Owen Vizard has been appointed as an associate director in Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking’s West complex deal team, which provides specialist advice to mid-market and large corporates on debt-funded transactions. Based at the bank’s flagship regional offices at Canons House, Bristol, he will work alongside director Gavin Reid and...
One of mobile communications giant Everything Everywhere’s major offices at Aztec West has been sold to a group of Middle Eastern investors and London-based investment firm for £19m. The 80,000 sq ft building – 2620 The Quadrant – was formerly part of the North Bristol group of offices occupied...
Naomi Chesterman, an associate in the property litigation team at Bristol law firm Veale Wasbrough Vizards, is the new chairman of the South West branch of Women in Property (WiP). Naomi, pictured, who has been a member of WiP for five years, will serve a one-year term at the...
Monday April 08 FINALS Christie Group, DDD Group, GLOBO, Polymetal International EGMS Hals-Development JSC GDR (Reg S) AGMS Bank Audi SAL (Audi Saradar Group) GDR (Reg S), IMI, XP Power Ltd. (DI) Tuesday April 09 INTERIMS Victrex FINALS Blur (Group), Camkids Group, Concurrent Technologies, Frenkel Topping Group, Good Energy...
The Mayor of Bristol is disputing a survey proclaiming Bristol as Britain’s traffic jam capital with the country’s slowest moving rush-hour vehicles. George Ferguson said the new figures released by sat-nav firm TomTom counted delivery vehicles which make several drop-offs during peak periods. These were counted as separate journeys...
Specialist industrial parts distributor Antifriction Components is investing more than £300,000 in its Bristol logistic and office facilities as it continues to build its national brand. The firm, with more than 90 staff across 12 UK sites, will is opening a 20,000 sq ft warehouse at Pioneer Park, St...
The South West is one of only two UK regions to record growth in the industrial property sector last year, according to the latest report by agent Jones Lang LaSalle. The research shows take-up of industrial and distribution floorspace increased by 2% across the region – much of it driven...
Accountancy firms BDO and PKF (UK) have completed their merger and are now operating as a single business under the BDO brand. The merged firm will invest in the region as part of its growth strategy and although PKF’s Bristol office will now close all its staff are being...
Bristol Airport has become the first in Britain to gain WorldHost Recognised Business status, in recognition of its commitment to welcoming visitors to the South West and Wales. WorldHost is a world-class customer service training programme that has already been used to train nearly 1m people worldwide, including tens...
The Restore Trust, the Bristol-based social enterprise helping the long-term unemployed and ex-offenders back into the workplace, is celebrating three years of success next week. Since its launch it has supported more than 800 clients across Bristol and Somerset, enabling them to achieve vocational qualifications in IT and construction, customer service...
The Bristol office of property agents Knight Frank has acted in the disposal of two South West industrial estates. The office advised London & Westcountry Estates – through an administrator – on the sale of Bridgwater’s Blake Mill Business Park to Parabola Capital for £1.2m. The 29,975 sq ft...
WellBoring, the West charity that drills boreholes for clean, secure water supplies at schools and communities in developing countries, is staging a fund-raising abseil down the Avon Gorge in Bristol later this month. The charity has teamed up with the Rotary Club of Bristol Breakfast Club to organise the...
Fed up with flip charts, PowerPoint and pie diagrams? Bristol Business News’s sister site Bath Business News is presenting an antidote this evening to business seminars as part of Bath Comedy Festival. This free and unique event is for anyone who has ever dozed off during a motivational seminar....
