Luxury hotel Ston Easton Park launches its series of breakfast events for business leaders and owners tomorrow with an invitation to Meet the Press. Robert Buckland, editor of Bristol Business News and its sister titles Bath Business News and Swindon Business News, and Philip Welch, editor of Mid Somerset...
Multi-millionaire businessman and Bristol City Football Club owner Steve Lansdown is today named as the majority shareholder of Bristol Rugby Club. Confirmation of the involvement of Mr Lansdown, who founded highly-successful Bristol financial advisers and brokers Hargreaves Lansdown, came in a statement today from the rugby club. Chairman Chris...
Bristol is to get its own currency – the Bristol Pound – in May under a scheme to be launched by a group of independent traders with the backing of the council and the city’s major credit union. The Bristol Pound aims to boost the city economy by...
What is a local currency? Essentially money that is used across a particular locality or region. The Bristol Pound will be spent like sterling and is backed pound-for-pound by sterling deposits. However it is different to sterling in that the money will typically be accepted only within the region...
The Guild of British Coach Operators has awarded West coach operator Bakers Dolphin a mark of 100% in an audit of quality standards and excellence. The guild carries out an independent rigorous 44-point check on coach operators every two years and will only allow those who reach the highest standards...
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...
