A blueprint for Bristol’s development over the next 40 years has been published by the city’s business leaders – with a key ambition of eradicating poverty and unemployment. Improving public transport to generate economic growth also forms a major part of the plan, along with grandiose ideas such as...
Bristol’s Happy City Initiative has launched the Happiness Challenge, an innovative programme aimed at strengthening businesses in the city and helping them through the economic downturn. The Challenge, which is being backed by Bristol Business News, focuses on happiness as a way of improving productivity, solving problems, inspiring creativity...
The debate about how Bristol and the West of England will develop over the next 40 years is kick-started this afternoon with the launch of a book looking at the region in the year 2050. Called High in Hope, the book presents the main ideas generated through the Bristol...
Bishop Fleming, the accountancy firm with the widest spread of offices in the South West, has extended its network further with the acquisition of the Bath office of Target Accountants, which went into administration last week. The move has saved the jobs of three partners and more than 40...
Bristol-based exiled Zimbabwean film maker Simon Bright’s powerful documentary on Robert Mugabe – Robert Mugabe. .. What Happened? – is being screened this week at the Watershed following its sell-out premiere at Bristol’s recent Afrika Eye film festival. The documentary, filmed undercover in Zimbabwe, challenges conventional wisdom about Mugabe...
Vistair, the Bristol firm supplying cutting-edge safety and recording software to the global aviation industry, has boosted its team following a strong performance this year. Alan Duffy is the firm’s new production manager while Rafia Anjum, Rosie Rumsey, Nick Webb, John Franks and Steve Tebble have joined as document...
Bristol-based charity Ape Action Africa is seeking a big-hearted business to donate an iPad2 as a raffle prize and so boost its work in protecting endangered primates. The charity would like to raffle off an iPad at tomorrow evening’s prestigious Only Connect networking event taking place at the Living...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com Another 350 jobs are set to go at Bristol City Council as it aims to take another £21m out of its budget. Proposals for the 2012/13 budget, which will be voted on next February, include a freezing of council tax for a second successive year,...
An independent Bristol brewery has won one of the UK’s top food and drink awards, recognising not just its beers but its role in regenerating South Bristol. The Bristol Beer Factory in Southville has won the Best Drinks Producer in the BBC Food and Farming Awards. The award was...
Global leader in multimedia and communications Imagination Technologies is to open a research and development base in Bristol, underlining the city’s world-leading position in microchip design. The group, which is quoted on the London Stock Exchange, creates and licenses market-leading products for a range of uses in mobile phones,...
Leading lights from the creative industry are in Bristol today and tomorrow to take part in a conference aimed at supporting the region’s burgeoning creative sector. Called Vision, the high-profile event is organised by Bristol Media and hosted by the Arnolfini and brings together more than 20 speakers from...
MITIE, the Bristol-based outsourcing giant, said continued cost cutting in both the public and private sectors will spark further growth as it unveiled a 0.8% increase in pre-tax profits to £48m. The small profits rise, which was earned on a 5.8% jump in half-year revenues to £972m, scarcely showed...
Firms considering making investments in new plant and machinery are being urged to do so now while generous tax allowances are still available. The advice comes from Bristol-based chartered accountancy firm Whyatt Pakeman Partners, which says that the Annual Investment Allowance (AIA), a capital allowance which enables business owners...
