Founding Members
Below is information on our Founding Members.
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3Sixty
3Sixty is a full service digital marketing agency that began life in 1995. We specialise in planning, creating, measuring and analysing digital marketing campaigns on behalf of our clients.
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Bristol International Airport
Bristol International is the 4th largest airport outside of London and the 9th largest across the UK, serving over 100 direct destinations to 28 countries. A direct daily Transatlantic service to New York operates with Continental Airlines, providing onwards connections to over 230 destinations throughout the Americas.
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Bristol Zoo
Bristol Zoo Gardens is a conservation and education charity. Its Mission is "To maintain and defend biodiversity through breeding endangered species, conserving threatened species and habitats, and promoting a wider understanding of the natural world." It is one of Bristol's leading visitor attractions, and a significant part of the cultural life of the city and region.
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Business West
Business West was formed in July 2003 between the Bristol Chamber of Commerce, Business Link West, and other local key Chambers of Commerce. This created, for the first time, a single business-led body that could both tackle the key strategic issues within the region, and represent the views of business locally, across the South West and at national level.
Business West key functions are:
- Business membership organisation
- Voice of Business for the West of England
- Deliverer of services including Business Link contract, UK T&I contract, Export Documentation service, Business Training programmes plus other commercial activities.
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CBI
The CBI is the UK's leading business organisation, speaking for some 240,000 businesses that together employ around a third of the private sector workforce.
Member companies, which decide all policy positions, include:
- 80 of the FTSE 100
- some 200,000 small and medium-size firms
- more than 20,000 manufacturers
- over 150 sectoral associations.
No other UK organisation represents as many major employers, small and medium-size firms or companies in the manufacturing or service sectors.
The CBI's broad-based membership gives it unrivalled influence with the UK government. The organisation is also the UK's official business representative in the European Union, which generates more than 50 per cent of regulation affecting British firms.
With offices across the UK as well as in London, Brussels, Washington and Beijing, the CBI coordinates British business representation around the world.
The CBI's Washington office supports CBI members who trade with or invest in the United States of America. Staff based there engage with the administration and policy makers, facilitate contact making for members and deliver tangible wins for British businesses having American interests. Regular updates are sent to members.
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Continental Airlines
Award-winning Continental Airlines offers service excellence and unrivalled access to the US from the UK, with flights to New York from seven UK airports – more than any other airline – and onward connections to over 230 business and leisure destinations across the Americas.
Voted ‘Airline of the Year’ by frequent flyers worldwide at the 2004 and 2005 OAG Awards, Continental also won OAG’s ‘Best Business Class’ award in 2006, for the fourth year in a row and ‘Best Airline based in North America’ for the third year running.
To book flights call 0845 60 767 60, or book online at www.continental.com/uk
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Hunter-Fleming
Hunter-Fleming is a UK specialist pharmaceutical company at the forefront of research and development into effective treatments for neurodegenerative disorders of the Central Nervous System (CNS) and immunological/inflammatory diseases in areas of high unmet medical need. Inflammatory degenerative disorders are severe, debilitating conditions that often lead to death and include Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, vascular dementia, stroke, head injury, spinal cord injury, myocardial infarct, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, chronic inflammatory bowel disease, asthma, cancers and chronic kidney disease.
The company bridges the gap between centres of research excellence and the pharmaceutical industry by in-licensing novel therapeutic technology, undertaking preclinical and clinical development through managed research and development in universities, centres of medical excellence, contract laboratories and research companies. Projects will usually be taken through Phase II clinical trials and then Hunter-Fleming seeks to out-license the products to fully integrated pharmaceutical companies capable of completing the development and marketing of a product.
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Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets
Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets brings together the Corporate Banking, Structured Finance and Financial Market Divisions of the bank to create a comprehensive, expert financial service delivering a diverse range of services and solutions to businesses ranging from privately owned firms to multinational corporations.
Within Lloyds TS B Corporate Markets, Corporate Transaction Services combines the product, sales and servicing functions of cash and trade. Core expertise covers domestic and international cash management; domestic and international payments, corporate cards and trade finance. Most of these services can be accessed over the Internet.
For more information, please contact Mark Dodd on 0117 943 4550.
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Veale Wasbrough
Veale Wasbrough's staff of 250 operate from their modern offices in the heart of Bristol city centre. The firm stands out for its combination of specialist expertise, genuine team work and high standards of excellence. Working together to succeed is the firm's goal. Rated on IIP assessment as having 'an ethos which encourages personal development and high quality performance', Veale Wasbrough has also become one of the few large law firms to receive LEXCEL accreditation for its standards of quality.
Veale Wasbrough is best known for the provision of well integrated and coordinated specialist legal services to four market sectors: namely, real estate, regional corporates, public sector and independent schools. The firm advises on international work and is a founder member of the Association of European Lawyers.
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West of England Aerospace Forum
Here at WEAF we champion the interests of all Aerospace and defence companies in the South West region; particularly to the 600 plus small and medium size enterprises that help to make it an area of global excellence. Our overall aim is to facilitate future competitiveness and growth of the aerospace industry in the South West. Our vision is to enhance the position of the South West as the most diversely capable, competitive aerospace region in the world. Though our events we keep companies up to date with new industry practices.
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UK Trade & Investment
UK Trade & Investment is the government organisation that provides integrated support services for UK companies engaged in overseas trade and foreign enterprises seeking to locate in the UK. It brings together the work of teams in British embassies and FCO posts overseas and government departments across Whitehall. In England, international trade support is coordinated by nine International Trade Directors working in partnership with each Regional Development Agency. UK Trade & Investment services are delivered locally through a network of International Trade Teams.
To contact your local International Trade Adviser, please telephone 0845 60 60 969.