National law firm Bevan Brittan has announced 14 new appointments in its year-end promotions round – eight of them in its Bristol head office. The promotions include eight legal professionals who have been become senior associates with a further six appointed as associates and are spread across the firm’s...
International law firm Clyde & Co officially opened its Bristol office this week with the aim of making it a ‘platform for growth’ in the region. The office, in the Orega Business Centre on Victoria St, opens with three new partners – two joining the firm’s UK professional and financial...
Andrews Property Group, the Keynsham-headquartered estate agency and lettings business, has landed a raft of prestigious awards at a major industry event in its first year of entering. The ESTAs are held in high regard by the industry as the winners are chosen purely on the results of a...
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Four Bristol firms have this week been celebrating winning the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, the UK’s most prestigious business accolade. The four very different businesses – Ultrahaptics, Ndemic Creations, Thomas Ware & Sons and Census Group – are among 230 companies from across the UK to receive the award...
Bristol robotics firm Open Bionics has launched the world’s first medically certified 3D-printed artificial arms for amputees. After working with NHS England on the first trial of a wearable 3D-printed medical device for children and young people, the firm, based at UWE’s Future Space innovation hub, is to now...
Bristol-based challenger recruitment firm ISL has been named as the UK’s fourth best small business to work for after leaping 20 places up a prestigious workplace culture list. ISL was ranked 24th out of 27 on the UK Best Workplace table last year. Its progress this year has been...
Professional services firm Grant Thornton has launched an innovative collaborative workspace in its new Bristol office. Introduced to the business community at its annual Faces of a Vibrant Economy gallery event, the space re-thinks the traditional office environment and provides groups with a modern and flexible facility to meet,...
Locked In A Room, the escape room venue operator, has relocated and upsized its Bristol outlet to bigger premises at Harbourside. The company has taken a 7,500 sq ft first floor unit overlooking Millennium Square, pictured, part of Canada Life Investments’ Harbourside development, on a new 10-year lease. It...
The competition team at Bristol-based national law firm Burges Salmon has advised the Co-operative Group on securing merger clearance for its proposed acquisition of convenience food store chain Nisa. The Co-op’s unopposed £137.5m bid for the 4,000-plus chain of stores was approved by Nisa members last November but was...
The first two new director posts at the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) have been filled as it continues to develop its senior leadership team. WECA is creating four director jobs in the areas of business & skills, infrastructure, investment & corporate services and legal services, which is...
Innovative law firm Temple Bright is continuing to develop its strong real estate practice in the South West by advising Cooperative retailer Radstock Cooperative Society on the expansion of its property portfolio. The Bristol and London has been working with the Society on the construction and opening of stores...
Bristol-based independent public relations and communications agency AMBITIOUS has landed a major national PR award – thanks to feedback from its clients. The agency, founded in 2013 by Bristol PR stalwarts Lis Anderson and Mel Beeby Clarke, was awarded Best Public Relations Agency (under 40 staff) at the RAR Awards...
