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 Chris Miller, managing partner at Bristol law firm Barcan+Kirby, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Nocturnal Animals with Amy Adams and...
Bristol creative agencies Create Health and Stratton Craig have jointly relocated to new city centre premises to accommodate further growth. Create Health, a forward-thinking and innovative creative healthcare marketing agency, was founded in 2004 by Bristol-born entrepreneur Darren Clare. Originally based at Greenway Farm in Wick, due to substantial growth...
The first biotech company to sign up to use UWE’s state-of-the-art Future Space laboratories has moved in. University of Bristol spin-out Pertinax Pharma is developing patent-protected, sustained release technology for chlorhexidine, a common antiseptic. Based on years of research and development from the university’s School of Oral and Dental Science,...
A company specialising in rope access and rigging and a casting agency for young local actors are the latest firms to join the expanding creative hub at Bristol’s Bottle Yard Studios. Figure Nine and Briz Kidz Casting bring two more important production needs that are frequently required by incoming...
Ashfords has become the first major law firm in the West of England to be awarded an Alternative Business Structure (ABS) licence in a move it said paved the way for it to introduce more non-legal business services. The firm, which has offices in Bristol, London, Exeter, Taunton, Plymouth...
Anna Parker, a senior associate in regional law firm Foot Anstey’s Bristol office, has been has been named regional lawyer of the year in an award scheme that champions young professionals in the wealth sector. Anna, pictured, is a member of Foot Anstey’s international private wealth team within the...
Bristol-based foodservice firm Charles Saunders has added nine eco-friendly vehicles to its fleet to meet growing demand. The investment increases the size of the fleet to 35 commercial vehicles. The state-of-the-art trucks have been designed by the firm’s transport manager Colin Bardsley and contain separate compartments, allowing frozen, chilled,...
The family law and divorce team at Bristol-headquartered law firm Burges Salmon has been bolstered with the arrival of senior family lawyers Alison Hawes and Nicky Howarth. Alison Hawes, pictured, will join Burges Salmon as a consultant next February, having previously been a partner in the family law team...
By Mike Lea, managing partner of the Bristol office of accountancy, investment management and tax group Smith & Williamson. Despite no increases in NIC rates being announced in the Autumn Statement, there are changes on the horizon that will see an increase in overall levels of NIC paid by...
SCISYS, the specialist IT group with a base in Bristol, is to acquire German media software firm Annova Systems for up to €27.83m (£23.8m) in a move that will give a strong international boost to its own media & broadcast division. Chippenham-based SCISYS said the acquisition, which it is funding...
Audit, tax and consulting firm RSM has appointed Joanne Webber as an employer solutions director in its Bristol office. Joanne, pictured, specialises in advising clients on domestic employment tax issues and international mobility, covering the impacts for companies and individual employees. She began her career at KPMG in Bristol...
Jeremy Richards, head of the Bristol office of international property agents JLL, said that while the Autumn Statement was had a macro-economic outlook there were some important messages for the regions, including the South West. “Hammond acknowledged that Britain’s economic prosperity is too heavily focused in London and the South East and the announcement...
Regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming, which has an office in Bristol, described Philip Hammond’s first Autumn Statement as a clarion call to industry to be more productive and to make the UK ‘match fit’ for a bumpy Brexit ride ahead. It said the Chancellor’s first fiscal statement promised billions of government...
