National law firm Bevan Brittan has shrugged off the massive impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the legal sector to achieve a 29.5% increase in net profits on revenue up by 9.1%. Revenue for the 2020/21 financial year came in at £56.1m - with growth across all parts of...
SETsquared Bristol, the world-leading tech incubator, has grown its team with three new Entrepreneurs in Residence (EiR). The increase to four EiRs is in response to growing membership at the incubator, which is backed by the University of Bristol. It currently has 85 member companies. Last year it widened...
Bristol’s food businesses are being urged not to bin their surplus produce but to redirect it to FareShare Southwest, the region’s largest food redistribution charity, as it gears up to prevent children going hungry during the school holidays. The food will help the charity, whose mission is to fight...
A series of virtual and community fundraising events is being organised by Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) to bring in much-needed cash after it suffered a major falloff in income over the past year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The charity, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, needs around...
Bristol’s pandemic-hit independent cafés, restaurants and other hospitality and tourism-related businesses will be showcased in a social media campaign aimed at getting local people to use them throughout the summer. The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) launched #MyHiddenGems this week to coincide with the official end of Covid-linked restrictions...
Bristol-based customer relationship marketing agency Armadillo has grown its senior team with the appointment of Andrew Terry as head of strategy. In his new role at Armadillo, Andrew, pictured, who joins from global communications agency Wunderman Thompson, will work across its big-name brand clients, including McDonald’s, Disney, P&O Cruises...
The growth capital team at international law firm Osborne Clarke’s Bristol office have maintained their recent flurry of deals by advising on a multimillion pound investment into a company now building the world’s safety standard for cryptocurrency. The team worked with global venture capital fund Element Ventures in its...
International commercial property agency Cushman & Wakefield has made a second double appointment to its regional hub in Bristol in as many months. Louise Claxton has been taken on as a surveyor in the valuation & advisory team while Lauren Harrison has joined the firm’s graduate scheme. Louise previously worked...
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A disused industrial space in a long-overlooked part of Bristol has been reimagined as a new cultural destination by a collective of city-based events and music industry specialists. The former torpedo testing site off Feeder Road, St Phillips, has been brought back to life as Propyard for a summer...
Bristol firms are being urged to remain cautious about easing Covid-related measures too quickly as the country prepares for most legal restrictions to be lifted on Monday. With infection rates rising again across the area, the city council is encouraging residents to avoid crowded areas, if possible, and to...
The pandemic has made people much more sensitive to the impact of not being able to work and how it can affect their domestic finances. While previously many might have taken a relaxed approach to income protection insurance and perhaps not seen it as an essential part of their...
Two Bristol film industry companies are in the running for prestigious Daytime Emmy Awards this weekend as part of the team behind the first-ever animated special to emerge from iconic kids’ TV programme Sesame Street. Independent animation production studio A Productions worked on The Monster at the End of This Story, pictured, and...
