Specialist software developer SciSys issued an upbeat trading statement ahead of today’s annual general meeting, suggesting it could soon hit the acquisition trail. The company, which has a major base in Bristol and its head office in Chippenham, says it opened the year with a comfortable order book of...
More than 100,000 passengers are expected to pass through Bristol Airport over the Jubilee Bank Holiday – from tomorrow to Tuesday – with tomorrow and Saturday set to be the busiest days. Airlines and tour operators are reporting hefty demand, with destinations within the eurozone as well as this summer’s...
Britain's largest organic dairy brand, North Somerset-based Yeo Valley, is hosting a special garden theatre event in June for families and schoolchildren at its Blagdon headquarters. The play entitled I, Peaseblossom and I, Caliban is a new co-production by Bristol Old Vic and Company of Angels in association with North Somerset charity...
Some 18 double charger units for electric vehicles will make their debut in Bristol’s public car parks and park-and-ride sites tomorrow. Known as Source Bristol, the network, which is compatible with Source London and Source Southeast networks, is part of the city’s bid to become European Green Capital by boosting the number of...
Bristol’s 116-bedroom Mercure Brigstow Hotel has been put up for sale with a guide price of £9m. The four-star hotel, on Welsh Back next to Bristol Bridge, has four meeting rooms and a break-out area to cater for the corporate market as well as a bar and riverside restaurant....
Stockbroker HB Markets has moved its Bristol base to the 10th floor of recently-refurbished Tower House, the 14-storey city centre office block in Fairfax Street. HB Markets, previously in the Froomsgate office building in nearby Rupert Street, has taken a five-year lease on 1,400 sq ft – the fourth...
Construction firm Willmott Dixon has relocated its Bristol office to Pill on the city’s outskirts having outgrown its Queen Square premises. The 4,000 sq ft base on the Eden Office Park will house the firm’s 50-plus employees – a major increase on the four staff Willmott Dixon had when...
Aerospace giant Rolls-Royce has secured contract extensions worth nearly £100m to provide ongoing support for engines on the RAF’s C-130 Hercules transport and VC10 tanker fleets. The firm is part of a consortium which also includes Marshall Aerospace of the UK and US giant Lockheed Martin which will provide...
Bedminster is get a share of £1.2m in Government funding under a pilot scheme recommended by retail guru Mary Portas to revitalise the UK’s high streets. The South Bristol suburb is one of 12 centres chosen as first-round winners. Among the ideas likely to be tried out in Bedminster...
Bristol tensile construction specialists Base Structures is helping create a unique walkway across the rooftop of London's 02 Arena which will give visitors spectacular views across the capital. The 'Up at The O2 experience', due to open by June 21, features a tensile cable and fabric walkway over the...
Bristol café entrepreneurs and chefs Mike Merelie and Evan Roberts have opened their second Whisk! café. . . in the unusual setting of a graveyard. The chefs launched their first café at the Knowle West Health Park just before Christmas and have now taken over the reins from volunteers...
Bristol-based serviced apartment company SACO, which now has properties in 31 UK locations, has opened a new collection of studio and one-bedroom accommodation in London, increasing the number of its own operated locations to 14 across the capital. Red Lion Court, just off Fleet Street, is the company's second...
Bristol-based car and motor cycle dealers Drive Motor Retail have managed to stay in the fast lane despite the recession, pushing sales past the £200m mark in what they describe as a “difficult” year, notching up increases in new, fleet and used vehicle sales. The company was set by Paul Manning...
