Bristol finance along with legal and property expertise from the city has enabled expansion of a luxury holiday resort in Cornwall to go ahead. The Bristol commercial team of the Allied Irish Bank (GB) granted a multi million pound facility to Kingfisher Resorts St Ives to fund the development...
Ultimate Finance Group, the Bristol-based independent provider of finance to UK business, has further strengthened its leadership team with four senior appointments. They arrive in their new posts following a record year of growth in 2016 for the Almondsbury-based business. The four include Jenna Forbes, who leaves GE Capital...
Bristol entrepreneurs are being invited to attend the second meeting of The Royall Wealth Club, the innovative West-based community of forward-thinking individuals, on Monday. The club, which covers Bristol and Bath, was launched last October to bring together successful people from all walks of life to meet, share and develop...
Time is running out for Bristol firms to enter the prestigious South West Fairtrade Business Awards. Applications for the hotly contested awards, which are free to enter, close on January 31. Now in their fifth year, the awards champion organisations across the region that put ethical responsibilities at the...
Specialist lender Aldermore has made two senior appointments to its growing South West and South Wales team based in Bristol. Jamie Cullen, who takes up the post of field-based residential relationship manager, has 12 years’ experience in financial services with NatWest and TSB, where he worked as a bank...
Bristol business owners are to be shown how to promote their goods and services effectively through social media at two workshops being staged by BRAVE Enterprise, the city-based independent business support organisation. It is running the practical half-day courses – Using Social Media and Introduction to Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) –...
Bristol firms should hope for the best but plan for the worst, according to the region’s largest business organisation following Prime Minister Theresa May’s speech this week outlining her plans for Brexit. Business West, which runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Bristol Initiative, said while the landmark speech gave some...
South West law firm Foot Anstey has appointed Joanne Rumley as restructuring and insolvency partner in its Bristol-based corporate team. Joanne, pictured, joins from Bond Dickinson’s Bristol office. She has nearly 20 years’ experience in all aspects of corporate rescue, restructure, turnaround and insolvency including both formal and non-formal procedures....
HAB, the pioneering Bristol housing business set up by designer, writer and TV presenter Kevin McCloud, is seeking to raise £3m through crowd funding to acquire land for more innovative sustainable housing schemes. The funding is being sought by HAB Land, part of the award-winning HAB family of companies which...
Bristol-based R&D tax credit consultancy ForrestBrown is forecasting further expansion this year having grown its turnover by more than 100% in 2016 and doubled its staffing by taking on 19 more staff. The Clifton firm, launched by managing director Simon Brown in 2013, also opened its first London office...
Independent Bristol accountancy practice Corrigan Associates has continued its rapid growth with a 70% increase in turnover last year. Formed by Edward Corrigan in 2009 in the depth of the recession, the practice has expanded to become one of the leading independent accounting practices in Bristol, with clients ranging...
Businesses are at risk of having black marks against their credit profile because of Companies House delays in processing filed documents and accounts, according to accountancy firm Bishop Fleming. The firm, which has its largest office in Bristol, is warning that a backlog of up to a fortnight in...
Bristol firms with links to China – or those wishing to explore them – are being invited to welcome in the Year of the Rooster at a special Chinese New Year celebration banquet in the city next month. The gala banquet is being stage by the Bristol and West...
