Bristol businesses are being urged to help make cancer care in the city the best it can possibly be as part of a new campaign which launched this week. Bristol Against Cancer has been started by Above & Beyond, the NHS charity for University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS...
Regional accountancy firm Milsted Langdon, which has an office in Bristol, has rebranded and launched a new website. The firm said the new look demonstrated its commitment to innovation and was built around its core values of helping its clients to thrive while also reflecting its high-quality advice and...
Bristol businesses looking to get cutting-edge ideas off the drawing board and into reality can apply for funding under a new scheme. The Business Innovation Fund – a three-year programme managed by the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) – will provide funding of either £20,000 or £50,000 for...
Bristol-based human resources outsourcing specialist The HR Dept has appointed Sam Ali as the managing director of its franchise covering the city. Sam, pictured, has already set the ambitious target of boosting revenue by 50% during her first year in charge of the HR Dept Bristol, Bath and North...
Global accountancy group PwC has continued to strengthen its financial services and deals teams in the West with three senior appointments. The firm said the arrival of Sam Flitman, Andrew Keenan and Camille Sixsmith would make it even better placed to support financial services clients and businesses through debt...
The Chancellor’s Summer Statement introduced measures aimed at supercharging the ailing UK economy and soon all eyes will be on Rishi Sunak’s Autumn Budget. Considering certain areas before taxes start to rise could bring real benefits to business owners in the long term. Zoe Thomas, tax partner at professional...
Bishop Fleming, the regional accountancy firm with the largest of its seven offices in Bristol, has appointed Angela Appiah Shippey as its new corporate and business services director. Angela joins from Bristol-based accountants FD Works, where she was client director for 18 months. She has more than 22 years’...
An all-Bristol advisory team of lawyers and financial advisers has completed one of the biggest deals of recent years in the UK’s fast-growing pet food industry, despite the challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The sale of Forthglade, the fast-growing ‘posh’ dog food brand, to IK Investment Partners (IK)...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has advised specialist asset-based lender Ultimate Finance Group, which has a base in the city, on a £20m loan-on-loan facility. The capital from OakNorth Bank will help Ultimate grow its bridging loan book, providing essential short-term funding to enable property developers and investors to complete...
The owner of one of the UK’s largest solar power plant portfolios has expanded further with the help of Bristol-headquartered law firm Burges Salmon’s energy sector practice. A cross-firm team advised long-standing client Bluefield Solar on the acquisition and financing of 15 ground-mounted operational solar photovoltaic (PV) plants with...
Firms in the South West are among the most pessimistic in the UK about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, with many expecting to shed jobs when the government’s furlough scheme ends, according to a new survey. The Lloyds Bank Business Barometer, which takes the pulse of 1,200 firms...
Global accountancy group PwC is encouraging around half its Bristol staff to return to its office in the city after installing social distancing measures. The firm, which employs 580 at its regional base at Glass Wharf, pictured, said workers could begin to return on a voluntary basis after the...
Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, has welcomed the launch today of the government’s Kickstart scheme, which offers subsidised job placements to out-of-work young people. Under the £2bn programme, 16 to 24 year olds claiming Universal Credit and at risk of long-term unemployment, will be able to gain...
