Property consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle has expanded its Bristol team with 14 new starters in the past three months. University of the West of England graduates Caroline Cubbin (valuations) and Will Duckworth (industrial agency) have joined on two-year graduate programmes after successfully completing internships with the firm. Both will...
Business West, the business support group which runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce, has broadly welcomed the Heseltine review into UK competitiveness. The independent report, drawn up by former Tory Cabinet minister Lord Heseltine, makes 89 recommendations which aim to inject stability into the economy, create the conditions for growth...
Specialist software group SciSys, which has a major base in Bristol, has acquired German firm MakaluMedia Internet & Engineering Services, for €2.32m (£1.87m). MakaluMedia provides software engineering and consultancy to the European space industry. SciSys, which has its roots in the European space sector, said the acquisition will enhance...
Bristol Airport yesterday added the 13th European capital city to its destination board when low-cost airline Ryanair launched its service to Warsaw. The route is Ryanair’s seventh to Poland from Bristol and brings to 18 the total number of destinations served by the Irish budget operator from the airport....
Ultra-fast 4G mobile goes live this morning in Bristol – one of 11 UK cities to launch the service. Mobile operator Everything Everywhere – the recently-launched brand name for the combination of Bristol-based Orange and T-Mobile – is launching 4G ahead of its rivals whose services will go live...
Japanese energy and engineering company Hitachi is to build a nuclear power plant at Oldbury-on-Severn, South Gloucestershire, after taking over the stalled Horizon project. The new-generation power station, which will replace the existing nuclear plant on the site, will be one of between two or three built by 2025...
The Business Growth Show Bristol is back in the city this Wednesday with more than 150 business owners taking part and an impressive line up of speakers and networking opportunities. The event takes place at Future Inns Bristol, Bond Street South, again. Speakers include Mike Pagan, who pledges to...
International law firm Simmons & Simmons has opened its Bristol office – its first outside of the capital and a further boost to Bristol’s reputation as a thriving legal centre. The firm has taken 7,813 sq ft of space on the fifth floor of the recently-completed One Linear Park...
Bristol-based law firm TLT is sponsoring the Playable City Award, a prestigious international arts competition launched by the city’s art and media centre Watershed. The pioneering award is part of Watershed’s exploration into the relationship between art and technology. Applicants are being invited from across the world to create...
Cycling-mad staff at Bristol product design firm Crux have the use of new bikes to ride to work under a tax-efficient scheme introduced with the help of Bristol-based chartered accountancy firm Whyatt Pakeman Partners. All directors and employees of the agency, based at Paintworks, are keen cyclists and Crux’s...
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The BBC’s security correspondent Frank Gardner is to be guest speaker at this year’s CBI South West annual dinner next month. He replaces fellow BBC journalist and world affairs correspondent John Simpson, who was originally booked to make the keynote speech to around 500 of the region’s most senior...
Bristol-based law firm TLT has appointed health and safety specialist Duncan Reed as an associate. He joins from DAC Beachcroft where he was a senior solicitor in the firm’s safety, health and environment practice. Duncan, pictured, a solicitor advocate, has a broad range of health and safety experience but...
