Bristol architecture firm Childs+Sulzmann has promoted associates Matt Parsons and Mike Cox to board-level directorships as part of a wider strategy to structure the business for further growth. The firm was launched more than 20 years ago and has become one of Bristol’s leading architectural practices, noted particularly for its designs...
West of England businesses are a step closer to being able to choose their water and sewerage suppliers following a move by Bristol Water and Wessex Water. The two utilities have applied to the Secretary of State at Defra for permission to exit the water and wastewater non-household retail...
Faithful+Gould, the project and programme management consultancy, has bolstered its Bristol office with the appointment of Mathew Wilson as regional director to lead its project management team. Joining from Sweett UK, where he worked for nearly four years, Mathew, pictured, brings with him more than 25 years’ experience in...
Bristol communications consultancy purplefish has appointed a new account executive to support the ongoing expansion of the business. Alice Bradshaw-Smith, pictured, joins to assist with client and media relations and content generation, after graduating from the University of Bristol with a first-class honours degree in Politics and Spanish. She has...
Commercial property specialists Bruton Knowles has appointed UWE graduate surveyor Rhys Jones to its Bristol team – the latest recruit from the university. Rhys, pictured, originally from Mid-Wales, is familiar with the Bristol area and is already involved in valuations, agency, and landlord and tenant instructions reporting to head...
David Pester has been re-elected as managing partner of Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT for a further three-year term by a unanimous vote of its 100-plus partners. The term, which starts next April, will be his sixth – a feat almost unprecedented in the legal sector – and will...
National construction group BAM has appointed Tim Chell to head its Bristol-based Western region. Tim, pictured, previously led BAM’s Welsh business where, during his 10 years in the Cardiff office, he led 26 projects with a combined value of more than £300m. The Western region, which has its head office at...
The Bristol office of international real estate advisor Savills has expanded its property management team with the appointment of Lauren Reynolds as a surveyor. Lauren, pictured, joins from Bristol-based chartered surveying firm Hartnell Taylor Cook, where she spent five years as property manager. During this time she gained experience...
Monday 31 October Trading statements: Centamin, CNH Industrial, Senior, WPP AGM: Sacoven Economics: GfK consumer confidence, Net consumer credit, Net lending secured on dwellings, Mortgage approvals, M4 money supply Tuesday 1 November Interims: Falanx Group, First Derivatives Final: Egdon Resources Trading statements: BP, Concentric, Go-Ahead Group, Hastings Group, Moneysupermarket.com,...
Innovative Bristol tech start-up YellowDog has become the first business to gain funding from a recently launched private equity club in the city. The £425,000 of investment capital from Bristol Private Equity Club (BPEC) came as YellowDog scooped one of the top prizes at this year’s Oracle OpenWorld event...
A flexible online tool kit has been developed in Bristol that gives developers, planning consultants and architects much more control over the often-difficult public consultation process. Called Consulting You, it allows developers, planning consultants and architects to meet their engagement obligations, speed the consent process and deliver better developments....
The UK’s first Festival of Leadership is to be staged in Bristol with the theme ‘rethinking leadership for an uncertain world’. The festival on November 18 is the result of collaboration between UWE and the London-based Leadership Centre. Its three key streams will be innovation, resilience and people, place &...
An ambitious campaign to improve the life chances of 300 young people from inner-city Bristol by supporting them into work, further education or self-employment is to be launched next week. The #Change300Futures campaign is being coordinated by Babbasa, the award-winning Bristol-based youth social enterprise, through a unique development programme...
