James Durie, the chief executive of the Bristol Chamber of Commerce and Initiative, is to step down from his role after 21 years at the end of this year. James, pictured, who is also an executive director of Business West, the chamber’s parent group and the region’s largest business...
Purposeful Bristol businesses, charities and social enterprises can find out more about place-based impact investment and how it can help tackle local issues and build a thriving regional economy at an event next week. Hosted by Bristol & Bath Regional Capital (BBRC), the free event takes place on Thursday,...
Bristol’s independent street food traders are being invited to apply for space in the hotly anticipated BOXHALL food hall destination, which promises to bring a new urban dining concept to the city when it opens next summer. London-based Boxpark, which operates three high-profile and highly successful street food schemes...
Bristol businesses are being invited to sign up to an innovative project that aims to help close the equality gap in the city and create a fairer future for its young people. Launching next month, OurCity2030 will support young people from low-income households in inner-city Bristol to secure meaningful...
Lawyers from the Bristol office of transatlantic firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) have advised on another major deal in the hospitality sector for long-standing private equity client Piper. It advised Piper on the sale of BBQ smokehouse restaurant group Hickory’s to national pub retailer and brewer Greene King, which plans to expand...
A campaign to help businesses across the West of England reduce their reliance on dirty fossil fuels and embrace a greener future through simple, practical steps has been launched. Bristol-based Action Net Zero’s Beacon of Hope initiative will reach out to firms, as well as communities and individuals, to...
Two empty office buildings on Bristol’s Aztec West business park are to be knocked down and replaced by an industrial warehouse in what is believed to be the first property deal of its kind in the city. Cascade 1 and 2, pictured, which together occupy a 1.96-acre site on...
LCP, the national commercial property and investment company, has expanded its Bristol office with two strategic appointments following a year in which it has doubled in size. Gemma Aldridge and Alec Turner join the team as the firm’s asset management portfolio in the South West and South Wales continues...
Bristol-based café-bar chain Loungers has shrugged off the cost of living crisis and predictions of meltdown in the hospitality sector by chalking up a 17% increase in sales. The group, which operates its outlets under the Lounge and Cosy Club brands, said it was benefiting from the work-from-home trend...
Bristol’s maritime heritage has provided the inspiration for fit-out, design and build specialist firm Paramount’s new base in the city while also helping revitalise one of its ‘forgotten’ areas. The company’s design team delved deep into the past of historic Welsh Back, taking a lead from its dockside architecture...
Bristol’s office market has bounced back strongly from the impact of the pandemic to achieve the highest take-up figures since 2018, according to the latest research from the city’s property agents. Both city centre and out-of-town markets also show no signs of slowing in the face of recent turmoil...
The basement of a high-profile Bristol office building has been transformed into the city’s first privately-owned ‘James Bond-style’ safe deposit box facility, with the firm behind it saying it is meeting a growing but untapped demand in the city. The Vaults Group, Europe’s largest private safe deposit box provider,...
Fewer than one in 10 businesses in the South West have confidence in the UK’s economic prospects, with a record 73% fearful over the impact of inflation, according to new survey. At the same time the number of firms concerned about exchange rates has doubled, with a third of...
