West-based accountancy firm Bishop Fleming, which has a major office in Bristol, has achieved another year of expansion with fee income up by more than 3% to almost £17m. The increase follows two years in which Accountancy Age magazine ranked Bishop Fleming as Britain’s fastest-growing accountants. As a result...
Bristol Water has awarded its £20m-a-year network maintenance services programme contract to national building and civil engineering group Kier. The contract, which starts on October 1, is for five years with a potential five-year extension. Works include repairs and maintenance, metering, new connections, developer mains, trunk mains support and...
Accountancy firm Smith & Williamson’s Bristol-based corporate finance team has completed three significant national and international deals worth a combined £100m-plus as market activity continues to recover. The firm said the trio of transactions reflected a growing appetite from trade and private equity buyers for high-quality businesses. Smith &...
National commercial property specialist firm Sanderson Weatherall has relocated its Bristol following substantial growth since it arrived in the city two years ago. The team, which has grown from two to 13 over two years, has moved into a 2,000 sq ft office in Queen Square from its former...
Commercial property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) is expecting further growth for its Bristol-based public sector division following the appointment of Jaime Blakeley-Glover as regional director. Jaime, pictured, who joined LSH in 2011, takes on the role alongside his current national position of consultancy director within public sector services....
Bristol law firm Burges Salmon has advised the troubled Co-operative Group on the £249m sale of its farms to health charity the Wellcome Trust, which was announced this week. The high-profile transaction involved a strong team from Burges Salmon led by corporate partner Nick Graves and real estate partner...
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Wriggle, the Bristol-based app that connects users to exclusive, on-the-day discounts at bars and restaurants, is to expand into London and Manchester after hitting its investment target of £130,000 on crowdfunding website Seedrs. The funding, from more than 160 individual investors, takes the innovative start-up a significant step along...
BBC Radio Bristol is to launch a new breakfast show in September which will team up presenters Steve LeFevre and Laura Rawlings. According to the BBC the show, which will start on September 1, will bring a “fresh new sound to the mix of strong local journalism, traffic and...
International provider of professional services to the resources and energy sectors WorleyParsons has relocated its Bristol office to position itself for further growth. The firm has taken just over 4,300 sq ft of recently-refurbished space on the second floor of the waterfront Bull Wharf office building on Redcliff Street....
A garden centre business owned by the same family since opening in 1884 is future-proofing itself against spiraling energy costs and enhancing its green credentials after securing £400,000 funding from Barclays. Whitehall Garden Centre at Lacock near Chippenham, which also owns and operates Bristol’s Whitchurch Garden Centre, is installing...
Bristol aerospace giants Airbus and GKN received a boost today when British Airways group International Airlines Group (IAG) converted options to buy eight Airbus long-range A350-900 aircraft into firm orders for its Spanish airline Iberia. The airline becomes a new customer for the fast-selling A350 XWB (extra wide body),...
One of the UK’s largest energy efficiency schemes is to be launched in Bristol, creating 50 jobs and offering advice to every home and business on how to reduce their fuel bills and save money. Under the ambitious multi-million pound project announced today, every property in the city will...
