Corporate healthcare firm Healix Health Services is to expand its presence in Bristol just nine months after opening an office in the city, creating more than 50 jobs as it prepares for its most successful year to date. The firm, which was launched in 1992, acts as a third-party...
The bosses of some of Bristol’s biggest businesses are to get the chance to roll up their sleeves and prepare a spectacular charity banquet to raise £100,000-plus to fight food insecurity in the city. Ashton Gate Stadium has teamed up with celebrated Bristol chef Josh Eggleton to stage The...
Bristol-based granite and quartz worktops supplier Avon Marble is targeting a turnover of £2m-plus after acquiring cutting-edge new equipment, paid for through grant funding. The second-generation family-owned firm secured the near £28,000 from the West of England Combined Authority with the help of specialists at its long-standing accountancy firm Haines...
National law firm Clarke Willmott has expanded its private capital team in Bristol with the appointment of new partner Claire Johnson. Claire, pictured, who has nearly 30 years’ legal and tax experience, joins from the Bristol head office of TLT, where she was a legal director in its private...
A Bristol tech firm developing a way of capturing and recycling microplastics before they can pollute the world’s oceans has received funding of $10m (£7.88m) from investment vehicles backed by movie actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Ashton Kutcher. Matter, which was founded in 2017 by former Dyson engineer and keen scuba...
Rapid-growth tech firms from Bristol are being invited to enter one of the sector’s longest-running annual awards schemes as it prepares to showcase another group of highly successful and innovative companies. Now in its 26th year, the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 ranks the UK’s fastest-growing tech firms based on the last...
Staff from some of Bristol’s largest hotels are to take part in a sponsored charity walk to highlight mental health issues in the hospitality sector. Members of Bristol Hoteliers Association (BHA) – which represents 40 hotels in and around the city with around 4,000 rooms between them – are...
Hopes that small business confidence levels in the South West are bouncing back have been dashed by the results of a new survey, reflecting firms’ concerns over the economic outlook. But while there has been a fall in confidence among the region’s smaller companies, some positive signs have emerged...
More than 350 businesses from across the South West have already expressed an interest in applying for finance from a new £200m regional investment fund just weeks after its launch. The government-backed South West Investment Fund (SWIF), which was unveiled last month by the British Business Bank, aims to...
A director in the pensions team at Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon has been named as one of the top 10 environmental, social and governance (ESG) lawyers in the UK, US and Ireland. Kate Granville Smith is among the ‘distinguished advisers’ for ESG in this year’s Financier Worldwide...
Bristol’s Wake The Tiger, the world’s first ‘amazement park’, is to double in size after receiving a £500,000 investment from a specialist creative sector growth fund. The walk-through experience, pictured, opened just over a year ago at a cost of around £2.5m in a former paint factory in the...
Corporate finance specialists at regional accountancy firm PKF Francis Clark and legal experts from the Bristol office of Clarke Willmott have advised on the sale of one of the UK’s leading independent manufacturers of precision plastic components. Nailsea-based Nylaplas, which firms in a wide range of sectors including aerospace,...
Confidence levels among businesses in the South West have bounced back from the gloom of earlier this year – making the region one of only two to register an increase in optimism. Overall confidence rose five points last month to 34%, while companies in the region became far more...
