National accountancy firm Haines Watts’ Bristol office has widened its offering to clients to include business coaching, HR and legal services by teaming up with specialist providers across the South West. Operating under the one banner of Haines Watts Employer Services, the partnership aims to support local smaller businesses...
Bristol-based National Friendly, the specialist provider of insurance and care funding to the over-50s, has appointed Gavin Brooks to the role of business development manager. The mutual society said the move was designed to continue to support its rapidly growing presence in the intermediary sector. Gavin, pictured, has more...
Bristol-headquartered national law firms Burges Salmon and TLT have secured places on Sport England’s new sports and arts legal services panel. They are among nine firms that will provide legal services to the panel, estimated to be worth £2.5m over four years. The contract for the panel, which services...
Did you know that your Intellectual Property (IP) assets can be integral to the growth and sustainability of your business? When properly managed, the value of your IP can far outweigh physical assets, accounting for over 70% of your business’s value. One of the biggest misconceptions we hear about is business owners thinking they...
Monday April 5 Bank holiday Tuesday April 6 Nothing listed Wednesday April 7 Finals: Hilton Foods, IGas Energy, Pharos Energy AGM: Law Debenture Corp Economic announcements: RICS housing market survey, PMI services Thursday April 8 Finals: Equals Group, M Winkworth, OneSavings Bank Interim: Tracsis Trading announcements: Dunelm, Entain, Ferrexpo Friday April 9 AGM:...
Bristol legal practice Lysander Law has expanded its medical negligence team with the appointment of two new solicitors. The move follows a leap of 159% in the single-office firm’s turnover between 2018 and 2020 and complements its existing divisions, including personal and complex injury, insolvency, financial, commercial, and civil litigation. The new arrivals to...
Five new partners have been appointed by Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon in a move it says will improve its gender balance in senior leadership roles. The five, including three who trained at the firm, will increase the firm’s total number of partners to 99 when they take...
National business group the CBI has appointed Adrian Bratt, the General Counsel of luxury motorboat manufacturer Princess Yachts, as the next chair of its South West region. Adrian, pictured, who is also a board director at the Plymouth-based firm, takes over from Pennon chief executive Susan Davy, who has...
Monday March 29 Finals: Dev Clever Holdings, Digitalbox, Eleco, Globaltrans Investment, Impact Health, Quixant, Ten Entertainment Group Economic announcement: Nationwide house price index Tuesday March 30 Finals: Animalcare Group, Barr (A.G.), Central Asia, Chesnara, Dialight, EKF Diganostics Holdings, Itaconix, Loopup Group, Michelmersh Brick Holdings, REI Agro, S & U,...
The world’s first full-scale ‘fusion’ power plant could be built on Bristol’s doorstep under an ambitious plan backed by the city’s business leaders. The plant, which would harness the game-changing new form of clean power generation, could create thousands of jobs while also helping to tackle climate change, according...
Bristol attracted the third largest amount of investment into tech businesses last year of any UK city, according to a new report, which also named one of its fastest-growing firms among the country’s top 10 ‘superstar scale-ups’ of 2020. Some £339m in venture capital funding went to Bristol tech...
The developer behind Bristol’s largest speculative office scheme has vowed it will also be the city’s first carbon net zero building. CEG’s 200,000 sq ft EQ, pictured, which is under construction on Victoria Street, will support Bristol City Council’s declaration of a climate emergency and pledge to make the city carbon neutral...
Fast-growing Bristol digital transformation specialist Amdaris has appointed Dawood Khan to the role of sales director in a move it says will broaden its offering will support its continued expansion. Dawood, pictured, has joined Amdaris – which has grown 40% year on year for the past four years –...
