Accountancy firm Baker Tilly has strengthened its Bristol office with two promotions in its tax team. Matthew Sewell, who has been with Baker Tilly for five years, becomes tax partner while Andrew Gordon, who has more than 10 years’ experience of working with a mix of international companies, multi-national...
The Bristol office of accountancy and investment management group Smith & Williamson has contributed to the business’s strong annual growth. Funds under management and advice for the group rose by 5.6% in the year to April 30, reaching £15bn for the first time – a rate of growth double...
Bristol business leaders today welcomed the latest positive national economic figures but concerns remain that the pace of growth is slowing and further problems could lie ahead. The Office for National Statistics figures show the UK’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 0.7% in the three months to September...
Quartet Community Foundation has been awarded £10,000 to work with a wide range of partners to help Bristol and the West of England’s social enterprises and the voluntary sector access European funding. It aims to raise awareness of the European funding programme, map evidence of need and of experience...
Samantha Barnes, an auditor from the Bristol office of accountants Smith & Williamson, has been named as one of the UK’s best up-and-coming young accountants. Samantha, 26, pictured, was one of ‘Rising 20 Stars of the Profession’ chosen for the accolade by ACA students’ magazine Vital. Samantha’s nomination was...
The tax and corporate finance teams at West accountancy group Bishop Fleming, which has an office in Bristol, are celebrating their most successful year yet having completed just over 20 transactions worth in total more than £200m. The team’s latest deal involved the sale of Asteral, the UK’s leading...
The economic recovery may not be as strong as anticipated despite the latest fall in unemployment, Business West, the organisation that runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Bristol Initiative, has warned. While welcoming the 1.6% year-on-year drop in the number of people out of work in the South...
The Bristol office of accountancy firm Smith & Williamson, has hosted an exhibition of art shortlisted for the 27th annual Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2014 – the largest exhibition of its kind in the UK. A private viewing of 93 original works by 73 artists included four from Somerset...
International accountancy firm PwC is to relocate its Bristol office to the showpiece 2 Glass Wharf scheme at Temple Quay in a move that reinforces the recovery of the city’s commercial property sector. PwC is taking just over 37,000 sq ft in the 100,000 sq ft office building, pictured...
The benefits of floating on the London Stock Exchange will be spelled out to financial directors this week at the next meeting of the accountants Grant Thornton’s quarterly FD Club. Lucy Tarleton, the LSE’s representative for London and the South of England, will join Tim Lincoln, head of Grant...
Accountancy firm Grant Thornton is predicting further growth in the South West in tandem with its national practice, which this week recorded its fifth successive year of strong results. Revenue across the UK was up 9% to £512m for the financial year ended June 30, hitting its turnover target...
Accountancy firm BDO has appointed a new lead partner for the South West as it prepares to grow its staff by a fifth and expand its regional head office. Andrea Bishop, an experienced audit partner who has been at the firm for 10 years, has taken over from Graham...
Bristol-based healthy fast food group Friska has secured an investment of £1.25m towards its long-term goal of becoming a national chain. The money, raised through two angel investors and Santander, will allow Friska to open 10 new sites in Bristol, Birmingham and Manchester. It forms the first stage of...
