Start-ups committed to social change are being given the chance to win a desk at Bristol’s ground-breaking workspace Streamline at Paintworks. Streamline owner Ethical Property has launched a ‘Care to Share’ competition offering free office space for a year to a purpose and cause related start-up, giving it the...
Yate-based managed IT service provider Orchard Computer Services has been acquired by a national operator in a £1m deal. Orchard, which has been in business for more than 30 years, has built a loyal base of more than 120 active clients mainly in the South West and across a...
Ultraleap, the Bristol-based hand-tracking software pioneer firm, has made two key appointments – with Rowena Innocent joining in the newly created role of senior vice president (SVP) of engineering and Charlotte Laband as General Counsel. The appointments come as Ultraleap looks to scale its world-leading hand tracking and mid-air...
Law firm Clarke Willmott’s Bristol office is sponsoring a major photographic exhibition in the city that aims to prove age is no barrier to active living. Staged by Active Ageing Bristol on College Green, NO LIMITS#2 is part of Bristol Walk Fest, a campaign to persuade older people to...
Bristol-based brand consultancy Firehaus has landed two major accounts during the first quarter of 2022 as it settles into its new home at Bristol’s Engine Shed innovation hub. The four-person agency was already achieving double-digit growth for gross profits and revenues based on its mission to bring ‘light + heat’...
The project finance team at Bristol-headquartered law firm Burges Salmon has advised on a cross-border financing deal that aims to increase the take-up of solar energy in Kenya. The team worked with Brussels-based EDFI Management Company to secure the multi-million dollar loan facilities for REDAVIA Solar Power, which supplies...
South West accountancy firm PKF Francis Clark’s Bristol office has appointed two new managers, taking its total of new recruits this year to 10 as it continues its rapid growth. The office, which opened just over three years ago, now has a staffing of 46 following the latest arrivals...
Bristol-based tech-focussed investment bank ICON Corporate Finance has hired mobility sector expert Sumeet Pillai. With a background in venture capital, investment banking and corporate development, Sumeet, pictured, has partnered with companies and investors throughout the growth lifecycle from series A and mid-to-late-stage growth to publicly listed companies. He brings...
The advisory consulting practice in the Bristol office of accountancy group Tilney Smith & Williamson has been boosted with the appointment of Lynne Blakey as a director. Lynne, pictured, has 20 years’ experience across restructuring, advisory, audit, risk and internal audit. Most recently she spent four years in...
Monday April 25 Finals: Frenkel Topping Group, Audioboom Group, Arecor Therapeutics Tuesday April 26 Finals: Northcoders Group, Learning Technologies Group Interims: AB Foods, Focusrite Trading announcements: IWG, Taylor Wimpey, Jupiter Fund Management, Flutter Entertainment Wednesday April 27 Interims: AB Dynamics, WH Smith Q1 result: Glaxosmithkline Trading announcements: Network International Holdings, Reckitt Benckiser Group, Aveva Group,...
Bristol’s city centre office market has achieved its highest first-quarter take-up figures on record, according to a new report, while also setting its best-ever headline rent. The remarkable bounce back after two years impacted by the pandemic is revealed in the latest research by the Bristol Office Agents Society,...
Three firms from the Bristol area have won coveted Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, with one of them – the firm behind the innovative Rockit portable baby rocker – collecting two in different categories. N2M, which trades as Rockit and designs, manufactures and markets sleep aid devices for babies and...
Bristol-based renewable energy investment company Thrive Renewables has provided a £4m loan to help build the country’s tallest wind turbine in its home city. With the funding now in place, the community interest company behind the scheme – Ambition Community Energy – can move ahead with its construction. Groundwork...
