Renishaw, the innovative advanced engineering group, and Everything Environmental, the ethical promotional gift company, have been shortlisted in this year’s National Business Awards. Wotton-under-Edge-based Renishaw, where annual pre-tax profits recently soared by 203% to £80.4m, is among firms in the mid-cap category, sponsored by accountants and business advisers Grant...
Barclays Corporate in Bristol has led a seven-bank, multi-million pound refinancing agreement to support international sterilisation services group Synergy Health's continued global expansion. Swindon-based Synergy, which employs more than 4,000 people worldwide and specialises in the medical devices and healthcare sectors, has expanded rapidly in recent years through a...
Whyatt Pakeman Partners, an independent firm of Bristol-based chartered accountants, has appointed Richard Bunker as a partner following the merger of his own practice with Whyatt Pakeman Partners. Richard brings with him many years of valuable experience as a tax specialist working with companies, professional practices, owner-managed businesses, farmers...
Bishop Fleming, the Bristol-based accountants with a string of offices across the South West, is to merge with Midlands-based Rabjohns to create a firm that straddles the M5 corridor from Cornwall to Worcester. The enlarged firm will have 21 partners and 230 staff. Bishop Fleming, by far the larger...
Bristol law firm Burges Salmon has recruited Kari McCormick, previously a litigation partner at Clifford Chance, who brings with her more than 15 years’ experience in dispute resolution, including complex multi-party litigation for insurance companies, banks and corporate entities. Kari joins more than 80 lawyers in the firm’s successful disputes and litigation...
Property consultancy GVA, which has a regional office in Bristol, has been ranked as the largest supplier of services to the public sector with a 44% market share. The figure, for 2010/11, has been released by the Government Procurement Service (formally Buying Solutions). GVA’s Bristol office provides a range...
Traders on eBay are being targeted for tax evasion by HM Revenue & Customs, warn PKF accountants and business advisers. “Targeting traders on e-marketplaces such as eBay is unlikely to contribute much directly to HMRC’s target of collecting additional tax of £7bn each year by 2014/15,” said Tony Moorby, director...
Alan Bailey, the chair of Low Carbon South West, the UK’s largest environmental business trade association, has received an Honorary Degree of Master of Science from the University of the West of England (UWE) in recognition of his significant contribution to the development of a low-carbon economy in the...
Pressure was mounting on Chancellor George Osborne and the Bank of England today to stimulate growth after the latest gloomy economic reports, this time from the manufacturing sector and the CBI. Manufacturing shrank last month for the first time since the country was in the depth of recession two...
Orders for Airbus aircraft are expected to reach a record-breaking 1,000 this year as airlines snap up its new, fuel efficient jet. But soaring demand is causing its own problem as suppliers struggle to keep up with workloads, parent company EADS has warned. Airbus booked orders for 644 last...
Bristol’s office market will be the first of any major UK city to recover, with an upturn in demand expected this year and an increase in rents for premium space. However, a two-tier market is emerging with a large overhang of hard-to-fill secondary property which will keep overall rents...
Imperial Tobacco has failed in its bid to get the Supreme Court to hear an appeal against the ban on cigarette vending machines. The Bristol-based group, the world's fourth-largest cigarette company, had hoped the court would overturn the ban, which comes into effect on October 1. The legilsation is...
The University of the West of England has made Ruby McGregor-Smith, the chief executive of outsourcing giant MITIE, an honorary Doctor of Business Administration. The honour is in recognition of her significant national and local contribution to business through the distinctive culture she has created within Bristol-based MITIE. Since joining the...
