Rob Law, director of Magmatic and designer of Trunki, the children's ride-on suitcase, is hosting an exclusive event at Bristol’s Harvey Nichols to raise money for The Prince’s Trust. The Bristol-based entrepreneur, who won backing for his business on BBC1’s Dragon’s Den, will tell guests about his experiences in...
Colliers International has been appointed joint agents alongside DTZ for the refurbished Pithay building – one of Bristol city centre's biggest office blocks offering some of the largest open-plan floor spaces. The eight-storey building has around 52,000 sq ft of accommodation on offer over five floors including the third...
The £29m seafront improvements at Weston-super-Mare have won another award – this time from The Institute of Civil Engineers which has identified the improvements as the best major scheme in the South West. It follows hot on the heels of a commendation for the scheme from the Concrete Society and also...
More than 250 volunteers across the South West are trading their usual Friday at work for a day of voluntary work as part of Give & Gain Day, the UK’s only national day of employee volunteering run by business charity Business in the Community. Working in teams, they are contributing...
Fast-growing insurance broker Brightside has been named the 2011 West of England Business of the Year. The Bristol-based group, which was formed just 10 years ago with two staff, now employs more than 600 people in its head office and a string of call centres. Last year its turnover...
Oldbury in South Gloucestershire and Hinkley Point in Somerset are two of eight sites where the next generation of UK nuclear reactors will be built and operational by 2025, the government confirmed today. The plans still have to be debated and voted on in Parliament but the coalition is hoping...
A new approach to sustainable production for the creative industries is to be launched in Bristol next week. Think Future Now, which has its own website, www.thinkfuturenow.com, will offer a mix of events promoting collaboration with other sectors to develop new business and procurement models. The new approach will kick off...
European planemaker Airbus has won business worth $72.2bn for a total of 730 aircraft at the Paris Air Show – a record for any commercial aircraft manufacturer at any air show. The commitments comprise memorandums of understanding for 312 aircraft worth $28.2bn and firm orders for 418 aircraft worth around...
Colston Tower, the landmark 15-storey office building which dominates Bristol city centre, has been sold by the HSBC Pension Fund for £7.6m to two London-based property development companies. Development Securities, an investment and development company, will have a 75% stake with recently-formed Ellandi holding 25% of the building, which...
European planemaker Airbus has outsold American rival Boeing by a large margin in the first two days of the Paris Air Show, notching up orders worth around £16bn ($26bn), mainly of its revamped single-aisle A320neo whose new engines will deliver fuel savings of 15%. The tally of single aisle...
Business and Enterprise minister Mark Prisk has met his counterparts from France, Germany and Spain at the Paris Air Show to pitch for a bigger UK role in the next generation single-aisle airliner, the fuel-efficient Airbus A320neo. Mr Prisk has also met representatives from Boeing to discuss the expansion of US...
Thatchers Cider has signed a three-year deal with Bath Rugby as the club’s official cider partner. The North Somerset cider maker's logo will be displayed on Bath team jerseys and there will be branding at the Recreation Ground including the re-naming of the north stand as the Thatchers Stand. Thatchers...
The £1bn plan to electrify the rail route between Bristol and London could create 200 jobs at a new rail maintenance depot in Stoke Gifford, close to Bristol Parkway Station. Hitachi Rail Europe is reported to be in talks with South Gloucestershire Council about using land owned by...
