Fast-growing insurance broker Brightside Group has bought the corporate headquarters it moved into five years ago – the former Aust motorway services area overlooking the first Severn Bridge. The deal, involving an undisclosed sum, comprises the 14-acre site and the 40,000 sq ft former motorway service area adjacent to the M48 – formerly the...
Bristol City Council has agreed to make a £400,000 bridging loan to Gloucestershire County Cricket Club in what some will see as a last-ditch attempt to hang on to cricket at the County Ground in Ashley Down. The secured loan will be repaid regardless of whether the cricket club...
Housing providers in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset have won new Government funding to bring empty homes back into use. Backed by their unitary authorities, the Bristol Community Housing Foundation, Jephson Housing Association and Alliance Homes, will bring 52 properties back into use over the next three years....
Micrima, the Bristol-based company developing a safe, low-cost system to improve the detection of breast cancer, has attracted a further £900,000 of investment following the success of clinical trials. The company, originally a spin-out from the University of Bristol, has secured fresh funding from a syndicate of experienced business angels...
Harbourside developer Crest Nicholson has topped the Home Builders Federation (HBF) annual customer satisfaction survey for the third consecutive year with 9 out of 10 satisfied with their homes – and more than 90% saying that they would recommend Crest Nicholson to a friend. Chief executive Stephen Stone said: "We have just...
Checkpoints mounted by the police and Bristol City Council at scrap metal dealers in Avonmouth and St Philips earlier this month found that four out of seven lorries carrying waste had no licence to do so. “Metal theft is causing misery to many and we are tightening restrictions on dishonest...
Bristol-based MITIE, the strategic outsourcing and energy services group, has been appointed as the preferred bidder in an on-going tender process for the creation of a transformational partnership to deliver integrated facilities and energy management for Lloyds Banking Group. Under the tender, the chosen supplier will provide Lloyds Banking...
Record Easter bookings have been registered by Bakers Dolphin as economy-conscious people switch from air to coach travel for their holiday break. The company, based in Weston-super-Mare, say its top-of-the-range Gold Coach packages to Lake Garda and the Black Forest have done particularly well. “I think the fact that travellers can just...
Upmarket clothing distributors Toll Global Forwarding have acquired a 10,276 sq ft unit on the Hazelmere Industrial Estate off Third Way, Avonmouth. It includes 412 sq ft of office accommodation along with external car/ lorry parking. Headquartered in Hong Kong, Toll Global Forwarding offers services ranging from traditional freight forwarding...
Young people aged 18-24 now make up nearly a third of all West of England claims for job seekers allowance (29.6%), giving added urgency to a Backing Young Bristol campaign supported by The West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and the Bristol Partnership. A special launch event is to...
Fast-growing Bristol-based payment technology company CreditCall has completed a management buy-out (MBO) for an undisclosed sum. The firm, whose achievements include developing the world's first Chip and PIN card processing application for smartphones, supplies innovative transaction processing services and secure payment technology to international customers. It does this via...
An unnamed local entrepreneur has paid £610,000 for a 1.77-acre site within the Bristol's new Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone. The Silverthorne Lane, St Philips, site is close to the Feeder Canal and includes 10,000 sq ft of offices and warehouse buildings occupied by scaffolding specialists Deborah Services. Commercial property...
The government's new mortgage indemnity scheme is good news for Bristol's economy, say property consultants Jones Lang LaSalle. The NewBuy scheme, which will help banks lend up to 95% of the value of new homes, will enable more first-time buyers to get on to the property ladder thus encouraging...
