Commercial interiors specialist Paramount is to open an ‘Instagrammable’ office in Bristol, creating up to 20 jobs, as it strengthens its presence in the city and across the South West. The Cardiff-headquartered firm said the base on Welsh Back would be one of the city’s ‘most aesthetically-pleasing’ office schemes to ensure...
Bristol-based engineering business Avon Group has made its third acquisition in less than two years as it consolidates its position as a major player in the UK’s industrial component manufacturing sector. The addition of Acousta Products means Avon is now made up of nine individual companies based around the UK...
Bristol-based electric vehicle charge point mapping app Zap-Map has partnered with motoring organisation the RAC as it seeks to power ahead in the fast-growing market. The firm, which is majority owned by renewable energy group Good Energy, is already the UK’s top app of its kind with 660,000 downloads...
Lloyds Bank has added to its senior team in the South West with the appointment of regional director Amanda Dorel. Amanda, pictured, brings with her more than three decades of banking and commercial finance experience. In her new Bristol-based role she will work on enhancing Lloyds’ support for its...
The restructuring and insolvency team from the Bristol office of accountancy firm Milsted Langdon joined the clean-up the city’s harbour as part of an ongoing charity campaign. The six specialists took to the water despite overcast conditions and the odd downpour as part of the Clean up Bristol Harbour...
A national campaign to create safer working environments for shop workers has been launched by law firm Foot Anstey and industry charity the Retail Trust. The certification scheme is aimed at protecting and reassuring shop workers as they face rising levels of abuse and inappropriate behaviour. Several well-known retailers...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has strengthened its trust and estate team with the appointment of Claire Johnson as legal director. Claire’s appointment follows a growth in demand for the firm’s tax and succession planning expertise in the domestic and international sphere from private and corporate clients. Claire, pictured,...
Specialist corporate lawyer Nic Barker has joined GL Law to build on the Bristol firm’s corporate finance and mergers and acquisition services to small and medium-sized businesses across the South West. Nic, pictured, has experience across a range of sectors, including development finance, healthcare and owner-managed businesses. Having spent...
Plans to create Bristol’s first net zero integrated retirement community – which will also include a new leisure and activity hub open to the public – have been submitted to Bristol City Council. The £85m proposal for St Christopher’s Square in Westbury Park have been drawn up following extensive community...
Three specialist energy and infrastructure lawyers are joining international legal practice Osborne Clarke as partners from the London office of US specialist firm Orrick. Partners John Deacon, Dominic O’Brien and Hannah Roscoe will significantly boost the Osborne Clarke’s energy and utility sector offering, particularly in the sub-sectors of renewables...
Monday March 21 Finals: Spectral MD Holdings, Photo-Me International, VH Global Sustainable Energy Tuesday March 22 Finals: Alliance Pharma, The Pebble Group, Diaceutics, Kape Technologies, Staffline Group, Fintel, Sabre Insurance Group, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Luceco, Zotefoams, Longboat Energy, Yu Group Interims: YouGov, SCS Group, Softcat, Diurnal Group Wednesday March 23 Finals: Henry...
University of Bristol spin-out companies generate higher average returns on investment than those of any other UK university, a new study has found. The University Spin-out Report revealed that over 20 years the average UK spin-out generates around double the original capital raised. But Bristol’s spin-outs average 285%, putting the...
Bristol tech start-up Zero Point Motion has raised £2.58m in a seed funding round to build a state-of-the-art lab in the city as it develops a new kind of navigation and motion-sensing microchip. The investment also means that Zero Point Motion founder and CEO Dr Ying Lia Li, pictured,...
