SciSys founder Mike Love has formally stepped back from day-to-day control of specialist software company to become its non-executive chairman. The move was flagged up at the end of October and is part of a boardroom shake-up at SciSys, a leading developer of information and communications technology services, e-business and...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com Bristol technology firm Test and Verification Solutions (TVS) is expanding into the Asia-Pacific region with the opening of an office in India and connections with China and Taiwan. The move will allow the firm to sell its software testing and hardware verification products and services...
Bristol law firm Clarke Willmott has renewed its sponsorship agreement with Gloucestershire Cricket in a deal that will continue to features its branding on players’ shirt collars for LV= County Championship and Clydesdale Bank 40 matches next season. Head of Clarke Willmott’s Bristol office Kevin Jones, who also leads its sports...
Bristol-based tool hire firm Brandon Hire has acquired surveying and construction specialist Phoenix Surveying Equipment. Under the pre-Christmas deal Phoenix, which hires, sells and repairs surveying equipment to customers across the country, will continue as a separately-branded business. The company, founded in 1977, has its head office in Yate...
Jelf Employee Benefits, part of the Yate-based Jelf Group, has been shortlisted for three awards in the Corporate Adviser Awards for 2012. The firm is battling it out in the Healthcare Adviser of the Year, Group Risk Adviser of the Year, and Best Cashplan Solution categories of the awards, which...
A free masterclass in winning a share of 52bn euros of EU funding for R&D is to be held in Bristol early next month. Sponsored by the Enterprise Europe Network South West and the Information Communications Technology Knowledge Transfer Network the masterclass will focus on participation in Framework Programme...
Recruitment specialists Central Appointments have taken space on the 12th floor of newly-refurbished landmark Tower House in Fairfax Street in a deal brokered by Colliers International. Founded in 2000, Central Appointments is part of Angela Mortimer Plc, placing around 2,500 candidates in permanent roles every year and around 1,000 temporary staff on site every...
Bristol-based Mentor Communications Consultancy has appointed Toby Coulsting as operations director to help manage continued expansion. Toby, the son of Mentor training director Tina Coulsting Carter, is a former pupil of Cotham Grammar School, and was previously with City of London employee benefits consultancy and online benefits provider, Bluefin....
Top tier London law firm RPC (Reynolds Porter Chamberlain) opened a Bristol office yesterday with a team of 28 people, including 11 lawyers and three partners. Three further partners and a legal director will be joining in March. The office, which fills an entire floor at Temple Circus, will focus...
Wessex Exploration, the Bristol-based hydrocarbon prospecting company, has won licenses to investigate five exploration blocks in the English Channel off the coast of southern England. The awards by the Department of the Environment and Climate Change will give Wessex and partner NWE Mirrabooka two years to make geological and geophysical studies at...
The organisation that formerly provided help for West of England manufacturers has been officially named as part of a consortium that will now deliver the service on a national basis. SWMAS, originally the South West Manufacturing Advisory Service and more recently MAS-SW, has teamed up with accountants Grant Thornton,...
Bristol-based ethical food business Essential Trading, one of the UK’s largest and most successful worker co-operatives, has marked its 40th year in business by securing a £100,000 investment to install a solar energy system. It brought in North Somerset experts Solarsense to fit the PV system at its Fishponds...
Bristol law firm Burges Salmon has advised on a major drinks industry share acquisition involving Coca-Cola, Heineken and Macedonia’s largest beer and soft drinks company. The €79.1m deal involved the Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company and Heineken buying 41.2% of the minority shares in Pivara Skopje, their joint venture beverage...
