The West of England Local Enterprise Partnership’s skills team is holding its first ‘show and tell’ event next Tuesday at UWE. Aimed at educators and skills providers, local employers, careers advisers and other LEPs from across the country, the Skills: An Insight conference will showcase some of their innovative...
One of Bristol’s highest-profile office buildings has been bought by a specialist investment firm for £4.6m. St James Court, a five-storey 36,488 sq ft building, is let to a number of tenants, including the office equipment finance division of BNP Paribas and bakery chain Greggs. Some 72% of the...
Jordans, the Bristol-based corporate information group, has launched a corporate law business to offer legal support services to companies across the UK. The group has set up Jordans Corporate Law under the Alternative Business Structure arrangements, which encourage new entrants into the legal market. However, it stressed it would...
Firms are being sought to sponsor rower and University of Bristol PhD student Elsa Hammond’s epic solo voyage across the Pacific. Elsa, pictured, will be the only European solo female competitor in the 2,400 mile race from California to Hawaii this summer during which she will row for up...
Two innovative Bristol firms that help young entrepreneurs, students and business owners have teamed up to stage a high-profile networking event. Held as part of international networking week, the event next Tuesday will also act as the official launch for one of the businesses. Missionly is the creation of...
Bristol-based Chinese takeaway chain Hotcha is celebrating the most successful launch of any of its nine outlets. The branch in Yate achieved record-breaking sales in its first week of trading after opening in mid-December, serving more than 1,500 customers over seven days. James Liang, the entrepreneur who founded Hotcha...
Joni Farthing, founder and director of Women Outside The Box, the Bristol-based festival of female entrepreneurship, has been shortlisted for the IoD’s inaugural Women Changing the Business World Awards. The awards, staged in association with HSBC and the IoD’s Director magazine, celebrate the inspirational female business leaders who are...
Turnover at law firm Thrings, which has an office in Bristol, rose by 4% to £21.5m in the year to last April, it has revealed. Profits increased by 12% to £4.9m. The firm, which also has offices in Bath, Swindon and London, has 51 members and employs 305 people,...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com Organisers of the Bristol Pride festival, which celebrates the city’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, are seeking business sponsors to support the rising costs of staging the annual event. Last year 25,000 people attended the festival in Castle Park to watch top acts such...
Half-year profits at West advanced engineering group Renishaw plunged by 65% to £25.6m yesterday due to lower orders in the Far East. Revenue was also down from £174.2m to £164.0m. The Wotton-under-Edge-based group, one of the region’s most successful manufacturers, said the figures for the six months to December...
Calls for a full-scale shake-up of business rates have continued unabated despite the Government pledging a £415m package of relief for small firms. The West of England’s largest business group Business West, which runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce, said while it welcomed the announcement, it amounted to little more...
Shares in West-based international luxury goods group Mulberry lost more than a quarter of their value this week as it warned that lower UK sales at Christmas will mean its annual profits will be “substantially” less than expected. It also said “significant” cancellations in the wholesale market in Korea...
Business organisations across the West have welcomed the latest GDP figures showing that the UK economy grew by 0.7% in the last quarter – bringing the annual growth rate to 1.9%. But there were warnings that much more needs to be done to ensure the recovery stays on track...
