Bristol-based Molson Construction Equipment, the UK’s largest distributor of capital equipment, has received a £6.3m investment from BGF to support its growth strategy. Molson will use the funding to build a new national parts centre and additional depots across the UK. Founded in Yatton in 1996 by Jonathan Wilson...
Bristol’s foresight in the 1990s in allowing larger-than-average industrial buildings to go up near Avonmouth has paid off, with two such ‘sheds’ now back on the market, according to a leading commercial property consultant. The warehouses formerly occupied by logistics group Downton as a distribution base for Gaymers Cider...
Business groups are divided over the need for yesterdey’s 0.25% increase in interest rates by the Bank of England. The move, which took the base rate from 0.5% to 0.75%, is only the only the second time the Bank has hiked the cost of borrowing since the economy crashed...
Lawyers in regional firm Thrings’ Bristol office have helped a division of long-standing client Redde Group acquire a Grade A office building and adjoining land as part of its fast-paced expansion. FMG, the UK’s leading independent provider of fleet incident management and specialist vehicle recovery services, is moving into...
Almeda Facilities has won big at a national awards event that champions family businesses. The Keynsham-based firm secured the ‘Best Business to Work For’ and ‘Family Business of the Year’ titles for the South West at the National Family Business Awards. The awards are acknowledged as the...
Bristol Airport’s new chief executive officer Dave Lees took up his post today with a pledge to work with businesses, politicians and local communities to build on the airport’s success and oversee its next phase of growth. Mr Lees, pictured, joins from of Southampton Airport where he was managing...
Bristol’s industrial property sector is enjoying its most significant speculative industrial building period ever while its buoyant city centre office market is about to achieve another record rent. According to a number of recent reports on the city’s commercial property market, Bristol is increasingly competing against larger UK cities...
Businesses and individuals working in the sustainability sector will be able to get an update on Bristol’s pioneering City Leap project at an event next week. Bristol City Council aims to bring in potential partners from across the world to help the city become carbon neutral by 2050. It...
Bristol’s free street art festival Upfest has a larger area to showcase its artists’ talents when it takes place this weekend thanks to the support of a local developer. Firmstone Consortia One’s backing for the event, the largest of its kind in Europe’s, means it can extend further down Bedminster’s East...
Bristol-headquartered national communications consultancy JBP is to move from its Clifton base – its home for 23 years – into the city centre as it gears up for further growth. The firm was launched in 1984 by Jennifer Bryant-Pearson with a single office in Bristol – making it the...
Energy sector experts from Bristol law firm Burges Salmon have advised National Australia Bank (NAB) and Santander UK on the £86m financing of a portfolio of onshore wind projects across England. The Burges Salmon team was led by banking partner Nathan Curtis and provided a wide range of legal...
Bristol has missed out on becoming the home of Channel 4’s new national headquarters but is still in the running to be the location for one of its two creative hubs. Channel 4 said this week that it is still talking to Birmingham, Greater Manchester and Leeds about the...
Long-delayed plans to transform Bristol Temple Meads railway station came a step closer today with a new team appointed to develop a masterplan for it and the wider Temple Quarter. The masterplan will cover a 70-hectare zone around the iconic station, pictured, and includes Temple Island – the site...
