Conflict management expert Felix Spender has visited India as part of the country’s ambitious plan to develop ‘smart cities’ and help lift millions of people out of poverty. The former army officer, who launched his business North Light Solutions in 2011, met politicians, university representatives and business owners at...
Bristol’s future economic growth faces huge challenges because it is being held back by complacency combined with massive inequality, low productivity and poor infrastructure. The stark warning emerged from Mayor Marvin Rees’ first State of the City lecture, when he vowed to stop Bristol being a “city fractured by...
Regional construction company Beard, which opened an office in Bristol last year, has been appointed by the ss Great Britain Trust to build its new national Brunel museum. Beard is working with Bristol-based Alec French Architects on the museum, part of the £7.2m Being Brunel project, which will explore...
The corporate team from Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon has advised asset management company Premier Asset Management Group on its listing on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market. The Burges Salmon team, led by partner Chris Godfrey, pictured, and assisted by senior associate Emma Sorrell and associate Mark...
The president of the CBI has urged West business leaders to press for a ‘soft’ Brexit with full access to the European Single Market and to also counter the view that immigration is bad for the UK. Paul Drechsler CBE told the South West CBI annual dinner that he...
Members of Bristol’s business community were among around 80 people from across the South West taking part in the UK’s largest sleep-out. They bedded down in Bristol’s Millennium Square on Friday night to raise money for youth services run by Action for Children. Among businesses involved in Byte Night...
In what has been billed as the biggest change in a generation, the process of the 2017 business rates revaluation is well under way. Matthew Midwinter, partner at national property consultant Sanderson Weatherall, considers how Bristol’s retail, office and industrial sectors may be affected. What are business rates? Business...
A new regional Prince’s Trust development committee has been set up by a group of leading business figures to help the organisation raise vital funds to support young people. The committee aims is to raise more than £1m during 2016-17 to go directly towards The Prince’s Trust in the...
International property consultancy JLL’s lead director for the South West & Wales, Jeremy Richards, is to step down from the role at the end of this year and will be replaced by director of project and development services Simon Peacock. Jeremy will take on the role of regional chairman...
A Bristol-led team of building innovators is hoping to develop one of the UK’s most sustainable housing schemes in a suburb of the city. Plans for the 161-home development in Southmead – which would also help tackle the affordable housing crisis in the city - have been submitted to Bristol City...
Bristol-based advertising, design and digital agency Stuff has moved to a new office and continued its growth with a raft of clients and staff hirings. The agency has relocated from Mariner House in Prince Street to The Georgian House on Gas Ferry Road close to Aardman Animation’s HQ and...
Another Bristol independent food retailer is to open in the city’s burgeoning Harbourside food quarter Wapping Wharf. Biblos, known for its fast-food fusion of Middle Eastern and Caribbean cuisine, will become the latest arrival at the development opens its doors this winter. Owners William Clarke and Ariel Czackers...
Five firms from the Bristol area have been included in a prestigious league table of the UK’s fastest-growing privately owned businesses. Dental group Oasis Dental Care, catering equipment supplier Nisbets, recruitment consultancy Resource Solutions Group (RSG), building products supplier Taylor Maxwell and Yeo Valley, the yoghurt and dairy group, will...
