Budget 2024: The key points

October 30, 2024
Budget 2024: The key points

Chancellor Rachel Reeves started her Budget speech by saying the country voted for change on 4 July. As a result, the Labour government could now “fix the foundations”. The way to ensure growth was to “invest, invest, invest”, she added. In total, the Budget will raise taxes by £40bn. Business...

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BDO steps up its commitment to young talent with more investment in its early career programmes

October 29, 2024
BDO steps up its commitment to young talent with more investment in its early career programmes

National accountancy and advisory firm BDO has opened applications for 29 new trainee positions in its Bristol office as it continues to invest in its early-in-career programmes. The 2025 trainee cohort will join the firm’s 8,000-strong workforce across its audit, tax, deals, and consulting, risk and outsourcing teams.  Applications...

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Former apprentice takes up partner role at Milsted Langdon after rising through the firm’s ranks

October 29, 2024
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South West accountancy, tax and business advisory firm Milsted Langdon has promoted Martin Johnson to partner, recognising his dedication and extensive expertise having joined in 2007 as an apprentice. During his 17 years at the firm, which has an office in Bristol, Martin, pictured, has worked in a range of...

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Bristol businesses need to get ready for a raft of changes in tomorrow’s much-anticipated Budget

October 29, 2024
Bristol businesses need to get ready for a raft of changes in tomorrow’s much-anticipated Budget

Business owners are on tenterhooks in advance of tomorrow’s Budget, the first by new Chancellor Rachel Reeves. Despite election campaign promises that tax rises would not affect ‘working people’, subsequent claims of the discovery of a £22bn black hole by the government suggest the nation’s finances are in a...

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Construction firm’s first social value report builds on its already strong 130-year track record

October 28, 2024
Construction firm’s first social value report builds on its already strong 130-year track record

A regional construction company founded more than 130 years ago has produced its first framework outlining its commitments to supporting the communities where it works and the wider environment as well as its people and their skills. Beard said the Social Value Framework would reinforce the family-owned business’s long-standing...

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Pumping funds into ‘clean growth’ and new machinery gives specialist manufacturer a strong pipeline

October 28, 2024
Pumping funds into ‘clean growth’ and new machinery gives specialist manufacturer a strong pipeline

A Bristol manufacturer producing specialist pumps for aquariums, zoos and entertainment parks has boosted its green credentials while also supporting its next phase of growth. Apex Pumps, which was founded in 1988 and has a 27-strong workforce, recently installed a 150-kW solar panel system on its Staple Hill factory...

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Ahead of the Agenda: The Week Ahead

October 27, 2024
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Monday October 28 Economic announcements: M4 money supply, BRC shop price index Tuesday October 29 Finals: Softcat, Ultimate Products, Cap-xx, YouGov, Sareum Holdings Interim: C&C Group Economic announcements: Consumer credit, Mortgage approvals Wednesday October 30 Final: Grit Real Estate Income Group Q3 results: Standard Chartered, Smurfit Westrock Trading announcement: Next Thursday October 31 Final: Seeing Machines Interim: Vela...

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The LAST WORD: Annie Legge, co-founder, Tech4Good South West

October 25, 2024
The LAST WORD: Annie Legge, co-founder, Tech4Good South West

Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Tech4Good South West co-founder Annie Legge answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST Film you watched? The Outrun. I loved the emphasis on healing through nature – cold water swimming...

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Unique maritime research platform saved from the scrapyard by Bristol firm after its team flips into action

October 25, 2024
Unique maritime research platform saved from the scrapyard by Bristol firm after its team flips into action

Bristol subsea design firm DEEP, which is developing what it calls the next generation of ‘underwater human habitats’, has saved a pioneering ocean-going research vessel from being scrapped in a last-minute rescue mission. Bosses at the firm learned about the plight of the R/P FLIP (Floating Instrument Platform), pictured,...

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