The achievements of business figures from Bristol along with those from the city’s not-for-profit and cultural sectors have been recognised in the 2023 New Year’s Honours list. Louise Mitchell, pictured, chief executive of iconic live entertainment venue Bristol Beacon, has been named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire...
Channel 4 is set to expand its Bristol creative hub following the government’s U-turn over controversial plans to privatise the broadcaster. Culture Secretary Michele Donelan yesterday confirmed that the sale – a flagship policy of her predecessor Nadine Dorries – was being abandoned. Instead, Channel 4 will be allowed...
Bristol will have one of the fastest-growing employment rates of any UK city later this year when the country emerges from recession, according to a new report. Research carried out for law firm Irwin Mitchell shows Bristol’s economy is expected to achieve annual growth of 0.7% by the fourth...
Confidence among South West businesses continued to rise in December after a surprise recovery the previous month – with firms ending the year in a rare upbeat mood. The latest monthly Business Barometer from Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking reveals firms reported higher confidence in their own business prospects month-on-month, up 15 percentage points at 34%. Taken...
The private equity team at national law firm Foot Anstey, which has an office in Bristol, ended a successful 2022 by advising on another major cross-border acquisition. The team supported fast-growing mid-market private equity firm Stanley Capital Partners (SCP) on its takeover of US specialist analytics firm Commonwealth Informatics...
Accountancy giant EY is to open a business research innovation technology and engineering (BRiTE) hub in Bristol to help boost the South West’s fast-growing FinTech sector. The hub, in EY’s Bristol office in The Paragon, aims to ramp up capabilities in financial services design, data analytics and engineering and...
Bristol-based renewable energy software company Sennen has appointed Mike Young as a senior consultant. Mike, pictured, first met the Sennen team when he was operations manager at London Array, the 175-turbine wind farm 20km off the Kent coast. The project was the first to deploy Sennen’s highly specialised offshore wind...
Water2business, the specialist retailer co-owned by Bristol Water, has extended its partnership with UK-wide café chain Coffee#1 for a further two years. Having set up the agreement two years ago, Nailsea-based Water2business will continue to provide water and wastewater services to 84 of Coffee#1’s 100 sites. The firm’s dedicated...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon has been shortlisted in three categories of a major awards scheme that celebrates excellence in the UK pensions industry. The firm is in the running for the Diversity, Innovation and Pensions Law Firm of the Year titles at the Pensions Age Awards 2023. ...
FinTech West, the advisory body for the region’s burgeoning financial technology industry, has appointed two new members to its advisory board in a move to help mobilise more firms in the sector in the South West. The appointments of PwC director Katharine Adlard and NatWest senior relationship manager Louis...
The British Business Bank, the government’s economic development funder, has appointed former professional rugby player Edward Tellwright as a senior manager covering the South West. Edward, pictured, brings many years’ experience of working with smaller businesses in the region to access finance outside of his playing career with Sale...
The boss of the South West’s largest business group has urged firms to ‘stay positive’ this year in the face of huge challenges. Phil Smith, managing director of Business West – which runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce – also said companies could benefit in 2023 by being based in...
International law firm Osborne Clarke’s Bristol office has boosted its standing in the renewables sector by advising on another major deal involving a battery storage project. A team led by corporate partner Chris Yeo advised investment company The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) on the acquisition of the entire equity...
