Bristol-headquartered international law firm Osborne Clarke is quietly celebrating one of its largest and highest-profile deals – Apple’s $3bn (£1.8bn) acquisition of headphone and music streaming company Beats Electronics. Tech specialists at Osborne Clarke’s Bristol office teamed up with colleagues in the firm’s California-based team to advise Beats. The...
Filmscape Media, a leading supplier of film and television equipment, has become the latest creative industry firm to set up at Bristol’s Bottle Yard Studios. The camera, lighting and grip equipment rental company, whose head office is based at The Perfume Factory in central London, is expanding operations and...
A group of Bristol’s leading tech entrepreneurs will visit Buckingham Palace on Monday for a special reception with the royal family to recognise the sector’s powerful economic contribution. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will be joined at the event by The Duke of Cambridge, The Duke of...
Businesses are being urged to sponsor the hugely-successful 24 Hours in Bristol photo-marathon competition as it launches for its second year. The inaugural contest last year attracted hundreds of amateur and professional photographers to the city, generating more than 10,000 stunning of images Bristol over a single day. The...
By Paul Wilson, chief executive, West of England Local Enterprise Partnership Bristol is on a roll. It’s the best place to live in the country. The 100,000 people who engaged in the art of sliding down Park Street sparked a national debate on modernising city centre management. Bristol Food...
Innovative Bristol law firm Temple Bright is continuing its expansion with the addition of two more City lawyers to its team in London. The firm now has a total of 24 partners, eight of them based in the London office. Its partners have worked in a range of leading...
Measures announced in Wednesday’s Queen’s Speech to help small and growing businesses and speed up infrastructure projects have been welcomed by Business West, the organisation behind that runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Bristol Initiative. It also praised the Coalition Government for promising a relatively small number of...
The UK’s largest wine brand Hardys will be the title sponsor for this year’s Bristol International Balloon Fiesta after winning the naming rights in a competition. Hardys was one of four businesses drawn as sponsors at a glitzy dinner for members of the Fiesta’s 100 Club held last night...
Bristol Airport and airline KLM are to sponsor the Bath stage of the Tour of Britain cycle ride. The stage – the sixth of eight across the country – takes place on September 12 and is expected to attract thousands of spectators to the city as well as the...
International property consultancy JLL has made a number of graduate appointments to its Bristol office as the market continues to improve. Four have joined with a fifth due to start in September – the highest number of graduate appointments made by the office since 2007. Head of JLL’s Bristol...
National employment and training firm Seetec has relocated its Bristol base to a refurbished office block on the edge of the city centre – the latest in a series of moves triggered by the economic recovery. Bristol property agents say good quality office accommodation is being snapped up as...
Accountancy and investment management group Smith & Williamson, which has an office in Bristol, has been named among the UK’s top accountants and trust firms for private clients. More than 100 accountancy firms were surveyed for this year’s Private Client Practitioner’s Top 25 Trust Companies and Top 25 Accountancy...
Audit manager Tim Everitt, who works for accountancy and business advisory firm BDO in Bristol, has been named as one of the profession’s best and brightest talents. At the age of 24, Tim, pictured, is one of the youngest rising stars named in industry journal Accountancy Age’s ‘35 under...
