Bristol-based ethical food business Essential Trading, one of the UK’s largest and most successful worker co-operatives, has marked its 40th year in business by securing a £100,000 investment to install a solar energy system. It brought in North Somerset experts Solarsense to fit the PV system at its Fishponds...
Bristol law firm Burges Salmon has advised on a major drinks industry share acquisition involving Coca-Cola, Heineken and Macedonia’s largest beer and soft drinks company. The €79.1m deal involved the Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company and Heineken buying 41.2% of the minority shares in Pivara Skopje, their joint venture beverage...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com Almost half of Bristol’s office workers have signed up to work during the Christmas break this year with 26% having to travel to the office to do so. This is despite nearly a third believing that very little work will actually be achieved. Even those...
SciSys, the specialist supplier of bespoke software systems, IT based solutions and support services, has been awarded a £2.5m contract to provide a Future Deployable GEOINT (FDG) System. The business has come from Lockheed Martin UK Integrated Systems & Solutions which is the prime contractor for FDG to the UK's Ministry...
Airbus, which delivered its 7,000th airliner earlier this month, looks set to end 2011 with 1,600 orders pushing US rival Boeing to its lowest market share in 40 years. The European planemaker, whose airliner wings are designed and part-built in Filton, is expected to sell more aircraft than Boeing for...
The corporate banking teams at Barclays and HSBC in Bristol have jointly refinanced social housing repair and maintenance group Mears with a five-year, £120m revolving credit facility. Gloucester-based Mears will use the facility for general corporate purposes, including re-financing the previous facility due to mature in June 2013, as...
Luxury handbag maker Mulberry has headhunted the managing director of Hermès France, Bruno Guillon, to be its next chief executive. Mr Guillon will work with current chief executive and chairman Godfrey Davis for three months to ensure a smooth transition before taking over on March 1. Mr Davis will...
More than a quarter of households across Bristol and the West have suffered a fall in their income over the past three months, forcing them to cut back on unnecessary spending, new research shows. At the same time many people in work and earning the same are worried about...
The high street got an unexpected pre-Christmas boost today with new figures showing sales volumes in early December grew for the first time in seven months. However, shop takings were still sales poor for the time of year and the CBI, which conducted the research behind today’s survey, said...
Bristol-based serviced apartment company SACO has opened its 30th location in the UK, tripled its number of sites in London to 13, and appointed its 150th employee. Trinity Tower in Canary Wharf is the company's latest development. It features 50 one, two and three bedroom serviced apartments while also...
The true cost of Christmas parties in the workplace could land employers with a sobering bill from HM Revenue & Customs in the New Year. The warning comes from Caroline Harwood, head of employer solutions at Grant Thornton in Bristol, who points out that for employers who want to reward hard-working...
Nearly half a ton of food is being delivered to Caring at Christmas, the Bristol charity that runs a shelter for the homeless or vulnerably housed over the Christmas period. The collection, donated by staff, clients and business contacts of property adviser GVA, was made in just under week. GVA's...
Major retailers are scouring the region for large storage and distribution warehouses capable of supporting the dramatic rise in online shopping, according to a leading commercial property specialist. It follows stronger-than-expected consumer spending driven by record-breaking online shopping. Tim Davies (pictured), head of Colliers International in Bristol, said: “Dramatically...
