BRAVE Enterprise, the not-for-profit business advice organisation in Bristol, is holding a free workshop to help aspiring entrepreneurs start their own business. The Thinking About Business course takes place at The Coach House, 2 Upper York Street, Bristol BS2 8QN on December 13. It is aimed at anyone considering...
Lawyers from the Bristol office of international legal practice Osborne Clarke have helped on the €22.5m (£19.8m) refinancing of a portfolio of six UK solar farms. In the deal Aberdeen Standard Investments provided a long-term, 18.5-year debt financing for Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PiP) – the specialist manager established to...
Bristol specialist tech firm Pertinax Pharma is launching its antimicrobial products into the commercial market after a year of growth and development. The company, founded in 2015 by Reader in Biomaterials Dr Michele Barbour, has created a slow-release technology that provides controlled and sustained delivery of the antiseptic chlorhexidine. ...
Bristol’s economy could benefit from aspects of the government’s long-awaited Industrial Strategy, announced this week, three key figures in the city’s business community have said. But there was also disappointment at the lack of detail in some of initiatives and a need for more engagement with the business community...
Bristol advisers from law firm Burges Salmon and wealth management and broking corporate firm WHIreland have advised FB Investors on its recommended partial cash offer for Devon-based property group Sutton Harbour. The offer from FB Investors values Sutton Harbour, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market,...
The Bristol office of international law firm Womble Bond Dickinson has staged a Christmas Fayre promoting the work of young entrepreneurs as part of its on-going support for The Prince’s Trust. Artists, illustrators, jewellers and landscape architects had the opportunity to display their arts and crafts while visitors enjoyed...
Some of the Bristol’s leading PR agencies, in-house teams and individual practitioners were among the winners at the CIPR South of England and Channel Islands PRide Awards. Staged in Bristol by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) but covering a region that reaches from Cornwall to Kent, the...
Specialist agency Diva has scooped two prestigious national industry awards for work on the launch of Sony Interactive Entertainment UK’s Horizon Zero Dawn videogame. The Bristol-based lifestyle-centric creative agency – which works in the entertainment, leisure, sport, videogames and fast-moving consumer goods markets – landed the accolades at the Creative Out of...
Bristol-based journalist Andrew Lynch has been awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Business Administration by UWE in recognition of his contribution to business and academic-business engagement. Andrew, pictured, 58, has served as assistant business editor of The Sunday Times since 2009. He graduated from Bristol Polytechnic (now UWE),...
