The Mayor of Bristol is disputing a survey proclaiming Bristol as Britain’s traffic jam capital with the country’s slowest moving rush-hour vehicles. George Ferguson said the new figures released by sat-nav firm TomTom counted delivery vehicles which make several drop-offs during peak periods. These were counted as separate journeys...
Specialist industrial parts distributor Antifriction Components is investing more than £300,000 in its Bristol logistic and office facilities as it continues to build its national brand. The firm, with more than 90 staff across 12 UK sites, will is opening a 20,000 sq ft warehouse at Pioneer Park, St...
The South West is one of only two UK regions to record growth in the industrial property sector last year, according to the latest report by agent Jones Lang LaSalle. The research shows take-up of industrial and distribution floorspace increased by 2% across the region – much of it driven...
Accountancy firms BDO and PKF (UK) have completed their merger and are now operating as a single business under the BDO brand. The merged firm will invest in the region as part of its growth strategy and although PKF’s Bristol office will now close all its staff are being...
Bristol Airport has become the first in Britain to gain WorldHost Recognised Business status, in recognition of its commitment to welcoming visitors to the South West and Wales. WorldHost is a world-class customer service training programme that has already been used to train nearly 1m people worldwide, including tens...
The Restore Trust, the Bristol-based social enterprise helping the long-term unemployed and ex-offenders back into the workplace, is celebrating three years of success next week. Since its launch it has supported more than 800 clients across Bristol and Somerset, enabling them to achieve vocational qualifications in IT and construction, customer service...
The Bristol office of property agents Knight Frank has acted in the disposal of two South West industrial estates. The office advised London & Westcountry Estates – through an administrator – on the sale of Bridgwater’s Blake Mill Business Park to Parabola Capital for £1.2m. The 29,975 sq ft...
WellBoring, the West charity that drills boreholes for clean, secure water supplies at schools and communities in developing countries, is staging a fund-raising abseil down the Avon Gorge in Bristol later this month. The charity has teamed up with the Rotary Club of Bristol Breakfast Club to organise the...
Fed up with flip charts, PowerPoint and pie diagrams? Bristol Business News’s sister site Bath Business News is presenting an antidote this evening to business seminars as part of Bath Comedy Festival. This free and unique event is for anyone who has ever dozed off during a motivational seminar....
The freehold interest in two retail units on Bath Road, Brislington, have been sold for £5.03m by Lothbury Investment Management to Aberdeen Asset Management. The McDonalds and Pets at Home units are opposite the Brislington Retail Park, which is owned by another of Aberdeen’s funds. The McDonalds unit is...
Bristol-based income protection and health insurance specialist APRIL UK has appointed Ann Schuster as business development manager. Ann, pictured, has more than 23 years’ experience in the insurance industry having worked for Prudential as life and pensions sales manager, and the AA Insurance Services as area manager. She will be...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com Bristol Mayor George Ferguson is to bid for World Heritage status for the city’s iconic Clifton Suspension Bridge. He has set up a steering group to investigate applying for designation from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco). Mr Ferguson believes Isambard Kingdom...
West manufacturers are calling for significantly increased investment in roads, regional airports and port capacity as part of a radical overhaul of the approach to the UK’s transport infrastructure. The call is made on the back of a survey, published, by EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, showing the potential threat...
