Bristol-based healthcare marketing and advertising agency Create Health has received a £500,000 loan from specialist lender Creative Growth Finance to fund further international growth. The firm plans to double in size over the next five years following a management buy-out (MBO) earlier this year. The loan from Creative Growth...
Specialist PR and digital communications agency bClear Communications has doubled in size with the appointment of three new team members. Simon Peevers has joined as senior account manager, Jack Hayes as account manager and Hannah Price as account executive. The Portishead-based agency specialises in financial services, technology, property and...
Investment group BGF has appointed Georgie Stratton to its growing Bristol team. Georgie, pictured, has taken up a direct origination role focusing on sourcing new investments and bolt-on acquisitions for portfolio companies across BGF’s Bristol, Reading and Cardiff offices. She joins from the Bristol office of accountancy group PwC,...
The Bristol office of transport planning, engineering and placemaking consultancy PJA has appointed award-winning chartered landscape architect David Moores as technical director in its placemaking team. David, pictured, brings 30 years’ experience of public realm and street design to the firm, which also has bases in Birmingham, Manchester, London, Reading,...
More than 30 of Bristol’s cultural venues have received vital funding under a £1.57bn government scheme to help them survive the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and secure their future. Among the diverse list, which spans music, visual art, theatre and film, are cinema and media centre Watershed, which...
Buy-and-build opportunities for tech firms in the post-Covid world are to be explored at a webinar jointly staged by Bristol-based tech-focused investment bank ICON Corporate Finance and city-headquartered national law firm TLT. A panel of leading international acquirers will look at tactics and best practices, as well-capitalised private equity...
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Bristol’s office market is proving resilient despite uncertainties triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report, with take-up so far this year in line with the five-year average. Latest figures from the Bristol Office Agents Society show strong demand for good quality space and suggest that occupiers...
New support for firms forced to close by law because of coronavirus restrictions announced this afternoon by Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been welcomed by Business West, the organisation behind Bristol Chamber of Commerce. The scheme, under which the government will pay two-thirds of the wages of staff working for...
Bristol-based customer experience services firm Anana has been sold to a fast-growing group aiming to be the leading player in the industry across the European market in a deal secured by Momentum Corporate Finance. Anana, which was founded in 2001 and now employs more than 100 people at its...
A pair of Bristol-based event industry businesses have joined forces to stage virtual corporate events as Covid-19 continues to put paid to physical gatherings. Technical event supplier SLX Hire & Events and event management company Alastair Currie Events have already received bookings for the service, which they say keeps...
Bristol-based Ultraleap has launched a new tool that harnesses its pioneering touchless technology to eliminate the need for people to touch interactive screens to buy tickets and other products in places such as railway stations, hotels and airports. With the majority of people anxious about touching screens due to...
Bristol Airport, airlines and regional business leaders have welcomed the government’s decision to launch a global travel taskforce to investigate ways of introducing Covid-19 testing for travellers arriving at UK airports. But there has also been criticism of delays by ministers in getting to this stage when other countries,...
