Three Bristol digital marketing and tech experts have set up what they believe is the most user-friendly and comprehensive platform to enable smaller firms to apply to the government’s recently launched Kickstart Scheme. KickstartGo has just one simple form that businesses need to complete if they want to make...
It certainly seems to be the case that if you are self-employed, pensions saving and working out how you will fund your retirement are a worry. A full 65% of all self-employed people without a pension say they can’t currently afford to save for retirement, according to a survey...
Optimum Finance, the Bristol-based invoice finance provider, has appointed two regional sales directors to cover the West of England, Wales and the South East and promoted its Yorkshire-based sales director to commercial director. Kelvin Thomas is in charge of sales in Wales and the West while Iain Hendry has...
Boosting skills and developing the physical and digital infrastructure will be vital for South West to build back better from the economic ravages of coronavirus, the CBI said today in a major new report. Called Reviving Regions, the paper highlights long-standing regional inequalities across England which have inhibited growth, opportunity and...
Two pioneering Bristol tech entrepreneurs have made a significant investment in city-based ‘intelligent video’ and AI innovator One Big Circle to prepare it for a new phase of rapid growth. David Harris and Toby Hughes have also joined One Big Circle’s board as executive chairman and non-executive director respectively as...
Bristol firms trading in Europe have been told that it is ‘almost too late’ if they have not planned for a worst case scenario following the end of the Brexit transition on January 1. The 50-day countdown to that date was on Wednesday and Business West, the region’s largest...
Bristol-based professional advisers have overcome turbulent times in the domestic tourist sector to complete the sale of a long-established Welsh holiday cottage business to one of the UK’s leading vacation lettings agencies. The Bristol office of accountancy group Smith & Williamson worked with the corporate team from law firm...
Hydrock, the Bristol-based multi-disciplinary engineering, energy and sustainability consultancy, has appointed former KPMG partner Ronnie McCombe as its non-executive chairman. Ronnie, pictured, will work with Hydrock’s board to drive forward the next stage of the company’s growth, drawing on his wide experience of working with innovative and fast-growth companies...
The Covid pandemic has reduced levels of economic activity across the UK this year. Households and businesses have generally been spending and investing less than they were before the pandemic struck. This fall in spending and investment risks significant job losses as many businesses face much lower demand for...
A service offering legal clients an alternative approach to resolving expensive and time-consuming costs disputes has been started by a team of Bristol-based specialists. The range of services supplied by Legal Costs Resolutions’ (LCR) is designed to eliminate issues between disputing parties and help achieve a quicker, more efficient...
Bristol businesses are being urged to join a new group which launched today to help make the city carbon neutral within 10 years by sharing experiences and best practice. Fifteen leading organisations from across the city have already signed to become members of the Climate Leaders Group, ranging from...
Bristol-based pensions and employee benefits communications firm Concert Consulting, which works with blue-chip clients such as the AA and Nationwide, has been sold to a US-based global HR benefits and consulting group. Concert, which was founded by managing director Peter Walsh in 2004, specialises in communicating to more than...
Businesses will be advised on how they can help Bristol achieve its ambitious target of being a carbon neutral city by 2030 as part of a £4m, three-year programme approved by the city council’s cabinet this week. The financial package will fund a combined Climate and Ecological Emergency Programme....
