Entrepreneurs need three attributes to be successful – creativity, passion and tenacity, according to Paul Lindley, the founder of fast-growing baby food producer Ella’s Kitchen. The former accountant and kids’ TV executive launched the business, named after his daughter, six years ago with a clear mission – to produce...
The £50m Leisuredome to be built in Weston-super-Mare has secured its first tenants, including household name food and drinks retail brands and leading leisure operators. Bristol businessmen Mark and Clive Hamilton-Davies, the entrepreneurs behind the venture, have announced that sandwich retailer Subway, chicken takeaway chain Tennessee Chicken, local brewery...
Activity levels among South West firms rose last month, although the rate of expansion due to new business slowed, new figures show today. The latest Lloyds TSB South West Business Activity/PMI Index survey, which tracks factors such as output, new orders, employment and prices, shows October’s rate of growth...
Creating the right culture, communicating effectively with staff and having fun are among the key elements for a successful entrepreneurial business. These points were highlighted by three Bristol-based entrepreneurs – each at different stages in their business growth – at an event last night. The speakers – Griff Holland,...
Jelf, the Yate headquartered insurance, employee benefits and financial planning group, has opened its first London office as it pursues a strategy to organically build a presence in the capital. The group has grown has grown rapidly through a spate of acquisitions in recent years and now has more...
Three Bristol-based entrepreneurs will this evening explain how they have risen to the challenge of retaining creativity in their businesses. The trio will give an insight into the different stages of developing creative businesses at the event jointly staged by the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and the Institute...
Former Dragons’ Den star James Caan’s private equity firm Hamilton Bradshaw has invested in Bristol-based specialist recruitment consultancy Timothy James Consulting (TJC) in a move that will enable it to double its staff and increase turnover by more than 75% in just two years. The deal, put together by...
A centre of excellence bringing together skills training for the automotive, aerospace and engineering sectors is to be developed in North Bristol under an ambitious project by City of Bristol College. The College is to embark on the construction of a new building and an extensive refurbishment programme of...
Bristol Together, the groundbreaking social enterprise supporting a major programme of job creation for ex-offenders, has secured initial funding with the help of ethical investment specialist Triodos Bank. Clifton-based Triodos acted as lead advisor for the initial fundraising from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and a private individual, successfully securing...
The first illustrations of the high-profile, multi-million pound redevelopment of Bristol General Hospital have been released – without a tower block in sight. Essex-based developer City & Country Group, which paid £6m in June for the near-three-acre site, specialises in working on sensitive heritage sites. It is the market-leading...
Momentum, the Bristol-based corporate finance provider, has advised the shareholders of Origin Publishing on its sale to BBC Magazines as part of a larger deal with the publisher’s new owner Exponent Private Equity. Momentum backed Origin’s management buyout in 2006 when it was lead adviser to the management team....
Aerospace giant Airbus, City of Bristol College and North Somerset Council are to receive financial aid under the Government’s £950m Regional Growth Fund – but the way the cash is allocated has been criticised by the area’s leading business organisation. The three are among nearly 120 businesses, councils, educational...
Around 2,000 skilled jobs have been put at risk by the cuts to a key incentive for renewable energy announced by the Government yesterday, according to experts at Regen SW, the region’s green energy group. It claims the cuts, proposed in the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s (DECC)...
