The takeover of Alterian, the loss-making Bristol-based marketing software specialist, has been completed by Maidenhead-based SDL, one of the world’s top three providers of language services, software development and global information management services. The move ends a long and drawn-out restructuring of Alterian, which has gone from highly-profitable and...
MITIE, the rapidly expanding strategic outsourcing and energy services group, says it is on track to continue its long record of sustainable, profitable growth. The Bristol-based group has won a number of major contracts over the past few months and in an interim management statement today it reported a strong order book...
Triodos Bank has released three properties on to the market as it gears up to move from Clifton to new city centre headquarters at WestOne, close to College Green and Bristol Cathedral. Property agents GVA says the most impressive is Brunel House, an imposing period building on The Promenade where...
Bristol City Council is seeking bids from major wind developers to build two wind turbines at Avonmouth. Planning approval was granted in January 2009 for turbines with a capacity of up to 3 MW each but final details will be subject to a formal tender process. They are expected to cost between...
Bristol-based factoring group Ultimate Finance has raised about £1m before expenses following a successful placing to strengthen its balance sheet and reduce its gearing ratio. The placing, which was over subscribed, involves the issue of 7,462,040 ordinary shares of 5p each at a price of 13.4p – a discount of...
Nick Thurston has been promoted to associate within property agent Knight Frank’s industrial team in Bristol. He joined in May 2010, having previously worked in commercial property agencies in Bristol and a development company in London. Knight Frank’s head of the Bristol industrial agency team, Russell Crofts, said: “The...
Singapore Airlines says the costs of inspecting and repairing cracks found on parts of the giant A380's wings will be borne by Airbus which designs the wings for all its commercial aircraft at Filton. Cracks were found on four Singapore Airlines planes inspected up until yesterday – and one...
Brightside Group, the Bristol-based insurance broker, today forecast record annual results. In a trading update the group reported a solid trading performance at the end of last year and said its annual results will be in line with the expectations set at the time of the E-Systems and eDevelopment...
Retail sales have slumped to their biggest annual fall in nearly three years as shoppers tightened their purse string after Christmas, according to the latest survey by the CBI. Its distributive trades survey for January showed the balance for reported sales volumes plunged to -22 – a sharp turnaround...
The Institute of Directors’ Bristol branch has used the Chinese New Year to promote its trade mission later this year to Bristol’s sister city Guangzhou. The IoD is organising the visit in conjunction with the Government’s export-boosting body UKTI. The two organisations are planning a series of events over...
Peter Main has been nominated as Bristol’s next Lord Mayor. He will succeed councillor Geoff Gollop at the end of his year of office in May. Councillor Main, 61, lives in Brislington and has served Brislington West for 14 years. He works as a senior benefits officer in Bath...
Proposals that could boost investment in the local economy are under review following talks between the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership and bankers from Barclays, Lloyds TSB, Santander UK and HSBC. LEP chair Colin Skellett said: “Small and medium-sized businesses across our region are united in their call for more to be done...
