Managed IT services firm Bristol IT Company has merged with a Wiltshire-based tech business as both benefit from increased demand linked to home working during the lockdown. Bristol IT Company provides IT services such as IT support, cybersecurity and connectivity to the private small and medium-sized business market with...
More support must be given to protect Bristol’s retail, hospitality and leisure businesses, the city centre Business Improvement District (BID) has said amid a growing threat to jobs in these sectors. The BID fears the government’s furlough scheme is concealing the true picture of unemployment while many city centre...
Bristol’s We The Curious has joined more than 40 other science centres across the UK to call for emergency help from the government as they fight for survival during the lockdown. The Science Centres For Our Future campaign is being supported by some of the UK’s leading science advocates...
Key current themes in pensions were explored in a question-and-answer webinar with an executive director of The Pensions Regulator hosted by Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon. David Fairs, who leads on regulatory policy, analysis and advice at The Pensions Regulator (TPR), was joined by Burges Salmon partners Richard...
Low-cost airline easyJet has resumed flights from Bristol Airport after introducing new bio security measures for passengers and crew. The carrier’s daily service to and from Belfast are the airport’s only flights at present. KLM today said it would restart its service from Bristol to the important hub airport...
A £2.1m refurbishment of Bristol’s tallest office building is going ahead to get it ready for the city’s commuting revolution. A total of 374 new bike spaces are being created at Castlemead, pictured, opposite Castle Park in the city centre, together with cycle hire facilities, 18 new showers, storage...
A year of significant merger and acquisition activity and finance deals has resulted in Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT maintaining its ranking among the world’s top advisers in clean energy. The firm repeated last year’s success in the Global league tables produced by leading industry platform Clean Energy Pipeline,...
A UWE Bristol real estate student is to represent the South West at the national Women in Property Student Awards after the regional heat was staged virtually. Lobbying and networking organisation Women in Property South West decided not to let social distancing get in the way of its 2020...
The Bristol office of international law firm DAC Beachcroft has a new location head. Charlie Bending, pictured, who joined the firm as a trainee in 1994 and became a partner in 2010, was elected unopposed. He will begin his term on July 1 when he will replace Nick Knapman,...
Commercial property consultancy Knight Frank has promoted two members of its Bristol office team. Joanna Crofts, an associate and South West and South Wales head of property asset management (PAM), has been made a partner while Emma Cowlrick is now an associate in the valuations team. Joanna, pictured right,...
Monday June 15 Final: Evgen Pharma Interim: SThree Tuesday June 16 Finals: Ashtead Group, Braemar Shipping, Checkit, Tatton Asset Management, Telecom Plus Interim: Oxford Biodynamics Trading announcement: Joules Group Economic announcements: Unemployment rate, claimant count Wednesday June 17 Finals: De La Rue, Enteq Upstream, Severfield, Wincanton Trading announcement: Dominos,...
Bristol’s businesses have a key role to play in creating a fairer and more just city, the Lord-Lieutenant for Bristol has said as the impact of last weekend’s toppling of the Edward Colston statue continue to be felt. Peaches Golding OBE, pictured, said much had been achieved over the...
A Canadian development company has been linked with the acquisition of one of the largest industrial sites in the Bristol area – and could even make an audacious attempt to lure Elon Musk’s planned electric car ‘gigafactory’ there. The Epta Development Corporation (EDC) of Vancouver is reported to have exchanged...
