More 350 of the South West’s senior business figures will gather this Thursday for the CBI South West’s annual dinner when the keynote speaker will CBI director-general John Cridland. The black tie event at The Marriott City Centre Hotel, Bristol, will also hear from Major General Andy Salmon CMG OBE. The C Group co-founder...
SciSys, the Chippenham-based specialist software developer, looks set to gain significant business from the £1bn British Army Warrior Armoured Fighting Vehicle upgrade programme announced last week by Prime Minister David Cameron. As a member of the Warrior Transformation Team with special responsibility for the electronics architecture, SciSys representatives were present when the selection of Lockheed Martin...
Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets has extended its South West and South Wales team with the appointment of Paul Harvey as business development director. Paul joins the Bristol-based team after six years at the helm of Barclays Corporate in the South West and brings with him 30 years’ experience in corporate banking. Paul will focus...
SciSys executive chairman and founder Mike Love is to step back from day-to-day control of the Chippenham-based hi-tech company to become non executive chairman. The firm said in a statement today that he will, however, remain a director and significant shareholder in the group. SciSys, whose pre-tax profits rose 83% to £1.1m in the...
Future publishing boss Stevie Spring and her financial director John Bowman have quit their jobs with immediate effect. Their departure comes months after the Bath-based international special interest media group issued a warning about its full-year results and said it would undertake a restructuring of its businesses. Mark Wood, the head of Future UK, and Graham...
Businesses and entrepreneurs with ideas ranging from healthcare solutions, renewable energy technologies, high-value manufacturing and apps to make companies more efficient will demonstrate their projects at Venturefest Bristol which is being held at at the Bristol & Bath Science Park next Thursday, November 3. The event will link entrepreneurs and innovators from across the Bristol...
Businesses and entrepreneurs with ideas ranging from healthcare solutions, renewable energy technologies, high value manufacture and apps for more efficient business solutions will demonstrate their projects at Venturefest Bristol which is being held at at the Bristol & Bath Science Park next week on Thursday, November 3. The event will unite entrepreneurs and innovators...
South West manufacturers are showing encouraging signs of growth, according to the latest findings of the Manufacturing Advisory Service in the South West (MAS-SW). Almost two-thirds (63 per cent) of respondents to the latest Barometer, conducted quarterly by MAS-SW, reported increased sales in the past six months (April to September 2011). The Manufacturing Barometer,...
Bath-based PR agencies Geometry and Media Safari won gold awards in this year's prestigious West of England PRide Awards. Geometry took the Best Use of Media Relations award for its Made in Cornwall campaign while Media Safari collected gold in the Best Use of Social Media category for BitDefending the Nation. Geometry, which has...
The government has been urged to do more to help the UK’s ‘forgotten army’ of medium-sized businesses. The plea has come from the CBI, which today said new measures should be brought in to improve access to finance, especially in the bond markets. Businesses turning over between £10m and £100m represent less than 1%...
