Another high-rise building scheme could be developed close to Bristol city centre as part of a project to transform a corner of Castle Park into a sustainable housing development. Goram Homes, Bristol City Council’s housing company, has teamed up with Bristol Housing Festival to investigate at how the site...
SETsquared Bristol has appointed Marty Reid as its new director, taking over from Monika Radclyffe, who has led the world-leading tech incubator since 2016. Marty, pictured, takes up the role in January. He has been the head of Engine Shed, the Bristol innovation hub and home to SETsquared Bristol,...
Lawyers from Bristol-headquartered TLT are toasting their role in bringing iconic drink Babycham back to its West Country roots ahead of its relaunch next year by members of the same family that made it a huge success in the 1950s and 1960s. The TLT advised Somerset-based drinks firm Brothers...
Plans for a seven-storey mixed-use building on a high-profile site on Bristol’s Harbourside have been criticised by heritage advisory body Historic England. It has written to Bristol City Council formally objecting to the scheme, pictured, saying it would harm the setting of Bristol Cathedral while also blocking important views...
Bristol-based utilities scale-up The Bunch, which consolidates students’ household bills into one monthly payment, is set expand into the wider residential market after raising £400,000 in its latest investment round. The firm, founded by then-student Elliott Herrod-Taylor in 2017, closed the round in just eight days. Funded solely by...
Bristol craft brewery and pub chain Butcombe has become the latest hospitality and catering business in the city to join the war on waste food by partnering with the Too Good To Go app. Butcombe is to offer the service initially at eight of its pubs, including the Whitmore...
Bristol-based wealth management boutique Whitechurch Financial Consultants has continued to grow with the acquisition of another client bank, adding a further £31m to its assets under advice. The client bank, which is based in the South West, is now in the final stages of being integrated into Whitechurch’s financial...
Running highly effective campaigns for Cunard and McDonald’s earned Bristol-based customer relationship marketing agency Armadillo five gongs at a prestigious marketing awards scheme. The haul, the largest in the agency’s 29-year history, included a Gold, two Silvers and two Bronzes at the DMA Awards – the annual best-in-class showcase...
Spherics, the Bristol start-up enabling businesses to understand their carbon footprint, has appointed Marina Traversari as its chief operating officer. Spherics uses cloud-based carbon accounting software to support making net zero a reality. The software measures the carbon footprint of companies and their supply chains to better identify opportunities to...
A Bristol-based coffee roaster plans to create jobs and become more sustainable after buying the building that houses its production roastery with a £1.1m funding package. Clifton Coffee Roasters has been renting the premises at Avonmouth for the past eight years, during which it has enjoyed significant growth. Now,...
ForrestBrown, the Bristol-based market-leading research and development tax relief consultancy, has appointed Chloé Palmer as an associate director. Chloé, pictured, will be working on a wide range of strategic projects to support the next phase of ForrestBrown’s growth. She has joined from national accountancy firm Mazar’s London office, where...
The Institute of Directors (IoD) has appointed four ambassadors for the South West to ensure its members remain at the heart of its operations in the region. The quartet of experienced business leaders – Katherine Piper, Alex Chikhani, Peter Doyle and John Rotherford – will enable greater connectivity between...
The property litigation team at national law firm Foot Anstey has advised on a major case which has allowed leaseholders of million pound-plus flats in an upmarket part of London the right to manage their building. In the case, the Court of Appeal ruled against the freehold owner of...
