A butcher, a baker and a bicycle-maker are among the independent businesses set to open in the latest extension to Bristol’s highly successful CARGO retail hub. CARGO – the city’s first retail hub made of converted shipping containers – is already home to dozens of mainly food and beverage...
National property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) has boosted its Bristol-based real estate advisory team with the appointment of Rebekah Formosa as an associate director. Rebekah, pictured, joins from Cushman and Wakefield’s Bristol office, where she worked for more than eight years in the public sector advisory team covering...
Low-cost airline easyJet is to launch direct flights to Stockholm and Athens from Bristol later this year – taking the airport’s tally of European capital cities to 18, the highest in its history. Stockholm and Athens have both been on the airport’s wish list for many years as it...
Bristol-based legal experts working at national law firm Bond Dickinson have advised longstanding client global renewable energy company RES on the sale of a major battery storage project. The 35MW Port of Tyne project was acquired by the Foresight Group, the independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager. This...
Lawyers at international legal firm Osborne Clarke’s Bristol office have advised lastminute.com co-founder Brent Hoberman’s new venture capital firm on the £50m fundraising of its first start-up seed fund. Brent Capital’s Firstminute fund will back early-stage European tech entrepreneurs, particularly in the ‘deep tech’ fields of robotics, artificial intelligence...
Monday 10 July Finals: Accrol, Falanx EGM: Ironveld, SerVision Tuesday 11 July Interims: Amino Technologies, Low & Bonar Finals: Begbies Traynor, Collagen Solutions, Ilika Trading statements: Carillion, Galliford Try, Gocompare.com, Marks and Spencer, PageGroup AGMs: LondonMetric, Marks and Spencer, Palace Capital, Pets at Home, U&I, Young & Co’s Brewery...
Amazon, the online retail giant, is to develop a massive 2.2m sq ft distribution centre at Avonmouth – potentially creating hundreds of jobs in what will be the largest building in the South West. Details of the huge scheme – which will be built next to retail The Range’s...
Bristol firms and individuals operating in areas as diverse as apps, touchless technology and healthcare were among the winners at the SPARKies – the awards celebrating the best of the region’s tech sector. Nick Sturge, director of Bristol’s highly successful Engine Shed enterprise hub, won the Lifetime Achievement title...
UWE Bristol is to award honorary degrees to a number of prominent Bristol business people, including former Airbus chief Iain Gray and Lord Lieutenant Peaches Golding OBE. Also receiving honorary degrees are former British Retail Consortium director general and Business West chair Stephen Robertson and entrepreneur and leading private...
