Young entrepreneurs looking to grow their business through youth charity The Prince’s Trust have received expert legal advice from the Bristol office of transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson. The legal clinics were staged to deliver insightful and tailored support the fledgling businesses and tackled key legal issues as...
Monday April 16 Nothing listed Tuesday April 17 Finals: JD Sports Fashion, AA Interim: Associated British Foods Trading update: Ashmore Economic announcement: Employment data Wednesday April 18 Trading update: Bunzl, Polymetal, RELX, Rio Tinto, SEGRO, Hochschild Mining, Telford Homes Economic announcement: CPI (March) Thursday April 19 Interims: Sky, Debenhams,...
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 Laura Kerby, chief executive officer of Bristol-based cancer charity Penny Brohn UK, answers our 10 questions What was the LAST: Film you watched? Finding Your Feet with...
Engine Shed on Tour, the latest initiative from Bristol’s highly successful innovation hub, has been launched to encourage young people to follow careers in the West of England’s tech, digital and low carbon sectors. Engine Shed on Tour will visit 16 schools and businesses across Bristol, South Gloucestershire, Bath...
Bristol is set to be the venue for one of the country’s first gyms dedicated to Parkour – the training discipline often associated with urban freerunning – after being selected by an operator based in the city. The sport is already hugely popular around the world and more than...
Bristol mortgage broker Fox Davidson has won one of the most sought-after accolades in the industry – the best small broker in the UK in the 2018 Mortgage Strategy awards. The firm, which was launched five years ago, fought off competition from other UK mortgage brokerages to claim the...
A group of University of Bristol engineers have strengthened the city’s growing reputation as a 5G hotbed by demonstrating their high-level research at a major cyber security conference. Their research into radio wave propagation modelling, smart cities, high-capacity radio waveforms and Gigabit transport connectivity was highlighted at CYBERUK, the...
National law firm Clarke Willmott, which has an office in Bristol, has been ranked at number six in a prestigious list of the highest-rated planning practices for 2018. The Planning Law Survey is an in-depth report based on testimonials by the consultants, developers and officers that use law firms’ services....
Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon has advised long-standing client Gravis Capital Management on its £20m financing of a major energy storage project. The transaction builds on the firm’s market-leading experience in the innovative debt structures needed to fund energy storage projects and their complex revenue streams. The latest...
Bristol and London law firm Gregg Latchams has appointed former Bevan Brittan partner Charles Metherell as managing director of its GL Business Consultancy arm. Charles, pictured, brings with him expertise in turnaround and intervention consultancy, corporate re-structuring and strategic planning. He qualified as a solicitor in 1985 and spent...
Collecteco, the Bristol-based firm that help businesses donate furniture, equipment and materials to good causes, has become the first from the city to join the West of England’s pioneering sustainable technologies programme. Collecteco works with businesses and other organisations to donate reusable furniture, equipment and materials to good causes,...
One of the most inspirational women in technology today is to give the second in a series of talks by high-profile business women later this month. Carole Mundell, head of physics at the University of Bath, will speak at The Gainsborough Bath Spa Hotel’s Phenomenal Women event, part of...
A £6.5m project that will harness the power of innovative digital technology to boost the West of England’s creative, health and manufacturing sectors is to be launched by a consortium of universities, including UWE Bristol, and arts venues including Bristol’s Watershed medias hub. The new Creative Technology Network will...
