A team from the Bristol head office of national law firm TLT has acted for Britain’s largest independent manufacturer of concrete facing bricks on its sale to listed landscape products manufacturer Marshalls. The strategic acquisition of Newport-based Edenhall will boost Marshalls’ growth the new-build housing market. TLT has worked...
Bristol-based invoice finance firm Optimum Finance has appointed Mike Stevens as regional sales director for London and the South East, signalling the start of the next phase of growth for the company. With a background in banking and finance at Barclays and RBS, Mike, pictured, joins Optimum Finance with...
Charity Finance magazine has named Bristol-headquartered VWV among its top three law firms for the sector for the fourth year running. The firm, which acts for some of Bristol’s best-known charities including Wallace & Gromit’s Children’s Foundation and The Soil Association, appears at number three in the annual ranking...
Company bosses from Bristol and across the West of England are “intensely frustrated” with the latest delay affecting Brexit, according to the region’s largest business organisation. Business West – which runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Bristol Initiative – said time was now running out for a managed...
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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 Sally Cordwell, business director of branding and communications agency Future Kings, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Moana. My daughter loves...
Bristol’s standing as a world-leading centre for aerospace innovation has been given a multi-million pound boost with plans to open a global technology centre for the industry at Filton. Engineering giant GKN, which already employs around 2,000 people at plants in Filton and Avonmouth, is to co-fund the centre...
Bristol’s Bloodhound supersonic car project – which had hoped to set a world land vehicle record of 1,000mph – has been axed after hitting a cash crisis. Administrators for the firm behind the Avonmouth-based project, Bloodhound Programme, today effectively pulled the plug on the bid after failing to secure...
Bristol-based Ultrahaptics, the world leader in mid-air touch technology, is poised for further growth after completing a £35m Series C round of investment. The funding will enable the University of Bristol spin-out to further develop and commercialise its revolutionary ‘haptic’ technology into new markets. The new funding was led by...
