Directors from Bristol and across the West of England are being invited to enter one of the region’s top annual awards schemes that recognises excellence and enterprise in the boardroom. The prestigious Institute of Directors’ South West Director of the Year Awards 2017 will showcase outstanding leaders and entrepreneurs as well...
Six senior appointments have been announced ahead of the launch next month of Bristol Airport’s first airport, the Hampton by Hilton. The new management team, led by general manager Andrew Peacock, has more than 42 years’ combined experience in the hospitality industry. They bring together the mix of skills...
Property consultancy JLL’s Bristol team has raised more than £12,000 for homelessness organisation Julian Trust – its charity of the year for 2016. The JLL team raised £12,355 over the course of the year by hosting a range of fundraising events including the Contractors’ Quest in September – a...
Bristol is growing much faster than predicted. But to make this growth manageable, and for everyone in the city to benefit, we must properly plan and control our own future. 2017 gives us an opportunity to do just that, argues James Durie, chief executive of Bristol Chamber of Commerce...
Accountancy group KPMG has appointed Maria Samra as a managing director to head up its consultancy practice across the South. Maria, pictured, will manage a growing team of management and risk consultants with expertise in technology-enabled business transformation, financial services, forensics and cybersecurity, programme management and assurance. She has held...
The West of England’s world-leading aerospace and tech sectors have helped strengthen business ties between the area and the Spanish city of Malaga. A delegation from the aerospace systems cluster of the Technology Park of Andalucía has been on a two-day visit to the area this week to explore...
Professional services firm PwC has launched its annual West of England Business of the Year Awards – widely regarded as the region’s most prestigious. Now in their 29th year, the eagerly-contested awards attract the cream of the region’s firms with a winners’ roll-call reading like a who’s who of...
The Bristol office of property agents Cushman & Wakefield has made two appointments to its retail asset services team. Caroline Cubbin joins as a senior surveyor while Melissa Woolston has been taken on as an estates technician. Caroline has four years’ experience, incorporating two years’ property and asset management experience....
Three members of staff in global real estate company Colliers International’s Bristol office are among 16 promotions across its UK operations. Ben Jones, who leads the holiday parks team, becomes a director, while Tom Watkins from the industrial & logistics team has been made a senior surveyor and George...
Bristol and the West of England should aim to become the UK’s first city-region to have full employment – but it must also tackle a huge social divide made worse by spiralling housing costs. The challenge has been thrown down to the soon-to-be-elected Metro Mayor, who will lead a...
Filming has begun at Bristol’s Bottle Yard on a new television show hosted by Noel Edmonds – his third at the fast-growing TV and film studios. Cheap Cheap Cheap which will be broadcast on Channel 4 later this year, is set inside an eccentric general store filled with weird...
Exclusive events venue Clevedon Hall has been shortlisted for two prestigious awards, recognising the seaside mansion as a premier location for luxury weddings. The nominations for Best Historic Wedding Venue and Best Coastal Wedding Venue in the UK Wedding Awards come following the completion of a £4.2m, six-year project...
Bristol Law Society, the oldest regional law society in the country, has acquired a new base in the city centre – the first time in its 246-year history it has owned its own premises. The move to the 1,800 sq ft of space over two floors on Colston Avenue will...
