National law firm Excello has made its first move into the Bristol legal market with the appointment of an experienced property dispute resolution specialist based in the city. Sarah Taylor, pictured, has joined the firm from the Bristol head office of Burges Salmon, where she was a senior associate...
Passenger numbers at Bristol Airport soared to their highest ever last year as it confirmed its status as the UK airport with the fastest recovery from the pandemic. Some 9.8m people passed through the terminal in 2023 – a 10% increase compared to pre-Covid-19 pandemic levels in 2019. The...
Bristol-based all-day café/bar group Loungers has repeated its ambition to open a record 34 new venues in its current financial year in the week it achieved the landmark of launching its 250th outlet. The group, which opened its first Lounge on North Street in Bedminster nearly 22 years ago,...
Businesses working in the development sector in and around Bristol must learn how to overcome a range of obstacles if they want their schemes to go ahead, an event staged by law firm Thrings’ city office has heard. These include understanding the influence of local and national policies as...
Nearly 4,000 companies in the Bristol area are in ‘significant’ financial distress as the economy continues to teeter on the brink of recession, according to a new report. The 12% increase on the previous quarter shows stubbornly high interest rates and inflation alongside weak consumer confidence and rising and...
Private equity and investment firm Maven Capital Partners has strengthened its presence in Bristol to support its delivery of the £200m South West Investment Fund (SWIF). Launched last July by the British Business Bank, WIF aims to boost the supply of finance to small and medium-sized businesses across the...
A brewery on Bristol’s outskirts has installed hundreds more solar panels on its roof to harness as much renewable energy as possible for beer production. Hare Brewery at Warmley, which is owned by Cornish brewing and pub group St Austell, will now be able to generate an additional 230,511kWh...
Green technologies such as carbon capture and heat networks could be introduced into Bristol’s largest industrial area as efforts are stepped up to decarbonise its traditional business activities. Some £750,000 has been secured by an 11-strong consortium led by the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) to draw up...
Bristol city centre will suffer from an acute shortage of top-end office space over the next 12-18 months due to a lack of major development, according to property agents. As a result, office rents, which stayed level last year, are expected to rise sharply as occupiers compete for the...
Nine in 10 mid-sized firms based in the South West shrugged off the national economic gloom last year to achieve their forecasted growth, according to a new survey. Now nearly a third plan to launch new products or services to continue to expand this year, despite challenges linked to...
Phoenix Wharf, the Bristol-based design agency specialising in hospitality and retail, has completed work on a unique café that combines ancient Eastern tea-drinking and contemporary Western coffee cultures. Called Oricha – a name that combines the start of the word ‘original’ with ‘cha’, Chinese for tea – the venue...
Regional law firm RWK Goodman is to open a permanent base in Bristol nearly five years after launching a satellite office in the city. The Bath-headquartered firm employs more than 570 across its office network, which also includes Swindon, Oxford and London. It opened a small office at 33...
The government announced its Simpler Recycling scheme last October aimed at reforming the waste system in terms of collections and accepted materials. These changes aim to dispel any confusion regarding recyclable and non-recyclable materials and provide consistency in recycling practices for homes, workplaces, and schools across England. As we...
