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...
Six tech start-ups run by entrepreneurs from diverse ethnic backgrounds are to be supported under an innovative scheme run by acclaimed incubator SETsquared Bristol. Now in its second year, SETsquared’s Breakthrough Bursary provides bespoke business support, mentoring, strategic advice and coaching, investment readiness training and events as well as...
Mayor of Bristol Marvin Rees has joined the board of city-based natural history documentary maker Plimsoll Productions. The company said his responsibilities as a non-executive director will include providing strategic advice to chief executive Grant Mansfield and the board on matters such as commercial opportunities, talent, diversity and sustainability. ...
Four Bristol-based film companies have received financial support from Channel Four through its fund supporting independent production companies outside London in a significant boost to the city’s reputation as a vibrant and diverse creative centre. The fund, which was launched in October, provides financial assistance for projects underpinned by a...
West of England Firms have slammed government financial support for businesses forced to close during the most recent lockdown as grossly inadequate. Some 54% of businesses that were shuttered during November – including restaurants, cafes and non-essential retailers – said the financial assistance covered less than a quarter of...
Bristol businesses operating in the high-growth agri-tech and marine-tech sectors are being given new opportunities to break into overseas markets by virtually showcasing their products. Agri-tech companies can meet global commercial trade officers from 50 overseas markets on Tuesday at a virtual Meet the Market Expert event. Organised by...
