Bristol-based human resources outsourcing specialist The HR Dept has made a major appointment to strength its newly restructured health and safety offering The HS Dept. The firm has offered health and safety advice and support for several years using experts based in its Emersons Green office and via a...
Forward-thinking Bristol firms that put their staff’s wellbeing front and centre now have more time to enter the South West’s only awards that champion workplace happiness. The deadline for the competition, now in its fourth year, has been extended into next month due to an unprecedented number of entrants. ...
Bristol’s iconic Avon Gorge Hotel is to re-open later this month after a multi-million pound refurbishment by owners the Hotel du Vin group. All 78 bedrooms and suites have been transformed along with a new restaurant and meeting rooms at the venue, which has been renamed the Avon Gorge...
The first businesses have signed up to support Bristol Giving Day, a new fundraising event aimed at boosting the coffers of some of the thousands of local charities and good causes across the city. Hosted by Quartet Community Foundation, the independent charity that works across the West of England...
A stretch of unused dual carriageway near Bristol promoted to film and TV production companies as ‘the road to nowhere’ has played a starring role in BBC One hospital drama Casualty’s explosive return to the city. The 400m section of road was built in 1974 as part of a...
The Bristol office of specialist finance group BGF has made a £4.7m growth capital investment in heavy equipment rental firm Plantforce – its second transaction in the sector this month. Weston-super-Mare-headquartered Plantforce is the largest firm of its type in the South West with a client portfolio that includes...
Bristol-based Molson Construction Equipment, the UK’s largest distributor of capital equipment, has received a £6.3m investment from BGF to support its growth strategy. Molson will use the funding to build a new national parts centre and additional depots across the UK. Founded in Yatton in 1996 by Jonathan Wilson...
Bristol’s foresight in the 1990s in allowing larger-than-average industrial buildings to go up near Avonmouth has paid off, with two such ‘sheds’ now back on the market, according to a leading commercial property consultant. The warehouses formerly occupied by logistics group Downton as a distribution base for Gaymers Cider...
Business groups are divided over the need for yesterdey’s 0.25% increase in interest rates by the Bank of England. The move, which took the base rate from 0.5% to 0.75%, is only the only the second time the Bank has hiked the cost of borrowing since the economy crashed...
Lawyers in regional firm Thrings’ Bristol office have helped a division of long-standing client Redde Group acquire a Grade A office building and adjoining land as part of its fast-paced expansion. FMG, the UK’s leading independent provider of fleet incident management and specialist vehicle recovery services, is moving into...
Almeda Facilities has won big at a national awards event that champions family businesses. The Keynsham-based firm secured the ‘Best Business to Work For’ and ‘Family Business of the Year’ titles for the South West at the National Family Business Awards. The awards are acknowledged as the...
Bristol Airport’s new chief executive officer Dave Lees took up his post today with a pledge to work with businesses, politicians and local communities to build on the airport’s success and oversee its next phase of growth. Mr Lees, pictured, joins from of Southampton Airport where he was managing...
Bristol’s industrial property sector is enjoying its most significant speculative industrial building period ever while its buoyant city centre office market is about to achieve another record rent. According to a number of recent reports on the city’s commercial property market, Bristol is increasingly competing against larger UK cities...
