Passengers flying into Bristol Airport can now book to have a Covid-19 test five days after their arrival which could reduce the time they need to quarantine in the UK. The airport, which has been hit hard by a major drop in international travel caused by the pandemic, has...
A golf complex on the outskirts of Bristol run for the past 23 years by a professional golfer has been sold after being marketed for more than £3m. Bristol Golf Centre, pictured, at Hambrook has been bought by Chipping Sodbury-based Golf & Leisure Group for an undisclosed fee from...
The Bristol office of national accountancy firm Smith & Williamson has advised private equity group Mobeus on a £9.5m investment into one of the UK’s fastest-growing car accident repair businesses. The investment in ABL 1Touch will support a management buyout at the firm, accelerating its expansion further as it...
Bristol-based invoice finance provider Optimum Finance has launched a website and app that give instant funding decisions to businesses on how much funding they can access. The service has also been made available to Optimum’s intermediary partners to use. The app can be rebranded and embedded within their websites...
The Bristol office of national law firm Ashfords has advised fintech client Form3 on a major investment and partnership with global payment technology leader Mastercard which could transform the industry. Under the agreement, Mastercard will use London-based Form3’s cloud-based systems to help banks and financial institutions around the world...
Fast-growing Bristol-based healthcare marketing and advertising agency Create Health has ended the year by recruiting three more staff. Ben Price joins as commercial account director and Tom Hunt as project manager while Matt Sugrim becomes the agency’s first in-house animator. Create Health, which works on global and national campaigns for...
Bristol-based ethical waste management company Waste Source has been acquired by national market leader Reconomy UK in a deal handled by regional accountancy firm Milsted Langdon. Waste Source was launched in 2010 to make waste disposal a simpler, cheaper and more effective process so businesses could reduce their waste...
The Bristol office of transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson has advised longstanding client Piper Private Equity on a £7m investment into a specialist villa brand. London-based The Thinking Traveller was launched in 2002 with seven villas in Sicily and today has 220 highly curated properties, including some of the...
Bristol-based XCD, the cloud-based HR and payroll software firm, has received a £2m investment from BGF to spur further organic and acquisitive growth. Founded in 2011, tech innovator XCD now has a workforce of employ more than 70 people and 30,000-plus users spanning not-for-profit, private and public sectors across...
Lawyers at Bristol-headquartered TLT are to benefit from a first-of-its kind fintech school set up by the firm in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University. The course gives the national firm’s lawyers a critical understanding of some of the most transformative technologies in the financial services industry, including blockchain and...
Monday December 14 Trading announcement: SThree Tuesday December 15 Finals: Chemring, Driver Group, Shaftesbury Interims: Purplebricks, Ramsdens Holdings Trading announcement: IG Group Holdings Economic announcements: Unemployment rate, Claimant count rate Wednesday December 16 Final: Real Good Food Interims: Dixon Carphone, FRP Advisory Economic announcements: Producer price index, Consumer price index, Retail price index Thursday December 17 Finals:...
Plans to develop a world-class ‘deep tech’ ecosystem in Bristol where scientists and engineers can accelerate ground-breaking ideas have been unveiled by one of the city’s most successful entrepreneurs of recent years. The scheme, led by Bristol-based chemist and investor Dr Harry Destecroix, includes an incubator, a £15m early-stage...
Another overseas property investment firm has snapped up an upmarket Bristol student accommodation scheme – this time before it has even opened. A fund operated by German real estate giant DWS acquired the state-of-the-art, 357-bed project in Redcliffe, pictured, for £57m from developer F3Group. The building, which is leased to...
