A major online retailer is poised to sign a deal for a large distribution warehouse in the West, part of a growing trend on the back of the dramatic rise in internet shopping this Christmas. Commercial property specialists Colliers International has witnessed similar developments across the country as shoppers...
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Business leaders and councillors in Bristol believe they have an excellent chance of attracting the world’s first dedicated Green Investment Bank (GIB) to the city. Bristol is competing against 20 other UK cities to become home to the GIB – but following a high-powered delegation to ministers at the...
Bristol-based online legal services company Everything Legal, which operates the fast-growing Law on the Web and Claims Financial businesses, has been sold to leading legal expenses insurance company DAS, also based in the city. Everything Legal founder Bradley Askew said: “This deal concludes the opening chapter for Everything Legal...
Leading global airline Emirates has become the latest operator to contract Bristol-based Vistair to provide cloud-based technical manuals for its entire fleet in a move the company says will lead to the creation of unspecified number of jobs. Under the five-year contract, signed following a selection process spanning two...
Bristol shoppers are expected to loosen their purse-strings and spend £702m this Christmas on gifts and partying. Despite household budgets being squeezed tighter this year, figures from Barclays predict that spending will be up by 4% this December on the same month last year. In Bristol, shoppers will splash...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com Bristol Rovers chairman Nick Higgs has described the signing of legal agreements to build its new stadium as an “historic day” for the club. Having secured funding for the stadium, at the University of the West England’s (UWE) Frenchay site, consultation on the redevelopment of...
Inflation fell from 5% to 4.8% last month, raising hopes that price rises may have peaked while offering a rare snippet of positive economic news. Economists are forecasting a significant drop in inflation next year, with one today predicting it will “fall like a stone” from now on. The...
Bristol is set to reveal its business case to bring the world’s first dedicated Green Investment Bank to the city at the House of Commons later today. The bid campaign: Bristol: The Natural Home for the Green Investment Bank hopes to secure the bank, which will make major inroads...
West-based accountants Milsted Langdon has become one of seven regional practices to jointly launch a service providing specialist corporate finance expertise to smaller firms. Goldsmiths Corporate Finance aims to help smaller accountancy practices offer the type of corporate finance services they are not normally able to provide to clients....
Staff at the Bristol office of accountants and business advisers BDO have been taking a break from the office to provide gardening support to Penny Brohn Cancer Care, the local charity helping people live well with the impacts of cancer. As part of its company-wide corporate social responsibility commitment,...
Elaine Durrant, a tax partner at Bristol-based chartered accountancy firm Milsted Langdon, has been invited to share her international tax expertise with North American counterparts at a major industry conference in New York. Elaine was a guest speaker at global business network MGI’s recent North American conference held at...
Bristol’s economy will be boosted by a new ‘city deals’ initiative announced this week by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, according to lobbying group Business West. But it says it does not go far enough. The aims is to shift the power from Whitehall to core UK cities with...
