Fiona Westwood has joined the 200-strong Bristol office of accountancy, investment management and tax group Smith & Williamson as a partner. Fiona, pictured, joins Smith & Williamson’s assurance and business services team from rival PwC’s Bristol office, where she worked for more than 17 years and led the firm’s...
South West law firm Foot Anstey has continued to build its sector experience with the appointment of former Lloyds Banking Group mid markets director Clive Hetherington as an advisor. Clive, pictured, left Lloyds last month after more than 30 years in the banking industry. At Foot Anstey, which has...
The UK could ‘self-harm’ from a post-Brexit attitude to foreign workers being encouraged by Theresa May’s government, former Business Secretary Sir Vince Cable has told Bristol business leaders. Leaving the EU could also have a ‘sting in the tail’ for those who voted for it thinking it would lead...
Bristol wealth management business Whitechurch Securities has landed a top industry accolade for the third year in a row – adding it to a clutch of recent award wins. The firm took the Best Overall Small Firm title at the Citywire Wealth Manager Investment Performance Awards, which have an...
Bristol’s future economic growth faces huge challenges because it is being held back by complacency combined with massive inequality, low productivity and poor infrastructure. The stark warning emerged from Mayor Marvin Rees’ first State of the City lecture, when he vowed to stop Bristol being a “city fractured by...
The president of the CBI has urged West business leaders to press for a ‘soft’ Brexit with full access to the European Single Market and to also counter the view that immigration is bad for the UK. Paul Drechsler CBE told the South West CBI annual dinner that he...
Members of Bristol’s business community were among around 80 people from across the South West taking part in the UK’s largest sleep-out. They bedded down in Bristol’s Millennium Square on Friday night to raise money for youth services run by Action for Children. Among businesses involved in Byte Night...
Regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming’s corporate finance and tax teams have chalked up new records on the back of a flurry of deals over the summer. Despite initial market uncertainties in the aftermath of the Brexit vote, the teams based across the firm’s Bristol and Bath offices have advised...
In what has been billed as the biggest change in a generation, the process of the 2017 business rates revaluation is well under way. Matthew Midwinter, partner at national property consultant Sanderson Weatherall, considers how Bristol’s retail, office and industrial sectors may be affected. What are business rates? Business...
Accountancy, investment management and tax group Smith & Williamson, which employs around 200 people at its Bristol office, has been voted the top employer in the accounting and professional services sector. The firm beat off strong competition from the Big Four and other mid-tier accounting firms to claim the...
A new regional Prince’s Trust development committee has been set up by a group of leading business figures to help the organisation raise vital funds to support young people. The committee aims is to raise more than £1m during 2016-17 to go directly towards The Prince’s Trust in the...
A Bristol-led team of building innovators is hoping to develop one of the UK’s most sustainable housing schemes in a suburb of the city. Plans for the 161-home development in Southmead – which would also help tackle the affordable housing crisis in the city - have been submitted to Bristol City...
Five firms from the Bristol area have been included in a prestigious league table of the UK’s fastest-growing privately owned businesses. Dental group Oasis Dental Care, catering equipment supplier Nisbets, recruitment consultancy Resource Solutions Group (RSG), building products supplier Taylor Maxwell and Yeo Valley, the yoghurt and dairy group, will...
