More than 100 innovative businesses have been supported by Future Space, the science hub launched five years ago by UWE Bristol, creating 400-plus high-value jobs between them, a new report shows. One of four University Enterprise Zones (UEZ) set up across the country, Future Space aims to spark new...
A €100m cross-border acquisition by UK global games entertainment group Team17 has been completed with the help of accountancy firm PKF Francis Clark’s Bristol office. Team17, best-known for the Worms franchise, The Escapists and Overcooked, snapped up leading German-based simulation games developer Astragon Entertainment as it continues its rapid...
Nicole Kruger, an associate director in the health care team at property agency Avison Young’s Bristol office, has become a member of the Bristol Property Inclusion Commission, the body on a mission to widen representation in the sector. The Commission supports the implementation of the Bristol Property Inclusion Charter,...
National accountancy group Smith & Williamson, which has a Bristol office, is to partner with fintech group Innovate Finance to provide its members with professional and financial services insights to help them grow and develop their businesses. Under the year-long tie-up, the two will collaborate on a series of...
Dealmakers from accountancy firm Deloitte’s Bristol-based mergers & acquisitions team completed a record number 17 deals last year – four of them in just three weeks during December. The total number, with a collective value of just under £2bn, was almost double that of 2020, when the team completed...
Purplefish, the Bristol-based communications agency, has appointed employer experience and brand expert Lucy McKerron as associate director to head a new division focusing on employee experience communications. Lucy, pictured, right, with Purplefish managing director Jo Randall, who has 15 years’ experience working in agencies, joins the 10-strong Purplefish team from internal...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has advised the shareholders of long-standing client, solar energy company Innova Energy, on its sale to investor Elm Trading. The sale to London-based Elm, whose interests include property and forestry as well as renewable energy, concludes a long-term strategy at London and Cheltenham-based Innova...
Bristol-headquartered communications consultancy JBP has launched a sub-brand dedicated to helping organisations “mobilise, generate and promote positive action” to address climate change. Called Climate Communications and operating as a subsidiary of the agency, it will be headed by JBP managing director Chris Lawrance, pictured, and will provide strategic and tactical...
National law firm Bevan Brittan, which has an office in Bristol, has been reappointed to a legal framework used by more than 220 public bodies ranging from local authorities and NHS trusts to police authorities and national parks. Bevan Brittan is one of just 10 law firms appointed to...
Regional accountancy firm Milsted Langdon, which has an office in Bristol, has become the latest business to support the Menopause Workplace Pledge. The move follows latest statistics showing that almost 900,000 women in the UK quit their jobs due to the menopause. Milsted Langdon said that, while it was...
Monday January 24 Trading announcement: Computacenter Tuesday January 25 Trading announcement: Cairn Energy Wednesday January 26 Nothing listed Thursday January 27 Interim: NCC Trading announcements: AJ Bell, Euromoney Friday January 28 Nothing listed
Bristol’s Burges Salmon has been named as the country’s best law firm to work in by legal website RollOnFriday – with four other city-based firms in the Top 10. Burges Salmon, which employs 800 people in its Bristol HQ and London and Edinburgh offices, took the top spot out...
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 Jonnie Galvin-Wright, chairman of Bristol agency Stuff Advertising, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: What was the last film you watched? The Power of...
