Executive recruitment firm Digby Bristow Senior Appointments, a division of established Bristol recruitment agency Lucy Bristow, has been shortlisted for Best Regional Agency at the prestigious 2012 Marketing & Advertising Recruitment Awards (MARAs). The achievement comes barely a year after the division was launched in memory of founder and...
The freehold of a large office building at Bristol’s Harbourside has been sold for £13m in an indication, according to its developer Crest Nicholson, of the emergence of the area as Bristol’s prime financial centre. The 50,000 sq ft building, 2 College Square, which has a BREEAM ‘excellent’ rating,...
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Corporate partners are being urged to back Bristol’s pioneering annual Afrika Eye film festival as it prepares to return for its seventh year. The unique festival, which takes place at Watershed over the weekend of November 9-11, will this year have an Afro-Caribbean theme as it celebrates the 50th anniversary of...
Bristol’s first festival of female entrepreneurship, held earlier this week, has been declared a resounding success – and could now become an annual event. Around 750 women attended Women Outside the Box, sponsored by FreeAgent accounting software, in the M Shed and Arnolfini. Visitors learnt how to build a...
UK defence giant BAE Systems could be forced to look for a strategic partner in the US following the collapse of its mega-merger talks with Airbus owner EADS this week, analysts believe. That deal would have created a global aerospace and defence group with interests ranging from commercial airliners,...
Motor dealer Dick Lovett has opened a dedicated BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna motorcycle dealership for Bristol. The showpiece building, behind the firm’s Bristol BMW car showroom at Cribbs Causeway, is the first in the UK to feature BMW Motorrad’s latest interior showroom concept, which utilises the latest technology to...
Outstanding business supporters of the arts in the South West are to be recognised through a new scheme launched by Arts & Business (A&B), the organisation that brings together the cultural and corporate worlds. The Business Cultural Champions programme – a sister initiative of A&B’s successful Cultural Champions scheme – will publicly...
Bristol-based asset management firm Hargreaves Lansdown’s assets under administration soared again in the three months to the end of September, up by £2.2bn to a record £28.5bn. Revenue of £68.7m was also a record, up 20% on the first quarter of last year. The company, which has continued to...
Chancellor George Osborne’s plan for a new employment contract, under which staff would relinquish workplace rights in return for tax-free shares, could lead to expensive and damaging legal disputes, Bristol employment lawyer Kevin Jones is warning. The scheme was unveiled by Mr Osborne to much support at this week’s...
Nearly three-quarters of Bristol’s secondary schools have signed up to take part in the 2012 RSG Bristol Young Student of the Year Awards, a practical competition that pairs students with businesses to create employment opportunities across the city. More than 100 students from the 16 participating schools attended the...
A campaign to encourage Bristol businesses to talk to each other more, make contacts and discuss business issues via social media has been launched today. The project, called #getbristoltalking, is the brainchild of Bristol Chamber of Commerce, part of business advice and services group Business West, which believes it...
Aerospace and defence giants BAE Systems of the UK and Airbus’s European parent EADS this afternoon called off their planned mega-merger. The deal would have given around 6,000 West engineers a new employer but this afternoon directors of the two huge scrapped the merger after weeks of discussions ahead...
