Wessex Water has won two Green Apple Awards in a national campaign to find Britain’s greenest companies, councils and communities. The company, which supplies sewerage services in Bristol, submitted entries for its catchment management and waste reduction and recycling projects, competing against 500 other nominations. The awards are organised...
From Bristol24-7 www.bristol247.com As the long-running BBC medical drama Casualty spends its last day in Bristol today, it is claimed the move to Cardiff will cost the city’s economy £25m. The series began life in 1986 and, in more than 780 episodes, actors including Kate Winslet, Orlando Bloom and...
The Bristol office of the Leonard Curtis Business Solutions Group continues to expand with the appointment of Dean Stritch, who will head the specialist debt advisory business Corporate Strategies. Dean joins Leonard Curtis having spent 11 years in the financial industry, four as an independent financial adviser with Chase...
From Bristol24-7 Shoppers visiting WHSmith in Bristol can now access legal services when buying their newspapers, books and stationery thanks to a new partnership with legal firm QualitySolicitors Burroughs Day. “Legal Access Points” were yesterday introduced in more than one hundred stores across the UK, including at The Mall, Cribbs Causeway and the...
Racing car enthusiast Tom Alexander, who helped to found Virgin Mobile in Trowbridge in the late 90s, is looking forward to more time with his family in Somerset after resigning as boss of Bristol-based Everything Everywhere "to spend more time with his children". It follows growing concerns by the...
Optimism among owner-managed businesses in the South West is back on the agenda, according to the 2011 Baker Tilly Owner-Managed Business (OMB) survey. It has uncovered a year-on-year rise in positive sentiments from 40% to 75% of respondents. However, business owners are less bullish about profitability. Although 60% expect an increase in sales...
Entrepreneur Jamie Murray Wells, founder of online retailer Glasses Direct, has shared the five lessons he has learnt from launching his successful business seven years ago. Speaking at the South West Entrepreneurs Forum in Bristol, Jamie, who launched Glasses Direct while a student at the University of the West...
Arron Banks, chief executive and co-founder of Brightside - the 2011 West of England Business of the Year – has collected £2m from the sale of 8m shares at 25p each. But he still holds nearly 70m, equivalent to more than 15% of the company. Mr Banks, along with commercial director...
Alterian, the troubled Bristol-based marketing software group, says revenue generated since April 1 is “in line with management plans”, signalling a turnaround in its fortunes. The group has had a torrid few months with chief executive David Eldridge resigning in April following a pre-tax loss of £4.29m. That triggered...
The UNITE UK Student Accommodation Fund, comprising about half the student accommodation managed by Bristol-based UNITE group, was valued at £1.25bn at the end of March. Its estimated net asset value (NAV) at 30 June 2011 was £0.837 per unit, reflecting an increase of 1.1% during the second quarter of...
Airbus, which designs and part builds aircraft wings at Filton, is aiming to tempt American Airlines away from US rival Boeing by offering preferential financing worth £3.7bn. It has put together a team of lenders and leasing firms to win a heavily discounted order with a catalogue value of...
The Bristol Port Company has signalled faith in its long-term prosperity by taking on 10 apprentices so far this year. It is aiming to turn them into the supervisors and managers of the future. The company, which was visited last week by Mike Penning, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State...
Serial prospector David Bramhill floated another oil and gas exploration company on AIM today. Mr Bramhill is executive chairman of Bristol-based Bluebird Energy which will raise £2.5m through a placing of 200m new ordinary shares in the company priced at 1p each. Bluebird is also aiming to raise up...
