Specialist Bristol digital media agency Hybrid has received a £13m investment to continue to expand organically while also exploring acquisitions. Hybrid, which creates digital outcomes for clients, helping them to engage specialist audiences across the higher education and technology sectors, received the funding from leading mid-market private equity firm...
Waste management and recycling firm Hills Waste Solutions is gearing up for further growth across the South West after relocating its Bristol depot. The Swindon-headquartered firm expanded into Bristol nearly five years through its acquisition of commercial waste recycling and food collection firm Able Waste Management. The move led...
International commercial property agency Cushman & Wakefield has expanded its national offices team with a double appointment in its regional hub in Bristol. Steve Lane joins as partner to lead the Bristol offices team while Alfie Passingham arrives as an associate. Steve previously worked at JLL, where he has spent...
Workwear firm Alexandra has strengthened its commitment to combating modern slavery across domestic and global supply chains by joining a new scheme. The Thornbury-based firm, which has been designing and manufacturing garments since 1854, has joined forces with catering-to-home care group Sodexo UK and Ireland to launch the Modern...
Monday June 21 Finals: Brandshield Systems, SYS Group Tuesday June 22 Finals: Gear4Music, Novacyt, Smith (DS), Staffline Group, Trackwise Designs, Trifast Economic announcement: Public sector net borrowing Wednesday June 23 Finals: Berkeley Group, Liontrust Asset Management, Manolete Partners Trading announcement: Joules Group Thursday June 24 Finals: Alpha Financial Markets Consulting, First Property Group, Latham (James),...
A Bristol firm at the cutting edge of data protection and cyber security has received £3.1m to market its pioneering encryption hardware. University of Bristol spin-out KETS Quantum Security has developed one of the world’s first protection systems against quantum security threats, starting with chip-based, quantum-safe encryption development kits. ...
A student firm developing disruptive technology that will slash food waste in the education sector has won £10,000 to develop the idea. UK schools, colleges and universities throw away 150m tonnes of food each year, at a cost of around £250m – but the University of Bristol students behind...
Bristol’s innovative approach towards tackling food inequality, reducing waste and increasing urban growing has resulted in it becoming only the second city in the UK to secure Gold Sustainable Food City status. Awarded by the independent Sustainable Food Places Board, the accolade recognises work that also included growing the...
Bristol-based café-bar chain Loungers believes it will emerge strongly from the Covid-linked trading restrictions of the past year due to “significant pent-up demand” from the public to eat and drink in its laid-back venues again. The group, which operates 173 neighbourhood venues across England and Wales under the Lounge and...
Low-cost airline easyJet is to launch two new domestic flights from Bristol Airport next month as more holidaymakers opt for staycations this summer to avoid quarantining when they return home. The airline, the airport’s largest operator, is to begin flights to Aberdeen on July 9 and Jersey the following...
Bristol’s soon-to-open £70m motor industry global centre of excellence is to collaborate with the world’s largest automotive testing firm to help put the low-carbon car of the future on the road. The pioneering Institute of Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems (IAAPS), now under construction on the Bristol & Bath Science...
Bristol firms that have imported goods from countries in the EU this year are being urged to complete their full declarations or face a possible fine or prosecution as the final deadline approaches. Regional business group Business West, which is authorised by HMRC to process supplementary customs declarations, said...
Bristol-based specialist property developer Urban Creation has struck its first deal in Bath after spending £500,000 speculatively refurbishing a city centre building to provide state-of-the-art workspace. Pioneering Artificial Intelligence firm Cognisess has relocated to the refurbished grade II-listed office from elsewhere in the city to meet its need for a...
