Bristol-based MITIE has taken over energy and carbon management specialist Utilyx in a deal worth up to £16.2m. Utilyx delivers strategic planning, procurement and risk management to a range of major UK energy users and its acquisition will complement and enhance MITIE's existing CarbonCare energy services business which already accounts for...
Liz McCloskey is accountancy and business advice firm Grant Thornton’s new business development manager in its Bristol office. She joins from leading business process outsourcing company Capita Group, where she worked in the group sales team, managing the preparation of large complex tenders to potential clients. An economics...
At-Bristol, the city's science-based visitor attraction, has appointed Phil Winfield as its new chief executive, taking over from Dr Goéry Delacôte who has been in the job since September 2005. Mr Winfield, currently director at INTECH Science Centre & Planetarium in Winchester, joins in April. He is credited with...
Get Mentoring, a national initiative to recruit and train thousands of business mentors from the UK’s small, medium and micro business community, is tomorrow staging a free introduction to enterprise mentoring training workshop near Bristol. The half-day session run by the IoEE (Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship) is designed...
Efforts to ease Bristol’s notorious transport problems are among the priority areas in Bristol City Council’s £50m spending strategy announced this week. The council is boosting its spending by £50m on extra school places and elderly care as well as transport improvements – with business having to share less...
Bristol PR and events agency Brandon Hill Communications has been granted ISO 14001 in recognition of its ethical standards, including its commitment to recycling, fuel-efficient company cars and a green supply chain. The award follows Clifton-based Brandon Hill’s successful assessment by the UKAS accredited certification body, ISOQAR. ISO 14001...
Flybe, Europe's largest regional airline, has renewed its contract for cloud-based SafeyNet safety reporting and management services with north Bristol-based Vistair. It has also extended the contract to include Vistair’s electronic manuals service, iPad service, and Touch Notices system. Vistair’s cloud-based services will replace in-house operations at Flybe which operates 67 Bombardier...
A remarkable story lies behind this week’s OBE for Mary Mead, founder of the spectacularly successful Yeo Valley organic food group. The New Year’s honour recognises her services to sustainable dairy farming and achievement in helping to build Britain’s biggest organic dairy business – but that barely scratches the surface of the...
SciSys founder Mike Love has formally stepped back from day-to-day control of specialist software company to become its non-executive chairman. The move was flagged up at the end of October and is part of a boardroom shake-up at SciSys, a leading developer of information and communications technology services, e-business and...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com Bristol technology firm Test and Verification Solutions (TVS) is expanding into the Asia-Pacific region with the opening of an office in India and connections with China and Taiwan. The move will allow the firm to sell its software testing and hardware verification products and services...
Bristol law firm Clarke Willmott has renewed its sponsorship agreement with Gloucestershire Cricket in a deal that will continue to features its branding on players’ shirt collars for LV= County Championship and Clydesdale Bank 40 matches next season. Head of Clarke Willmott’s Bristol office Kevin Jones, who also leads its sports...
Bristol-based tool hire firm Brandon Hire has acquired surveying and construction specialist Phoenix Surveying Equipment. Under the pre-Christmas deal Phoenix, which hires, sells and repairs surveying equipment to customers across the country, will continue as a separately-branded business. The company, founded in 1977, has its head office in Yate...
Jelf Employee Benefits, part of the Yate-based Jelf Group, has been shortlisted for three awards in the Corporate Adviser Awards for 2012. The firm is battling it out in the Healthcare Adviser of the Year, Group Risk Adviser of the Year, and Best Cashplan Solution categories of the awards, which...
