Bristol’s maritime heritage has provided the inspiration for fit-out, design and build specialist firm Paramount’s new base in the city while also helping revitalise one of its ‘forgotten’ areas. The company’s design team delved deep into the past of historic Welsh Back, taking a lead from its dockside architecture...
Enable Law, the Bristol-headquartered specialist legal practice, has recruited Stewart Young as a legal director in its clinical negligence team. He will join from London litigation specialist law firm Stewarts, where he specialises in clinical negligence claims involving catastrophic injury. Stewart, pictured, has a background in healthcare disputes having...
A Bristol-based firm and the organisation behind the city’s chamber of commerce have become the first in the country to use a revolutionary new on-line customs tool that can ease post-Brexit complications when exporting to the Europe. Called Genesis, the system validates the origin of goods to make EU...
Independent Bristol accountancy practice Corrigan has relocated across the city centre to new offices – a move that follows its recent rebrand. The firm has swapped its previous home in Lower Park Row for the first floor of 25 King Street in readiness for further expansion. The new office...
Monday October 10 Trading announcements: Sirius Real Estate, Unite Tuesday October 11 Finals: YouGov, SCS Group Interims: Sanderson Design Group, Eneraqua technologies, Smartspace Software Trading announcement: Reach Economic announcements: Retail sales, Claimant count rate Wednesday October 12 Finals: ASOS, Kin and Carta Trading announcement: Novolipetsk Steel Regs Economic announcements: Manufacturing production, Index of services, Balance...
Conservative MPs are going to make life for Prime Minister Liz Truss as difficult as their Labour counterparts did for Jeremy Corbyn when he was their leader, political columnist and broadcaster Ayesha Hazarika told the region’s business leaders last night. Speaking at the South West CBI’s annual dinner, she...
Bristol Technology Festival returns next week with more than 50 wide-ranging events highlighting the city’s technological innovation, talent and sense of community. Each day of the festival, which is staged by information hub TechSPARK, will represent a different theme – Purpose, Protect, People, Play and Pioneer – through interactive seminars, workshops...
Bristol’s office market has bounced back strongly from the impact of the pandemic to achieve the highest take-up figures since 2018, according to the latest research from the city’s property agents. Both city centre and out-of-town markets also show no signs of slowing in the face of recent turmoil...
The basement of a high-profile Bristol office building has been transformed into the city’s first privately-owned ‘James Bond-style’ safe deposit box facility, with the firm behind it saying it is meeting a growing but untapped demand in the city. The Vaults Group, Europe’s largest private safe deposit box provider,...
National full-service law firm Shakespeare Martineau has completed its merger with historic Bristol firm GL Law – expanding its reach into the South West for the first time. As part of the move, announced in May, GL Law will now operate under the Shakespeare Martineau brand. Its Queen Square...
Bristol and London law firm Temple Bright has carried out a rebranding exercise in collaboration with Bath-based design agency Design for Digital. At the heart of the project is a new website for the firm – https://www.templebright.com/ – which includes two new short films aimed at clients and lawyers. Temple...
Fewer than one in 10 businesses in the South West have confidence in the UK’s economic prospects, with a record 73% fearful over the impact of inflation, according to new survey. At the same time the number of firms concerned about exchange rates has doubled, with a third of...
Waste management group Grundon is to create a new regional centre for the West of England after buying a large industrial building in Avonmouth alongside its existing operations in the area. The family-run business has taken over the long leasehold of the 186,000 sq ft property at the Access...
