Bristol-based Ultimate Finance Group, which provides funding to small and medium-sized enterprises, has opened its first office in Scotland. Heading the new Glasgow base is Richard Waldman, pictured, who is well known in financial circles having spent more than 20 years in the industry. For 10 years, he was...
Barclays has become the latest blue-chip company to sponsor Business Showcase South West 2015 – the region’s biggest business exhibition which returns for a second year in May. Barclays joins First Great Western and Enterprise Rent-a-car in sponsoring the event staged again at Bristol’s Colston Hall. Following last year’s...
Cathy Allen, a pension specialist with more than 20 years’ industry experience, has joined the Bristol office of the accountancy and investment management group Smith & Williamson. As an associate director in the firm’s assurance and business services team, Cathy, pictured, manages a range of pension scheme audits and...
National law firm Bond Dickinson has appointed Greg Moss as a senior wealth adviser based in its Bristol office. Greg, a chartered financial planner and Fellow of the Personal Finance Society, joins Bond Dickinson Wealth Limited from Bristol firm Paradigm Norton Financial Planning. He will provide financial planning and...
Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Rebecca Pritchard, head of Business Banking at Triodos Bank, answers our 10 questions. What was the last: Film you watched? Gravity – with Sandra Bullock and...
Bristol has been showcased as one of Europe’s top investment hotspots with the claim that is helping create a new kind of city for the 21st century. A gathering of major international investors in London heard that its creativity, innovation and independent spirit were pushing the city in a...
The £45m campaign to transform Bristol’s Colston Hall into a nationally important music venue has received a £5m boost from the Government. The funding was pledged by Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander during a visit to the iconic building. The regeneration plans for the hall – due...
Business networking group What’s Right is holding an auction at Bristol and Bath Science Park in aid of several local charities. The event, from 6pm on Thursday, is the latest staged by What’s Right, which has raised more than £20,000 for good causes. Bristol Rovers tickets, a round of golf, spa days,...
Deki, the pioneering Bristol microfinance charity, has officially launched its Bristol Businesses Against Poverty partnership with a plea to local firms to help it fight poverty in Africa. Since it was set up in 2008 by UWE undergraduate Vashti Seth, pictured, Deki has lent more than £450,000 to entrepreneurs...
With businesses becoming increasingly reliant on the successful use of social media to grow, Barclays is staging an event next week highlighting some of its more effective tools. Called Leading in the Digital Age – the use of Intelligent Social Media, the event at UWE’s Frenchay Campus near Bristol...
Regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming, which has an office in Bristol, has continued to shrink its carbon footprint despite growing its staffing levels. The firm has added 75 people to its workforce and won more 1,000 clients over the past year yet its average consumption of electricity and gas...
Bristol firms are greeting positive economic news, such as the latest fall in unemployment, with “faint alarm bells rather than celebratory cheers”, according to the region’s largest business organisation. Business West, which runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Bristol Initiative, said politicians should now focus on the “significant...
Solicitors with tax affairs which are not up to date, including those with undisclosed taxable income, have less than three weeks to notify HMRC of their intention to take part in its disclosure facility. The warning comes from the Bristol office of accountancy and investment management group Smith &...
