Accountants and business advisers BDO are holding a free seminar in Bristol next Tuesday for family lawyers dealing with the protection and preservation of their clients’ assets. The seminar, at the Mercure Bristol Holland House Hotel, will consider options available to clients and discuss how to plan a cost-effective...
Bristol and Bath are working together for the first time to raise their international profile at MIPIM, Europe’s largest property fair taking place in Cannes next week. The West of England’s four local authorities will run a large stand to showcase the area as a world-class location for creativity...
South West chairman of the Institute of Directors (IoD) Gerry Jones has urged Chancellor George Osborne to reform Air Passenger Duty (APD) in this month’s Budget to help regional airports like Bristol. He called on the Treasury to either freeze the rate of duty or introduce two-tier pricing and...
Destination Bristol and Bristol Airport will be promoting the region to thousands of potential American visitors at the New York Times Travel Show this week. The influential exhibition, organised by the world-renowned New York Times newspaper, is acknowledged as one of the leading consumer and travel trade shows in...
Finance from two banks in Bristol is to help a Cornish brewery develop new products and invest in its pub estate. Independent brewery St Austell secured the £40m refinancing package the Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays. RBS’ Bristol corporate banking team supplied a £10m term loan as well...
Banking giant HSBC has become the latest member of The UK China Business Consortium, a South West-based group promoting British exports to China and supporting Chinese companies looking to invest in the UK. The Consortium was set up last year by Bristol-based trademark and IP specialists Haseltine Lake, Swindon...
A 61-ft dragon balloon will take to the skies over Bristol tomorrow to launch the business connection with the city’s International Balloon Fiesta. The high-profile event is the first this year for members of the Fiesta’s prestigious 100 Club. Now in its fourth year, the club invites businesses to...
Anticipation is growing ahead of Bristol’s Rabbit 2012 business show with a growing number of businesses looking to take space. The exhibition, which is free to delegates, has already caught the attention of hundreds of businesses in the region. Rabbit promises to be a whole new form of business...
Supermarket group Sainsbury’s has unveiled its latest redevelopment plans for Bristol’s Memorial Stadium – and admitted it has learnt lessons from the planning wrangle over its controversial Ashton Gate scheme. Sainsbury’s plans at the Memorial Stadium – home to Bristol Rovers and Bristol Rugby – include a 50,000 sq ft...
Bristol entrepreneur Adil Ayub has returned to the area of the city where he grew up to launch a property letting agency. Adil, who has been in the property business for 10 years and boasts ex-Dragons’ Den star James Caan as a business mentor, has expanded his business empire...
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has praised Bristol for its advanced manufacturing and said the city is playing a key role in the future of the sector in Britain. Touring GKN Aerospace’s new £250m manufacturing site at Severnside, which makes wing parts for Airbus’s pioneering A350 and A400M aircraft,...
Festival Loo, an innovative Bristol firm with a mission to make dirty, smelly toilets at music events a thing of the past, has been judged the region’s best new graduate start-up business. The firm was launched last year but its directors have worked together behind the scenes at major...
Bristol Business News Travel Editor Anne Gorringe has won a prestigious award for the best on-line travel article of the year at a ceremony organised by the Italian State Tourist Board. Anne picked up her trophy at a glittering ceremony in London last night, placing her alongside winning journalists...
