West-based independent property consultancy Alder King has appointed James Nicholas as a partner in its asset management and consultancy teams. Previously a surveyor in Alder King’s professional team for three years, James, pictured, has re-joined the firm after nearly 10 years in senior positions managing the Ashtenne Industrial Fund....
Key innovations that are putting Bristol at the leading edge of global robotics research will be demonstrated to the Duke of York when he visits Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) on Monday. BRL is the UK’s leading and largest academic centre for multi-disciplinary robotics research and home to a vibrant...
Bristol’s reputation as an innovative centre for advanced computing has been strengthened by microchip giant Intel’s decision to select the University of Bristol as its first UK centre for parallel computing. The US tech group is establishing a network of Intel Parallel Computing Centers (IPCCs) across the world with...
Bristol-based vehicle repair firm WBC Automotive has invested £1.7m in the UK’s most hi-tech and eco-friendly workshop, with financial backing from Barclays. The bespoke 20,000 sq ft building on the Caxton Business Park in Warmley, was built to WBC’s exact specifications and houses a state-of-the-art body shop which is...
A new web portal that brings together all the training providers in the South West for the first time has gone live. Skills Junction, developed by the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership’s (LEP) Skills team, was launched earlier this week at a conference in Bristol for educators, skills...
Bristol corporate expertise has helped the successful management buyout (MBO) of a Welsh specialist handling equipment firm. Accountants Grant Thornton’s Bristol-based corporate finance team and lawyers from Bristol law firm Osborne Clarke advised on sale of Mangar International, a world leader in inflatable lifting and handling equipment for the...
Fast-growing London-based cocktail bar group Be At One, which is backed by Piper Equity, is to open an outlet in Bristol – its 22nd venue and third outside the capital. The bar, in a unit on the Clifton Triangle formerly occupied by Hermanos, will open on February 26 and...
The long-awaited plan to build a 12,000 seat arena in Bristol has taken its most significant step towards reality with the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) agreeing to part fund the scheme. The LEP’s board agreed to invest money from a special economic development fund on the basis that the...
Just over half the owners of small and medium-sized businesses in the West are in favour of the Living Wage, according to a new survey. A quarter of these believe the policy will be implemented in their business in the near future, the latest Close Brothers Business Barometer reveals....
Bristol-based specialist creative agency Studio Diva, which has helped market video games such as Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, is about to do battle itself for a major industry accolade. The agency, which specialises in point of sale and marketing materials for the video games, entertainment, leisure...
The controversial privatisation of Royal Mail delivered a major boost to Bristol-based investment managers Hargreaves Lansdown with 27,000 new investors joining to buy shares in the sell-off, it revealed today. In a trading statement to the London Stock Exchange Hargreaves Lansdown said a total of 77,000 new clients signed...
Property agents Savills’ Bristol office has been appointed by developer Cubex to market apartments at the city’s Finzels Reach mixed-use scheme. Some 72 one and two-bedroom apartments will go on sale on February 15 in a move Savills says shows that confidence is returning to the city centre property...
Members of Bristol Junior Chamber will hear a rare first-hand account of the daring World War Two Dambusters bombing raid this evening from the legendary mission’s last surviving crew member. George ‘Johnny’ Johnson, who lives in Bristol, received the Distinguished Flying Medal (DFM) for his role in Operation Chastise...
