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...
Solicitors at law firm Clarke Willmott’s Bristol office have helped bring Rod Stewart to the West Country for a major open-air charity concert next summer. The veteran singer will appear at Somerset Cricket Club’s Taunton ground as part of his five-night UK tour. The concert has been organised by...
Klaus Heidrich, chief operating officer of specialist software and IT group SciSys, which has a base in Bristol, will assume the role of chief executive on January 1. He will take over from David Jones, who will remain with the group as executive director for the foreseeable future. SciSys...
The Bristol-based pensions audit team of accountants Smith & Williamson has been appointed to the new Audit Services Panel launched this week by the Pension Protection Fund (PPF). The team joins the new six-member panel which aims to ensure that workers with pensions in companies that go bust do...
Bond Dickinson, the national law firm with an office in Bristol, has been appointed by international insurance company AIG to handle its high-volume contract work. The appointment follows Bond Dickinson’s re-appointment to AIG’s legal panel earlier this year. Bond Dickinson was awarded the contract after a competitive tender process...
West law firm Foot Anstey’s Islamic finance team have ended 2013 by advising on another multi-million property deal, taking the value of transactions arranged this year to more than £200m. The latest is the £40m acquisition of 10 care homes backed by shari’ah-compliant investment advisory firm 90 North Real...
