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 –...
Bristol-based serviced apartment company SACO, which has grown rapidly in the UK since launching with just one venue 14 years ago, is opening its first overseas office in the US. The company has become one of the UK’s market-leading brands in the accommodation sector. Last year it opened its...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com Bristol’s most famous animation studio Aardman has ramped up its warning that it is considering moving jobs overseas unless the Government introduces tax breaks for its industry. The Oscar-winning company behind Wallace & Gromit and Shaun the Sheep is set to begin production on its...
Bristol-based student accommodation specialists Unite insists the decline in university applications won’t prevent it achieving healthy rental growth this year. The UK’s leading developer and manager of student accommodation said the 7.4% decline announced by clearing system UCAS for the 2012/13 academic year – the first in which higher...
Imperial Tobacco expects this year’s results to be in line with expectations. The global group, which is building a new multi-million pound head office in Bristol, said in a trading update ahead of yesterday's annual general meeting that while underlying stick (cigarette) volumes were down net revenues are up reflecting a...
Legal, financial and media firms helped lift Bristol's city centre office take up to 425,000 sq ft in 2011 – just 7% down on a year earlier. Overall take up in and out of town was 700,000 sq ft in what commentators admit was a challenging market. The figures...
Bristol firework company Skyburst, which stages major displays across the UK, has won its most prestigious contract yet – creating a spectacular display for a city in China to celebrate the end of the Chinese New Year holiday. The Mayor of Liuyang, the largest manufacturing base for fireworks in...
The Filton, Bristol, plant of missile firm MBDA is to benefit from a £483m contract won by the European firm to develop a next generation naval air defence system for the Royal Navy. The work, which will last around five years, will protect around 500 jobs split between Filton...
Bristol this week officially pitched itself against 17 other UK towns and cities to be the location for the Government’s new Green Investment Bank. As the deadline closed, business figures supporting the bid and many of the city’s MPs were in London to formally hand over Bristol’s submission to...
