Bristol's Merchant Venturers have made a £30,000 grant to an innovative Forces Self Build Scheme taking shape in West Street, Bedminster. The Merchants’ gift will go towards building and construction training to help 12 ex-servicemen to build their own homes – as well as ensuring the presence of a skilled workman on...
Claire McRea has joined the Bristol office of accountants and business advisers Grant Thornton as a manager in its tax team. Claire, who grew up in Bristol and has a degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of the West of England, joins from Target Chartered Accountants in...
Bristol-based Imperial Tobacco, the South West’s largest business by turnover, overcame tough conditions in some of its markets to achieve a 3.7% increase in total annual revenues to £29.2bn with adjusted operating profit up from £2,53bn to £3.1bn, a rise of 1.2%. Profits before tax rose from £2.11bn to £2.15bn, some way short...
Bristol Zoo Gardens has appointed Owain Cassidy as its new head of marketing, public relations and development. Owain, who was previously the head of marketing and communications for a children’s charity in Wales called Ty Hafan, has worked in the marketing sector for nine years. He said: “Bristol Zoo...
DTZ’s Bristol project and building consultancy team is providing professional building surveying services for the £35m regeneration of Dolphin Square Shopping Centre in Weston-super-Mare. The 200,000 sq ft scheme is to be transformed into a complex including an eight-screen cinema, 112-bed Premier Inn hotel, an indoor bowling alley and eight...
A Bristol-based heritage property specialist is calling for action to ensure the future of redundant churches, schools and theatre buildings in the South West – or the region could lose some of its most interesting buildings. James Edwards, a town planner with Colliers International said: “There is a real risk...
Wessex Exploration, the Bristol-based hydrocarbon prospecting company, has signed an assurance agreement for a production-sharing contract that secures an area off the coast of the Western Sahara known as the Imlili Block. The deal, made with joint venture partners Tower Resources, is somewhat speculative since it has been made with...
SciSys, the Chippenham firm, which also has offices in Bristol, looks set to gain significant business from the £1bn British Army Warrior Armoured Fighting Vehicle upgrade programme announced last week by Prime Minister David Cameron during a visit to Lockheed Martin UK. As a member of the Warrior Transformation Team with...
Developer HDG Mansur has expressed "huge relief" over the successful renegotiation of its Section 106 agreement with Bristol City Council on the £255m regeneration of Finzels Reach, the high-profile former Courage Brewery site. The moves means the company, which is struggling to make the scheme viable, has been freed...
Oil industry veteran David Bramhill has summarised in typical style what he described as significant progress for Wessex Exploration, the Bristol-based hydrocarbon exploration company. He said in his chairman's annual statement for the year to June 30: "There is no in-between status in the speculative world of oil exploration...
From Bristol247 A major new marketing initiative that could bring hundreds of new jobs into former Government offices in Bristol city centre has been launched. Property experts are aiming to attract businesses to the Pithay building by promoting its proximity to Cabot Circus and Bristol’s most fashionable stores. Property specialists Colliers...
SciSys executive chairman and founder Mike Love is to step back from day-to-day control of the Chippenham-based hi-tech company to become non executive chairman. The firm, which also has operations in Brislington, Bristol, said in a statement today that he will, however, remain a director and significant shareholder in the...
