Food travel experts SSP are investing more than £150,000 in upgrading bars and restaurants at Bristol Airport to improve ambience, accessibility and comfort for passengers. The terminal’s table service restaurant Dexters will be first to undergo a makeover, with new furniture and lighting. Among the improvements will be a...
Shareholders in Wessex Exploration, the Bristol-based hydrocarbon prospecting company which floated on AIM a year ago, look set to share in a £72m bonanza following a possible cash offer from French oil giant Total for the entire issued and to-be-issued share capital at a price of 10p per ordinary share....
Every best-selling children's ride-on Trunki suitcase sold in Britain will be designed in Bristol and made in England by the end of this year. Magmatic, the Bristol company set up by Trunki creator Rob Law, is bringing home its production from China to the UK from mid-April. Fittingly the...
Measurement and medical device manufacturer Renishaw is looking to recruit a further 120 staff for its five Gloucestershire sites – primarily skilled people with engineering and manufacturing experience in mechanical, software, electronics and production engineering. There are also multiple opportunities for CNC setter/operators as well as vacancies for support...
UWE InnovEnterS are hosting a drinks and networking this evening tomorrow for anyone interested in start-ups and entrepreneurship. The event will be a fantastic opportunity to meet other students, businesspeople and entrepreneurs from around Bristol. Anyone can attend, whether they are looking for a start-up partner, people to share...
Wednesday’s Budget and its impact on West businesses and individuals will be on the menu at the latest Meet the Press breakfast at luxury hotel Ston Easton Park, which takes place the following day. The series of events are aimed at business leaders and owners with guest speakers Robert...
Furious Guy Kingston, chairman of the Bristol branch of the Federation of Small Businesses, is calling for businesses to boycott a city council parking survey in protest at plans to introduce a tax on workplace parking to help bridge a funding gap for three rapid transit schemes. The survey...
Some 2.4m sq ft of industrial space was sold or let in the South West industrial and logistics market last year with Bristol remaining a key location and showing promising signs for 2012, according to new figures from the Industrial Agents Society (IAS) Western Branch. Other figures from the...
Work has begun on an Airbus Aerospace Business Park at Filton – a multi-million pound state-of-the-art engineering and technology campus scheduled for completion next year. Speaking at a ceremony to mark the start of construction, Mark Barclay, senior vice president of the Airbus Wings and Pylons Centre of Excellence...
The first roots of a new community were put in place at Finzels Reach, Bristol at a supper event organised by Knightstone Housing Association, one of the South West’s biggest providers of affordable and supported housing. Located on the site of the old Courage brewery, Finzels Reach is a mixed-use development adjacent...
Fast-growing insurance broker Brightside Group has bought the corporate headquarters it moved into five years ago – the former Aust motorway services area overlooking the first Severn Bridge. The deal, involving an undisclosed sum, comprises the 14-acre site and the 40,000 sq ft former motorway service area adjacent to the M48 – formerly the...
Bristol City Council has agreed to make a £400,000 bridging loan to Gloucestershire County Cricket Club in what some will see as a last-ditch attempt to hang on to cricket at the County Ground in Ashley Down. The secured loan will be repaid regardless of whether the cricket club...
Housing providers in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset have won new Government funding to bring empty homes back into use. Backed by their unitary authorities, the Bristol Community Housing Foundation, Jephson Housing Association and Alliance Homes, will bring 52 properties back into use over the next three years....
