Bristol financial planning firm Paradigm Norton has been awarded the title of accredited financial planning firm of the year by the Institute of Financial Planning (IFP). Paradigm Norton, headed by chief executive Barry Horner, was presented with the prestigious national award by IFP president Rebecca Taylor at the professional...
Bristol will have a bright economic future if it harnesses the innovation of its key sectors and the talents of its skilled workforce and also markets itself effectively, a major conference heard this week. But it needs to overcome some serious issues, particularly around transport, and it needs to...
A major conference this afternoon will explain why Bristol is set to have one of the UK’s best-performing local economies as the country moves out of recession. The high-profile Bristol’s Bright Future event at Ashton Gate will hear from a range of speakers who will take the pulse of...
Among speakers at this afternoon’s Bristol’s Bright Future conference are: James Durie, executive director of Bristol Chamber of Commerce & Initiative at Business West, the organisation that leads and speaks for business in the Bristol, Bath and wider area. It provides a range of services from business start-up, business...
West property consultancy Alder King has been appointed to find occupiers for a floor of Knightstone Housing’s prestigious headquarters building in Weston-super-Mare. Construction of the state of the art 40,000 sq ft building ends later this month, bringing to a close one of the largest office UK construction projects...
Business recovery specialist firm Begbies Traynor has scooped the title of South West Regional Insolvency Practitioner Firm of the Year in the national Insolvency and Rescue Awards. The accolade was presented to partner and head of the South West Regional team, Julie Palmer, at a packed ceremony at the...
Monday 14 October Finals: Nanoco, Tristel Trading statements: Essentra, McBride AGMs: Greenko, McBride EGM: Phytopharm Tuesday 15 October Interim: Lombard Risk Management Finals: Bellway, dotDigital, Utilitywise Trading statements: Burberry, Carpetright, e2v Technologies, Hargreaves Lansdown, Michael Page International, Rio Tinto EGM: LXB Retail Properties Economics: Producer prices, ONS house prices,...
Osborne Clarke and Gregg Latchams scooped the law firms of the year titles at this year’s Bristol Law Society annual awards dinner staged last night. Osborne Clark – one Bristol’s ‘big two’ firms – won the award for Law Firm of the Year with more than 15 partners sponsored...
Bristol’s latest networking club launched this week with the hot topic of nuclear energy and the economic boost the yet-to-be-built Hinkley Point C reactor is already bringing to the area. The Bristol Curry Club, which is aimed primarily at those working in property, finance and construction, attracted more than...
A four-point plan to boost Bristol’s economic growth will be unveiled next week at the high-powered Bristol’s Bright Future conference. Global property consultants Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), which has an office in the city, has identified four key areas that it believes will consolidate and build on the Bristol’s...
The Bristol office of the accountancy and investment management group Smith & Williamson has appointed Faye Hall as an associate director. Faye, pictured, who has more than 18 years’ experience in forensic accounting, joins from accountants BDO, where she was a senior manager and had worked since 2002. She...
This summer’s Gromit public art trail and exhibition – when 80 statues of the canine superstar were placed around Bristol – contributed £120m to the city’s economy, according to organisers. An estimated 1.18m people came to the city during the hugely-successful Gromit Unleashed project this summer – delivering a...
Mayor of Bristol George Ferguson has hailed a pioneering green energy scheme as an example of how the city will be a “laboratory for change” when it becomes European Green Capital in 2015. The £2.8m SoLa Bristol project went live in Knowle West this week with homes, schools and...
