Commercial property opportunities in the West are to be showcased to national and international investors and developers in London this week. The event is being staged by property firm Jones Lang LaSalle, which has offices in Bristol and Bath, to attract more inward investment into the region. Senior directors...
Specialist commercial finance broker Christie Finance, which has an office in Bristol, has released £70m of funding for the healthcare, hospitality and retail sectors. Some £50m is available exclusively for clients seeking to invest in the care home, pharmacy and children’s day nursery sectors with £20m for clients in...
HSBC has made a number of key appointments to its Bristol and Bath Commercial Centre, bringing in Nick Stork and Chris Jones as area commercial director and deputy area commercial director respectively. The team has also been bolstered by Paul Williams’ appointment as senior international commercial manager and Lee...
Business confidence in the region has rebounded strongly in the past three months, according to an upbeat report published today. The latest ICAEW/Grant Thornton UK Business Confidence Monitor (BCM) soared from a low of minus18.4 to plus16.6 in the second quarter of this year. The uplift follows a steadily...
The 21st anniversary of the twinning between Bristol and Beira in Mozambique is marked by Sun, Sea and Solidarity, a book by local journalist Susie Weldon which highlights the struggles and successes of the only official link between UK and Mozambican cities. The book, which explores the impact of...
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Bristol Airport passengers can now pause for a pint of a new beer brewed just two miles from the end of the runway and made entirely from West Country ingredients. Butcombe Brewery, based at Wrington, have teamed up with Cotswold farmer and TV presenter Adam Henson to produce...
A barbershop better resembling a luxury bachelor pad has opened in Bristol city Centre to inject 21st century men’s hairdressing into Bristol City Centre. Jacks of London, which calls itself the male salon of the future, launched today in Penn St, offering the ultimate barbering experience where customers do...
Professional recruitment specialists Alexander Daniels shunned the usual industry speaker or economic commentator when they officially opened their Bristol office last night. Instead they give guests, drawn mainly from the city's accountancy firms, the chance to hear from Nick Leeson – the rogue trader who brought down Britain's oldest...
Bristol business owners are being given the unusual opportunity to ‘speed date with a difference’ next week to help grow their companies despite the flagging economy. The city’s first Business Growth Show will include a seed networking feature, enabling owner-managers and entrepreneurs to meet and begin new business relationships...
Dragon’s Den star Theo Paphitis plans to open a branch of his boutique lingerie brand Boux Avenue in Bristol’s Cabot Circus shopping centre, he told Bristol Business News today. The serial entrepreneur personally launched the chain’s 12th outlet this afternoon in Bath and said he was on target to at least...
Bristol law firm Osborne Clarke has further boosted its reputation for international fund work after advising Swedish real estate private equity firm Niam on the close of its €719m (£577m) Niam Nordic V fund – the largest Nordic opportunistic property fund measured by total equity commitments. The investors include...
Entrepreneurs Catrin and Simon Macdonnell, the husband-and-wife team behind Clifton’s Papadeli delicatessen and café, will share their experiences of starting up and growing a business at a seminar in Bristol staged by Barclays Bank. The couple, who launched Papadeli more than 10 years ago, will explain how inspiration, passion...
