Ambitious start-up businesses hoping to turn over £500,000-plus in their first three years of trading are being invited to take part in free high-growth start-up workshops The events, staged by North Somerset Enterprise Agency in partnership with Business West, run from 9.15am to 4pm on February 21 and March...
Industrial recruitment firm Gap Personnel has expanded into Bristol to take advantage of the planned Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone. The firm has opened a base on Victoria Street in the city centre at what it describes as a “hugely exciting” time for the city’s economy. South West regional director...
Bristol’s economy and status would receive a timely boost if it introduced an elected mayor this year, according to a leading academic in local government. Professor Robin Hambleton, professor of City Leadership at the University of the West of England (UWE), said elected mayors have proved successful all over...
Bristol-based leasing and fleet management company ALD Automotive has signed a major deal with the Royal Bank of Scotland’s Lombard asset finance division which will significantly add to its already expanding operations. ALD, the UK’s fifth-largest vehicle contract hire business, anticipates funding more than 30,000 new vehicle contracts over...
To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week, construction Midas firm has recruited Ashley Jones to join its team in transforming Bristol city centre’s derelict fire station into a world-class youth hub. Fourth-year apprentice Ashley joins as work on the £5.75m project enters its six months. By the time it is finished...
Free business expertise is to be offered to the Bristol area’s advanced engineering companies under a link-up between UWE Bristol’s MBA programme and the South West’s advanced engineering and aerospace iNet (AAE iNet). Firms will benefit by working with highly-experienced postgraduates on the MBA programme across a number of...
Social enterprises in Bristol are being offered free, top-level support from a group of successful entrepreneurs who want to share combined their business acumen. The group have set up a not-for-profit company called Do Smith, with members who are experts at overhauling struggling enterprises and turning business dreams into...
Music school BIMM Bristol is to further develop its curriculum and extend its range of courses following a long-term finance deal with Barclays Corporate. The £5.65m facility is a major boost to BIMM, which also has sites in Brighton and Dublin and runs the Tech Music School (TMS) in...
Bristol digital marketing consultancy Modern Media, launched recently to help technology companies create effective campaigns, has secured high-growth funding. The award from EU-funded Solutions for Business has enabled Modern Media to take on a coach to enable it to grow quickly. The firm is targeting the large number...
BPP University College, the leading specialist provider of higher education with a base in Bristol, is offering participants in this year’s Bristol Young Student of the Year Awards the opportunity of a lifetime – the chance to win a funded place on one of its courses. All the students...
Bristol Airport has been named Best UK Airport in the prestigious Business Travel Awards 2012. The airport saw off competition from London City, Gatwick, Birmingham and Manchester to land the top award, which was presented in front of 1,200 travel industry guests at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel. An independent...
Finzels Reach, the major redevelopment scheme on Bristol’s former Courage Brewery site, has signed up the first tenant for its office building. Accountants and business advisers BDO are to take 8,707 sq ft on the 5th floor of Bridgewater House, an 110,000 sq ft grade A office building on...
Bristol’s reputation as the UK’s green capital was underpinned this week when it became the launchpad for the UK’s first marine energy park. The decision to designate an area stretching from Bristol through to Cornwall and as far as the Isles of Scilly as the South West Marine Energy...
