The economic slowdown is taking its toll on Bristol's hotels with the number of guests declining despite price cuts. Room occupancy rates fell by 6.8% to 73% during November even though the average room rate declined by 1.2% to £69.73 against a year earlier. This meant that year-to-year room...
David Powell has been re-elected as head of law firm Osborne Clarke’s Bristol office and will serve a second three-year term. A lawyer in the city for over 30 years, David is well-known as a passionate supporter of the region’s business community. He specialises in advising residential developers and...
Specialist PR firm bClear Communications is expanding with the appointment of Jayne West, previously communications manager at Bristol construction group Cowlin. Jayne joins Bristol-based bClear five months after former Cowlin managing director Neil Sherreard became a director. bClear specialises in PR and communications for construction, property and finance firms....
Ray Smyth of Swindon-based The IPstore says, “Business Continuity is the result of properly planned, expertly executed IT… It is 100% proactive; the rest is just blind panic…” For an organisation using Information Technology (IT) as a routine part of its day-to-day work, the most modest of problems can...
Information and Communications Technology (IT/ICT) is an essential asset to businesses – but all too often it fails to produce a measurable business advantage. Beginning in Swindon Business News next month, experienced IT professional and journalist Ray Smyth of Swindon-based The IPstore will offer regular insight and leadership through...
Bristol-based chemicals and gasses distributor A-Gas International has again made it into a league table of Britain’s fast-growing private businesses. The firm appears at number 56 in the Sunday Times Deloitte Buyout Track 100 ranking of Britain’s 100 private equity backed companies with the fastest-growing profits over the last two years....
Bristol law firm Temple Bright is on course to double in size in its second year, building on a very strong first 12 months during which it took revenues well above £1m. The firm has also added three new partners in recent weeks, taking the total to 11, as...
Swiss airline Helvetic Airways is to continue its Bristol-Zurich flights into the summer following the success of the service so far. The route was launched last December 5 with three flights a week each way and has proved popular with tourists and business travellers in both directions. From March...
Bristol events company SXS has won the contract to produce a high-profile sailing event that will run in parallel with the Olympics. Weymouth Bayside Festival, between July 27 and August 12, is expected to attract more than 200,000 visitors. It takes place at the same time as the Olympic...
Prime Minister David Cameron is to urge India to reconsider its decision to choose France's Dassault Rafale over the Eurofighter Typhoon as preferred bidder for a $15bn contract for 126 warplanes. His chances of changing their minds look limited and although there are no short-term job loss worries relating...
A Manufacturing Summit, hosted by Business Secretary Vince Cable and Business Minister Mark Prisk, is to be held at Bristol and Bath Science Park on February 23. It will bring together Government and key industry leaders to discuss and debate progress, upcoming challenges and the next steps required to put manufacturing...
Bristol-based employment specialist the HR Dept has celebrated nine years in business by moving to new offices to accommodate its growing team. The new office, on the Henfield Business Park in Westerleigh, South Gloucestershire, will house the Bristol team, which has grown from seven to 10 people in...
Stalled development schemes in Bristol and Weston-super-Mare are to go ahead thanks to kick-start grants from the Homes and Communities Agency as part of the Government’s £420m Get Britain Building programme. Phase 1 of a mixed-use development on Wapping Wharf – the last significant site on Bristol Harbourside –...
