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 Sue Marchant, a director of business growth consultancy Cool Ventures, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? The Martian with Matt Damon....
Bristol Grade A office scheme One Cathedral Square has been sold for £33.5m in a deal that property industry figures say reflects the strength of the city’s market but also the marked shortage of prime space. The 56,000 sq ft three-storey building – which is fully let to the...
Bristol-based automotive parts firm Sanoh UK Manufacturing has celebrated 25 years of trading at its Avonmouth site. The Japanese-owned firm, which makes brake and fuel lines for major car manufacturers, opened its factory off Fourth Way in December 1992 – initially to supply Honda’s then new car plant in...
An app developed by a group of employees at the Bristol HQ of specialist financial services group Computershare could potentially save lives in an emergency similar to the Grenfell Tower fire, judges of a competition have said. The app, which won the contest, was created as part of a...
Pioneering Bristol pie firm Pieminister has teamed up with Bath Ales, selecting its flagship Gem bitter as a key ingredient for a number of its products. The premium amber ale, which is made at Bath Ales’ brewery at Warmley, on Bristol’s outskirts, is being used by Pieminister in its...
National property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) has boosted its Bristol-based South West building consultancy division with the appointment of David Bridges as an associate director. David, pictured, arrives after six years in LSH’s Northampton office, where he worked across the full spectrum of building consultancy services. He joined...
Bristol’s oldest retail centre, The Arcade in Broadmead, is almost fully let for the first time in many years having repositioned itself in the marketplace. The relatively small shop units in the Grade II listed scheme, which is almost 200 years old, meant it lost popularity among bigger retailers...
Two more businesses – one of the UK’s leading special effects firms and a newly launched professional film and TV makeup stockist – have taken up residence at Bristol’s Bottle Yard Studios’ creative hub. MTFX, which has its headquarters in Gloucester, produces special effects for TV, film and events...
Bristol’s standing as a leading global music city was underscored this week when iconic record shop Rough Trade opened in the city centre. The store at New Bridewell on Rupert Street, pictured, is only Rough Trade’s fourth in the UK and fifth worldwide. It has two outlets in London,...
Marketing agency Creation has relocated to Bristol city centre and continued to grow with the support of a five-figure finance package from HSBC. The full-service agency, which employs 30 people, moved from Ham Green on the outskirts of the city to St Georges Court in St Georges Road. ...
Regional construction firm Beard has officially opened its new Bristol office to coincide with the end of its 125th year of business. Swindon-headquartered Beard, which also has offices in Oxford and Guildford, acquired Langford Lodge, a Victorian building on Pembroke Road, Clifton, two years ago. Previously occupied by international...
Bristol is set to be one of the UK’s fastest-growing cities over the next three years, outpacing London and Birmingham, according to new research. With Gross Value Added (GVA) predicted of 2.3% – well above the national average of 1.8% – the city will be only slightly behind the...
R3, the insolvency and restructuring trade body, has appointed Bristol-based accountant Louise Durkan as the new chair of its South West and Wales region. Louise, pictured, an insolvency practitioner with more than 20 years’ experience in restructuring, is the financial advisory and restructuring director at accountancy group Deloitte, where...
