Bristol law firm TLT has advised on the sale of Chippenham-based specialist software group Preactor to Siemens in a deal that will enable the German industrial giant to further expand into the software market. The Preactor Group, which has bases in North America, India, France, Spain and China, specialises...
Bristol’s newly-launched Beerd Brewery is planning to shake up the beer market with a quest to offer drinkers the most interesting – and intriguing – pint around. The brewery uses unusual ingredients such as chilli, liquorice and vanilla to ensure its beers stand out from the crowd, with each...
UWE Bristol has secured outline planning permission for its vision to build a university for the 21st Century. The masterplan aims to satisfy UWE’s changing needs over the next 25 years with a range of building proposals supported by the necessary infrastructure. The proposals will transform the way the...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT today announced a 10% increase its annual turnover to £49m in the financial year 2012/13 and revealed it is to open an office in Manchester as it continues to grow acfross the UK. The firm said the move supported its strategy of having a...
The Basecamp Project, a business start-up scheme run by students for students at the University of Bristol, last night won the Best Student Enterprise Experience Award at the SETsquared student enterprise awards. The project, supported by the university’s research, enterprise & development division, has provided support to almost 100...
Bristol’s prime commercial property sites will be in the spotlight next week when around 50 mostly London-based fund managers, developers and other investment professionals get a whistle-stop tour of the city. The event, organised by Bristol property consultants Hartnell Taylor Cook, will highlight the major transactions that have occurred...
Bristol firms are being encouraged to put ‘green’ at the heart of their business and enter a competition that ties in with the city’s BIG Green Week. Firms have until 5pm today to register their application and have a chance of winning the title Greenest Business in the South...
Real signs of recovery are emerging among West businesses, with 35% of small and medium-sized firms having more customers in the first quarter and a similar percentage finding lapsed customers are returning, a new survey shows. The latest figures in the Business Factors Index, produced by independent invoice finance...
Mandy Rose, the producer of award-winning digital media initiatives including the BBC’s ground-breaking Video Nation project has been appointed as director of UWE Bristol’s Digital Cultures Research Centre (DCRC). The centre, in Bristol’s Watershed, brings together art and design, computer science, cultural and media studies to explore how people...
