Banking and corporate specialists in the Bristol office of international law firm Osborne Clarke have advised fast-growing credit technology platform Fintern on its latest fundraising round, in which it secured £8m of new capital. The investment round, led by international investment firm Hambro Perks, also included an equity investment...
Bristol and London law firm GL Law has appointed three new team members as it continues to develop and grow its services for businesses and individuals. Associate solicitor Ed Jaffa has joined the corporate & commercial team and paralegal Lloyd Perry has become a member of the private client...
Bristol-based animation production studio A Productions has been shortlisted in a national award scheme for its work on the first Sesame Street animated special for HBO Max. Sesame Workshop’s The Monster at the End of This Story has been nominated in the Best Longform category in the British Animation Awards (BAAs),...
The first major event staged by the Western Gateway economic partnership takes place next month to bring together key figures from business, academia and local and national government on both sides of the Severn to explore the potential of the cross–border powerhouse. Called Green Growth within the Western Gateway, the day-long...
Monday February 14 AGM: GCP Infrastructure Investments Tuesday February 15 Finals: Plus500, Glencore, RM AGMs: Dewhurst, Nexus Infrastructure Economic announcement: Claimant count rate, unemployment rate Wednesday February 16 Finals: Segro, Primary Health Properties, Indivior Interim: BHP Group Economic announcements: Retail price index, Consumer price index, Producer price index Thursday February 17 Finals: Standard Chartered, HarbourVest Global...
International energy monitoring and management firm Best.Energy is to relocate its head office to Bristol from Cornwall as it looks to expand its research & development and energy analysis operations. The firm, founded in 2006, expects to double its headcount to 120 this year as it continues to expand...
Bristol charity Aid Box Community is appealing for storage space as it struggles to cope with a huge increase in demand for its services triggered by a rise in the number of refugees and asylum seekers arriving in the city. Aid Box Community (ABC) has a hub and free...
Pioneering pharmaceutical firm Vectura is planning to develop a centre of research and development excellence in Bristol as it looks for further global growth opportunities under new owner, tobacco group Philip Morris International (PMI). The Chippenham-headquartered group, which was controversially acquired by PMI for £1.1bn last September, says the...
Work has started on the £12m redevelopment and expansion of Bristol’s highly successful film and TV studio The Bottle Yard as it aims to attract more productions to the city. The work, which will add three new sound stages and is being funded by the West of England Combined...
The Bristol team behind the UK’s first female urinal has raised £250,000 in their first funding round, including investment from the co-founder of online bank Monzo, as they aim to pioneer ‘pee-equality’ for women. The PEEQUAL, invented by University of Bristol graduates Hazel McShane and Amber Probyn, pictured, is...
The Bunch, the rapidly expanding Bristol firm set up in 2016 by students fed up with being taken advantage of by utility companies, is taking its innovative bills payment system to the US in a move to harness the country’s vast market potential. The business, which consolidates all household...
Bristol’s construction and manufacturing businesses will be able to boost their employees’ green skills as part of a new scheme backed by the West of England Combined Authority. More than 100 firms across the region are being invited to take part in the 18-month Skills for Clean Growth programme to...
Research projects ranging from using electric buses to transfer passengers to their planes to planting carbon-absorbing flowers and grass are to be explored by Bristol Airport as ways of lowering its emissions. The airport is to fund five projects in partnership with organisations ranging from two leading airlines to...
