National law firm Foot Anstey has promoted three lawyers to the firm’s partnership, including Mark Greatholder who leads the firm’s commercial energy practice from its Bristol office. Taking effect from 1 May, the promotions will bring the total number of partners at the firm to 66. Joining the partnership...
Bristol’s financial services businesses are being encouraged to become more innovative through a pioneering programme launched this week by the city’s two universities. The pilot project, which is supported by a number of key tech organisations and businesses in the region, aims to get firms in the sector to...
An investment programme that has already injected £2.5m into more than 100 Bristol social enterprises is to launch a second transformative round of funding and support to help more businesses in the sector. The additional £1.3m will help the firms become stronger and more sustainable through bespoke investment packages...
A grassroots refugee charity in Bristol is calling on businesses in the city to help it find a new home for the work it does supporting more than 5,000 displaced and vulnerable people. Aid Box Community (ABC) was founded nine years ago in response to the global refugee crisis....
A multidisciplinary team of lawyers from Ashfords has worked on the sale of a long-running UK marine technology business to a major US-owned industrial group. Ashfords, which has an office in Bristol, advised the shareholders of Devon-based Valeport on its takeover by a subsidiary of California-headquartered Teledyne Technologies Incorporated....
Accountancy firm Haines Watts has strengthened its leadership team in Bristol with the appointment of Clare Boden as corporate tax director. Clare, pictured with Haines Watts director Andrew Jordan, managing partner Matthew Bracher and director Conor O’Sullivan, has joined from Evelyn Partners’ Bristol office, where she worked for nearly four years,...
Monday April 15 Finals: Engage XR Holdings, Itaconix, Ceres Power Holdings Trading announcements: Kainos Group, Berkeley Group Holdings Tuesday April 16 Finals: Gresham Technologies, Next 15 Group, Equals Group, Accesso Technology Group, Billington Holdings, Ashtead Technology, Learning Technologies Group, Team17 Group Interim: Gattaca Q3 result: Petra Diamonds Trading announcements: Integrafin...
Each week Bristol Business News gives a member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Dirty Jack co-founder and video producer Hayden Brown answers our 10 questions. (Warning: Some of Hayden’s answers contain strong language and themes of an adult nature!) What was the LAST: Film...
Office rents in Bristol city centre are set to soar by more than 17% to a record high this year due to a shortage of prime space. Property agents in the city believe an increase to £50 per sq ft is “very realistic” as a growing number of firms...
Highly complex projects aimed at easing the climate emergency, such as harvesting solar energy from space and harnessing the power of hydrogen, are to be made easier thanks to a new high-performance computing (HPC) system being developed in Bristol. Digital engineering consultancy The Centre for Modelling and Simulation (CFMS), based...
Bristol Airport has acted as the test bed for a ground-breaking project showing how hydrogen can be safely used to power ground support equipment such baggage tractors. Information gathered from the year-long trial, the first of its kind at a major UK airport, will form the basis for a...
A pioneering Bristol-based start-up Celltris has received a second round of funding as it accelerates its mission to develop more effective, cheaper electric vehicle batteries. The £800,000 combined equity and grant investment means the firm has now raised more than £1.3m to launch a battery development and cell prototyping...
Budget airline Ryanair has launched its biggest-ever schedule from Bristol Airport for this summer, with 36 routes, including six new destinations. Copenhagen, Fuerteventura, Marrakesh, Prague, Sofia and Tirana have been added to the airline’s route network from the airport following the addition of a fifth aircraft to s Bristol-based...
