Bristol businesses looking to expand into high-growth global markets will receive enhanced advice and support following the signing of four new international partnership agreements by Business West. The organisation, which runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Bristol Initiative, is the largest international trade support body in the South West....
Chancellor Philip Hammond is being urged to tear up the rule book on business rates and introduce a much fairer form of local corporation tax in his Budget next week. The plea comes from Bristol-based regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming. It wants to see an urgent and radical reform...
The UK’s most active provider of growth capital to small and mid-sized businesses, BGF (Business Growth Fund), is continuing to expand its team covering the South West with the appointment of James Skade as an investor. Before joining BGF, James, pictured, spent five years at accountancy group EY, most...
World-class innovation hubs in and around Bristol specialising in sectors ranging from aerospace and automotive to food and drink are a step closer following the announcement of extra growth funding for the West of England from the government. The pioneering centres have been included on a list of schemes...
Construction company Dribuild has gone above and beyond to raise more than £50,000 for urgent medical research into the treatment of a rare blood condition at Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre. Keynsham-based Dribuild started fundraising for the cause in March 2016 when it chose local hospital charity Above &...
The Bristol office of wealth management firm LGT Vestra has helped give some of the city’s most valuable works of art a more secure future as a result of a partnership with the RWA (Royal West of England Academy). LGT Vestra has partnered with the RWA, Bristol’s first art gallery, to sponsor is...
Bristol-based regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming has been named among the top 100 organisations to work for in the UK. The firm appears in the prestigious Sunday Times Top 100 Best Companies lists, which are published this Sunday. The lists measure how engaged people are at work and how...
The highly experienced judging panel for one of this year’s prestigious PwC West of England Business of the Year Awards has been announced. Among the judges are former winners of the award – widely regarded as the region’s top business accolade – as well as respected figures from the...
Accountancy group Smith & Williamson and law firm Ashfords are to jointly sponsor this year’s Bristol Jazz & Blues Festival – one of the city’s largest music events. The highly-acclaimed festival, now in its fifth year, has a packed and diverse programme of concerts and workshops between March 16...
The Bristol office of national commercial property consultancy Sanderson Weatherall has sold a ground rent investment on the site of a Gloucester hotel for above its asking price. Acting on behalf of Thornbury-based, privately owned property development and investment company Litfield Land, the investment in the Ibis Hotel in...
Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, is calling on Chancellor Philip Hammond to use his Spring Budget next month to bolster confidence amid fears that higher inflation and skill shortages will combine to hit West of England firms hard. While latest official jobless figures show unemployment continuing to...
Government plans to force millions of small businesses to make online quarterly updates to the taxman from April next year are far too rushed and could put some firms in danger of closure. The warning has come from regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming, which has its largest office in...
Bristol-based Consumer Intelligence, the provider of consumer insight for clients in the financial sector, has appointed Louis Jordan as is first chairman as it looks to further develop the business. The firm was launched 13 years ago by Ian Hughes, the former development director of Bristol-based pioneering direct marketing services...
