High-growth and emerging markets may remain top of the exporting agenda, but UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) is urging West businesses not to forget the commercial benefits of markets closer to home. As a result, the lucrative benefits of doing business in Germany are to be explained at a...
Plans to build a highly-controversial barrage across the Severn Estuary were struck a major blow today with a report from MPs concluding it should not go ahead in its current form. The House of Commons’ Energy and Climate Change Committee (ECCC) said the 11-mile, £25bn project would not be...
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Milsted Langdon, the Bristol-based accountancy firm, has said more about its recently completed merger with fellow city practice Geoff Gollop & Co. Under the deal, which was signed and sealed on 31 May, all Geoff Gollop & Co staff and clients have transferred to Milsted Langdon’s offices on Redcliff...
A strong performance by West exporters has put the region ahead of the UK for overseas sales growth. Exports by West firms increased by 4.8% to £3.4bn during the first quarter of this year compared to the same period last year, latest figures released by HM Revenue & Customs...
Bristol law firm TLT has advised on the sale of Chippenham-based specialist software group Preactor to Siemens in a deal that will enable the German industrial giant to further expand into the software market. The Preactor Group, which has bases in North America, India, France, Spain and China, specialises...
Bristol’s newly-launched Beerd Brewery is planning to shake up the beer market with a quest to offer drinkers the most interesting – and intriguing – pint around. The brewery uses unusual ingredients such as chilli, liquorice and vanilla to ensure its beers stand out from the crowd, with each...
UWE Bristol has secured outline planning permission for its vision to build a university for the 21st Century. The masterplan aims to satisfy UWE’s changing needs over the next 25 years with a range of building proposals supported by the necessary infrastructure. The proposals will transform the way the...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT today announced a 10% increase its annual turnover to £49m in the financial year 2012/13 and revealed it is to open an office in Manchester as it continues to grow acfross the UK. The firm said the move supported its strategy of having a...
The Basecamp Project, a business start-up scheme run by students for students at the University of Bristol, last night won the Best Student Enterprise Experience Award at the SETsquared student enterprise awards. The project, supported by the university’s research, enterprise & development division, has provided support to almost 100...
Bristol’s prime commercial property sites will be in the spotlight next week when around 50 mostly London-based fund managers, developers and other investment professionals get a whistle-stop tour of the city. The event, organised by Bristol property consultants Hartnell Taylor Cook, will highlight the major transactions that have occurred...
Real signs of recovery are emerging among West businesses, with 35% of small and medium-sized firms having more customers in the first quarter and a similar percentage finding lapsed customers are returning, a new survey shows. The latest figures in the Business Factors Index, produced by independent invoice finance...
Mandy Rose, the producer of award-winning digital media initiatives including the BBC’s ground-breaking Video Nation project has been appointed as director of UWE Bristol’s Digital Cultures Research Centre (DCRC). The centre, in Bristol’s Watershed, brings together art and design, computer science, cultural and media studies to explore how people...
