banking group HSBC are behind a major dairy industry deal that completed this week. The deal gives farmer-owned Milk Partnership Limited (MPL) accession to corporate membership of Europe’s leading dairy cooperative Arla Foods amba and...
A dinner hosted by the Bristol-based private client team of accountants Smith & Williamson has raised more than £8,000 for the Bristol and North Somerset branch of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT). More than 80 supporters of the charity attended the annual fund-raising dinner, which was co-sponsored...
Bristol City Council has completed the restructure of its top management team with the appointment of Barra Mac Ruairí as its fourth strategic director. Currently strategic director for regeneration at Bradford City Council, Barra, pictured, will join Bristol City Council as strategic director for place, responsible for major projects,...
As the mood of business becomes more optimistic, James Durie, executive director for Bristol Chamber of Commerce & Initiative, pictured, maps out in his New Year message how Bristol can share in the growth that everyone is predicting for 2014. “It’s been a tough five years, and no one...
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Monday 23 December AGMs: Berkeley Mineral Resources, Premier African Minerals EGMs: Raven Russia, SThree Tuesday 24 December Economics: British Bankers’ Association – loans for house purchases data Wednesday 25 December UK Bank holiday – nothing scheduled Thursday 26 December UK Bank holiday - nothing scheduled Friday 27 December Nothing...
Airbus has landed a significant pre-Christmas boost for its long-established A330 long-haul aircraft with a firm order for 25 from fast-growing low-cost carrier AirAsia X. The £3.67bn contract, the largest one-off order for A330s order received by Airbus, is good news for the 5,000 workers at Airbus’s Filton engineering...
The Bristol office of national construction group Seddon has been appointed by Rooftop Housing Group to build a 49-home, £5.9m specialist housing scheme for older residents in Coleford, Gloucestershire. Construction work has just started on the development which will create a dementia-focused housing with care complex made up of...
The new office of Weston-super-Mare based PR and marketing agency Plum Communications has officially been opened by the town’s mayor. Cllr Keith Morris cut a ribbon as Plum welcomed clients and suppliers to the newly-converted building at Bleadon. Local singer/songwriter and Plum client Ryan Inglis, a national finalist in...
Business development specialist Rebecca Tregarthen takes over next month as the first woman to chair the Bristol branch of the Institute of Directors. She will head a 10-strong team providing a support network and services for more than 600 members in the Bristol area. A teacher by training,...
Bristol-based wealth management and financial planning company Deverill Black & Co has been acquired by Towry, the national wealth advice group. Deverill Black, pictured, has been trading since 2001 from an office in Redland. Led by Iain Black, who has been in financial services for 30 years, it has...
