National law firm Irwin Mitchell Private Wealth has appointed solicitor Laura Podger to its Bristol family law team. Laura joins from regional firm Royds Withy King’s Bath head office, having qualified as a solicitor this year. She has previous experience working in corporate and medical negligence law and now...
South West private commercial property consultancy ETP has appointed Alastair Kimpton and Edward Le Masurier as partners as the market continues to expand. Alastair joins the firm, which has offices in Cotham Hill, Bristol and Chepstow, after a five-year stint with Jones Lang LaSalle (now JLL). He specialises in development consultancy and commercial valuations,...
South West law firm Ashfords, which has one of its six offices in Bristol, is to merge with single-location Thames Valley firm Boyes Turner next year. The result of the link-up, which is likely to take place on May 1, will be a combined firm with 100 partners, around...
Monday December 3 Economic announcement: Manufacturing PMI (November) Tuesday December 4 Final: ITE Interims: Northgate, Hewlett Packard Enterprises Trading update: Ferguson Economic announcement: Construction PMI (November) Wednesday December 5 Interim: Stagecoach Trading update: Saga Economic announcement: Services PMI (November) Thursday December 6 Interim: DS Smith Trading updates: Legal &...
Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Chris Holland, managing director of Waste Source, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? The Social Network. Book you read? I’m not...
A former industrial building in Bedminster ‘re-imagined’ as an artist-led contemporary art gallery officially opens next Friday. Kosar Contemporary on Malago Road is the largest independent art space in Bedminster and has been established in a 6,000 sq ft former light industrial factory by visual artist Zarabéa Esfendiar Kayani...
Last-minute tickets for next week’s Lord Mayor of Bristol Children Appeal Carol Concert are still available. The event, at the new look St George’s, takes place on Thursday, December 6 and will be raising funds for the appeal, which supports 1,650 families in the city with food, clothes and...
A pioneering app that helps drivers find an on-street parking space and so help tackle congestion has chosen Bristol for its launch. The crowdsourced data-led app, called Parklook, goes live on Tuesday (4 December) with the aims to be one of the easiest, safest and fastest ways to improve kerbside...
Two expanding businesses have helped set the pace for the North Bristol office market, filling a recently-refurbished building and setting what is believed to be a new record rent for business space out of the city centre. Global logistics company Agility has taken the 6,000 sq ft South building...
Bristol’s pioneering Watershed cinema and media centre has revealed ambitious expansion plans that would add four new floors above the existing building and create workspace for more than 100 creative entrepreneurs. Under the scheme, pictured, the Harbourside building will increase in size by nearly half from 4,400 sq m...
ForrestBrown, the Bristol-based specialist R&D tax credit consultancy that has grown into the largest of its kind in the UK, has expanded into London by opening an office in a landmark building in the heart of the City. The move, which aims to boost its already strong links in...
Fast-growing Bristol energy firm OVO is to take on the 290,000 customers of Scottish rival Spark Energy, which has gone out of business. OVO has also acquired Spark’s operating company – with more than 300 staff based mainly at Selkirk in the Scottish Borders – and will retain the...
The shortage of workers in Bristol and the West of England with cyber skills is to be addressed through a major new scheme to be launched next week. Called Do Cyber, it will help raise awareness, create and deliver opportunities for young people so they can develop the necessary...
