Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Charlotte Geeves, executive director of Bristol Old Vic, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, with my eight-year-old son....
Bristol’s tech talent has shone brightly at The SPARKies, the awards that champion the best of the West of England’s tech and digital community. The 17 awards, which celebrate the best start-ups, designs, hardware, people and more, were handed out at a lively ceremony at Bristol event space Propyard...
US cloud-based technology company Pax8 is aiming to create up to 150 jobs in Bristol after achieving 800% annual growth. The global business, which has created a marketplace for IT professionals to buy cloud-based tech products, has already secured coveted unicorn status as a privately held start-up company valued...
Independent planning and research consultancy Nexus Planning is celebrating the success of its new Bristol office, which opened earlier this year and has already generated strong business for the national firm. Nexus, which has four other offices across the UK, opened the base in The Programme Building on All...
Clifton Asset Management, the Bristol-based financial services provider, has hit the acquisition trail just weeks after securing substantial funding to support its ‘buy-and-build’ strategy. The firm has snapped up Aberdeen-based Burnett & Reid Wealth Management in what it said could be the first of four or five acquisitions financed...
The former South West managing director of national PR firm Social has launched a new communications consultancy aimed at place-makers, purposeful businesses and public bodies. Bristol-based Distinctive Communications has been founded by Ben Lowndes, who has taken on all five staff members of Social’s South West team. Under an...
Bristol and London law firm Temple Bright has advised portable traffic equipment firm SRL Traffic Systems through a three-year program of rapid national expansion. Temple Bright’s main role has involved assisting with SRL’s acquisition and management of premises, including depots, across the country. Headquartered in Cheshire, SRL manufactures and...
One of the West of England’s best-known business figures, YTL UK chief executive officer Colin Skellett, has become chair of the regional business organisation behind Bristol Chamber of Commerce. Business West is one of the UK’s most influential business leadership organisations, representing more than 21,000 businesses across the South...
A newly formed company is aiming to revolutionise the way vaccines are stored and transported by producing technology that allows them to be safely used without being kept in a fridge or deep freeze. EnsiliTech, which is about to move to Bristol having spun out from the University of Bath,...
The next Prime Minister and their Chancellor of the Exchequer must take immediate action to help companies cope with the impact of sky-high inflation, the region’s largest business group has said. Latest figures from the Office of National Statistics this week show inflation at a 40-year high of 9.4%....
Regional accountancy firm Milsted Langdon’s Bristol office has helped secure the sale of an innovative battery business at the forefront of the electrification of the aerospace industry. Electroflight’s directors called in Milsted Langdon’s specialist restructuring and insolvency team to advise on the future of the Cheltenham-based business after seeking additional...
A team from the Bristol office of international law firm Osborne Clarke has advised on a deal that could revolutionise the way modern cars and other vehicles are serviced by using advanced diagnostics technology. The lawyers worked with KPIT Technologies, a global partner to the automotive and mobility ecosystem...
BOM IT Solutions, the long-established Bristol-based IT services provider, has recruited a cyber security solutions director to spearhead and grow its new division. The Hengrove-based family-owned business has launched the cyber security division to help protect organisations against the ever-sophisticated techniques of cybercriminals exploiting the vulnerabilities of the hybrid...
