West-based global luxury fashion brand Mulberry – famous for its iconic handbags – is planning a major assault on the Japanese market and is to sell its products in Australia and Vietnam for the first time. The group, based at Chilcompton, near Radstock, today said it is in advanced...
A record 600,000 passengers have used Bristol Airport’s Flyer bus over the past year – ten times the number achieved during its first year of operation in the late 1990s. The service, run by First in partnership with Bristol Airport, operates between Clifton, the City Centre, Temple Meads station...
Eastern Airways has increased flights from Bristol Airport to Aberdeen and Leeds-Bradford from two to three each weekday to meet rising demand. Eastern Airways’ commercial director Kay Ryan said: “Our conveniently timed services are by far the quickest way to get to Yorkshire and north east Scotland and save...
Express delivery company City Link has expanded its operations in the West with the acquisition of a new regional distribution centre near Bristol. The parcels company has taken the 66,753 sq ft building from owners Prudential and Capital Shopping Centres on a 10-year lease, at an undisclosed rent. Employees...
Julian Alexander has joined Santander Corporate Banking as regional director from Barclays, where he was the head of real estate in the Midlands with responsibility for the region’s main property accounts. In his new role, Julian will be based at Santander’s corporate business centre in Bristol, leading the bank’s...
MITIE has rounded off a month in which it had already won business worth more than £1bn with a further two contracts worth between £200m and £455m. The Bristol-based strategic outsourcing and energy services company has been awarded by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) the total facilities management contracts for Her...
The market sent shares in database marketing software group Alterian down nearly 12% at one stage this morning following an update to mark the arrival of its new CEO, Heath Davies, earlier this month. Bristol-based Alterian, which recorded a pre-tax loss of £4.29m in April and has since replaced both its...
Bid rumours are once again swirling around Bristol-based Imperial Tobacco – this time suggesting it could be in line for a break-up approach. Shares in the group, the region’s biggest company by turnover, edged forward 9p to 2,170p this morning in the wake of speculation that it could be...
Bristol-based Unite, the UK's leading developer and manager of student accommodation, has announced the planned departure of its chief operating officer John Tonkiss as part of what it describes as “operational efficiencies and directorate changes”. The group says this, together with changes relating “mainly to planned headcount reduction in...
Former Alterian chairman Keith Hammill has resigned from its board, hopefully drawing a line under what has been nightmarish phase for the Bristol-based marketing software group. Mr Hammill, pictured, delayed his retirement earlier this year to help pilot the company through a crisis that culminated in April with...
MITIE, the Bristol-based strategic outsourcing and energy services company, has crowned an exceptional month with an agreement that takes the total value of deals in September to more than £1bn. It has successfully retained and expanded a contract to provide integrated facilities management (FM) and energy services to the Cumbrian...
Defence giant BAE Systems is to axe 74 jobs in Bristol as part of the near-3,000 redundancies it has announced. The world’s second biggest defence company, BAE employs 620 at Filton, which is the headquarters of its advanced research and development division. Filton shares with a site in Chelmsford,...
Young Bristol entrepreneur Jack Gibbon has won £1,000 and a place in the next round of the Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Awards programme for his nomadic gallery, Antlers. Jack, 25, launched Antlers late last year – it makes ingenious use of vacant properties in prime locations as temporary art...
