Holidaymakers are being charged too much for their foreign currency because of complex charges and misleading information, according to watchdog group Consumer Focus. UK travellers exchange around £27bn each year and Consumer Focus questions whether much of the estimated £1bn charged in fees is warranted. It has submitted a...
Za Za Bazaar, the innovative banquet restaurant set to open on Bristol’s Harbourside this autumn, is searching for 15 chefs who are experts in cuisines spanning American and Mexican to Italian, Turkish and Lebanese as part of its recruitment drive. Some 20 chefs have already been recruited but 15...
Recent changes in employment legislation will be explained at a free seminar taking place next Tuesday. The event is hosted by Mangotsfield-based chartered accountancy firm Copson Grandfield and among the speakers will be Gregg Latcham partner John Dalby, who heads the firm’s corporate and commercial and employment departments. Solicitor Colin...
Bristol's latest hotel – a 151-bedroom Travelodge in Mitchells Lane, Redcliffe – is about to open for business. The six-storey hotel has a bar, 90-cover café and a 29-space car park in the basement. It also has a ground-floor commercial unit with planning consent for commercial, retail and leisure...
Company owners, managers and directors keen to grow their businesses over the next year, particularly through exports, are being invited to a half-day seminar tomorrow. Called Driving your Business Forward through Growth, Innovation and Internationalisation, the event is staged by Business Link, Enterprise Europe Network and UK Trade and...
Sherlock actor Martin Freeman is calling on Bristol businesses to hunt out hilarious hats and wear them on November 4 to raise funds for St Mungo’s, the national charity which operates a centre in Jamaica St providing healthcare advice and support for homeless people. Martin is joined by TV...
The Bristol branch of the Co-op bank has provided a six-figure loan to the management buy out team at e-DBA, the UK’s leading Oracle Support specialist providing cloud services and other products. Chris Mapp, business development manager at the Co-op’s Bristol Corporate Banking Centre said e-DBA, which has offices...
Central Park, a new 640-acre warehouse and distribution park at Severnside, has attracted its first pre-let. CHEP UK has signed up for a new pallet distribution facility of 50,000 sq ft on a 15-year lease with annualised rent increases in line with RPI, according to property consultants GVA. Central...
Hot on the heels of its success in sealing business worth at least £80m with drinks giant Diageo and winning a contract with Essex County Council, outsourcing and energy services specialist MITIE ended a week of spectacular new business wins with a four-year minor works and maintenance contract with...
Brightside Group, the Bristol-based insurance broker, said today it had boosted first half pre-tax profits by 80% on turnover up 50%. Profits were up from £4m to £7.2m while turnover raced ahead from £26.6m to £39.9m in the six months to June 30. Policy sales grew 98% from...
An online game that takes contemporary art out of the gallery and into the world of interactive gaming has been produced by Thought Den, an increasingly successful Bristol creative digital agency. The agency, whose work includes a game called Fire Kills for the Central Office of Information and another...
Top 20 accountancy firm Saffery Champness has added seven recruits to its Clifton offices to work in departments across the firm from private wealth and landed estates to business advisory services. The seven include Alexandra Bray (not pictured), an Oxford University graduate, as a new audit senior, while Katie...
Outsourcing services specialist MITIE has won a contract worth at least £80m with Diageo, the world’s leading premium drinks business. Bristol-based MITIE will supply Diageo with integrated facilities management (FM) and hospitality services throughout its entire UK and Irish property portfolio in what it described as a transformational contract....
