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...
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...
