Corporate lawyers in the Bristol office of South of England law firm Thrings have advised an insurance market disrupter on its successful first-round funding. Hampshire-based Guardhog specialises in providing ‘pay-per-stay’ cover to the short-term rental market for hosts with their properties on platforms such as Airbnb and Booking.com. Cover...
Monday July 15 Finals: City of London, Northern Bear, Polar Capital Technology Trust Interims: Access Intelligence, Robert Walters Trading announcements: Aptitude, Dp Eurasia, EKF Diagnostics, Finsbury Food, Hydrogen, Instem, Lightwaverf, Mission Mktg, Mobile Streams, Novolip Regs, Rio Tinto, Total Ord Tuesday July 16 Final: Gately Holdings Interims: Cloudcall Grp,...
Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Lauren Couch, principal of BOOST&Co’s Bristol office, answers our 10 questions What was the LAST: Film you watched? Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. I love the Lee Child...
The trend for quirky co-working spaces and serviced offices is beginning to dominate Bristol city centre’s office market, latest figures show, with the three largest deals of the past quarter all involving operators in the rapid-growth sector. The second quarter report by the Bristol Office Agents Society shows 177,633...
Forming a Western Powerhouse stretching from Swindon to Swansea with Bristol at its heart could boost the economy by billions of pounds and create lucrative global trade opportunities, a major report published this week shows. By working together on maior infrastructure schemes and promoting international trade post-Brexit, towns and...
A £100m institute tasked with creating transformational technologies for the future is to be opened on the University of Bristol’s new Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus. In what the university described as a unique collaboration, the institute will act as an international-leading research facility, bringing together its engineers with social...
Former Airbus UK managing director Prof Iain Gray has joined Bristol-based digital engineering specialists The Centre for Modelling & Simulation as chairman. Iain, pictured, is a highly respected figure in UK engineering, having also been chief executive of Innovate UK, formerly the Technology Strategy Board, and Professor and Director...
Bristol’s start-ups and scale-ups have bucked the national trend over the past three months by attracting the lion’s share of venture capital investments made in the city, according to new research into the UK funding market. KPMG’s Venture Pulse survey, published yesterday, shows that more than 70% of deals...
An ambitious development, which could bring up to 1,500 new homes along with commercial and community space to a high-profile city centre entrance site, has moved a step closer with the appointment of design and planning consultancy teams. The huge Frome Gateway scheme is the brainchild of Bristol-based developer...
