Bristol’s pioneering heat network system, a key element in the city achieving carbon neutrality by 2030, has received further investment to extend it to key development areas. The existing network – which uses a number of different methods of extracting waste heat, including from the Floating Harbour – already...
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 Helen Bassett, a partner leading Smith & Williamson’s business outsourcing services team in Bristol, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? This...
Three Bristol early-stage tech companies have been named among the country’s latest ‘Rising Stars’ of the sector. All About The Cooks, itsettled, and Lumio feature on the list complied by Tech Nation, which recognises the UK’s early-stage tech scaleups with the highest potential. Lumio allows customers to instantly track...
A Bristol-based recruitment firm that has achieved a 700%-plus growth rate since its launch three years ago has landed a prestigious national award. Foxtek Recruitment, which specialises in the Dutch IT market, was founded by Tom Baker and Tom Page, who previously worked together at Bristol firm g2 Recruitment...
Stuff Advertising, one of Bristol’s longest-established and independent creative communication agencies, has promoted Joe Baker to managing director. The move is part of wider changes in directors’ responsibilities aimed at shaping the business for the future and comes ahead of a rebrand later this year. CEO Jonnie Galvin-Wright will...
More than three-quarters of manufacturing firms in Bristol and across the West of England have been affected by delays or other disruption when importing supplies or goods, according to the latest economic survey by the regions largest business group. Two-thirds of all importers have also been affected, triggering a...
Two of Bristol’s largest law firms have secured places on a new government legal panel responsible for billions of pounds of work in areas ranging from real estate to procurement and litigation. Burges Salmon and TLT have been appointed to the Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) Legal Services Panel along...
Bristol-based specialist invoice finance provider Optimum Finance has further strengthened its team with appointments across its marketing and finance departments. Jo Maniatt joins as marketing director, Szym Wasilewski as finance manager and Liam O’Shea as financial accountant, maintaining the firm’s rapid expansion of last year into 2022. Optimum Finance...
Global events group Fortem International, which has its UK headquarters in Bristol, has sold five rural and leisure trade shows in a deal handled by the city office of national law firm Clarke Willmott. The portfolio, which includes Farm Business Innovation, Family Attraction Expo, Country House Business Innovation, Leisure...
Bristol-based development company Baylis Estates, best known for its Cribbs Causeway retail and leisure destination, has completed its latest project – the £4m Armstrong Business Park in Yate. With the freehold sale of all six units, which total 30,000 sq ft, agreed ahead of practical completion, businesses will now...
With the ongoing impact of the pandemic, climate change and Brexit, 2022 will be another tough year for many Bristol businesses. Phil Smith, managing director of Business West – the organisation behind Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Bristol Initiative – looks at the needs and challenges for this...
Monday January 3 Bank holiday Tuesday January 4 Interim: Vulcan Industries Trading update: Tasty Wednesday January 5 Nothing listed Thursday January 6 Trading announcements: Next, Ten Entertainment, Sosandar, Made.com, British Honey, Greggs Friday January 7 Nothing listed
Bristol-based retail management software pioneer Brightpearl has been acquired by enterprise software giant Sage for £223m after spending the past few years recovering from stagnating sales. Brightpearl supplies more than 1,000 retail customers, including some of the world’s biggest brands in the sector, with its operating system, allowing them...
