Specialist waste management firm Ecowaste Southwest’s acquisition by Stericycle has been referred to the Competition Commission for further investigation by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). Ecowaste operates across the South West and owns a treatment facility at Avonmouth while Stericycle’s UK subsidiary SRCL provides similar services throughout England...
A refurbished Avonmouth trading estate has gone from half empty six months ago to almost full with five empty units now let. Just 10 per cent of St Andrews Trading Estate off Third Way now remains vacant, according to Knight Frank, which markets the estate jointly with Jones Lang...
The Bristol and Bath offices of chartered accountantcy firm Target are celebrating a combined 20% increase in turnover. The firm’s results for the year to June also show national turnover rose by 10% to £13.3m, making it the UK's 45th largest accountancy firm. Target, which recently opened its corporate finance...
Knightstone Housing Association, the West of England housing provider with hundreds of homes in the Bristol area, is in detailed negotiations that could result in it taking over nearly 641 properties in Somerset. Knightstone, based in Worle, Weston-super-Mare and already one of the largest registered social landlords in the...
Agricultural and private client litigation specialist Kevin Kennedy joins the UK’s premier food, farming and land team this month at leading law firm Burges Salmon. Kevin joins after five years as a partner with Clarke Willmott, having previously spent seven years at Burges Salmon. He has built a national...
Dutch technology firm Prime Vision, which specialises in optical character recognition (OCR) systems for mail and parcel companies, has opened a UK office to support what it describes as its “booming” business. The office, at Aztec West, will act as a meeting venue and training centre for up to...
Great Western Ambulance NHS Trust (GWAS) has appointed the Bristol office of property advisors GVA to help it modernise its property estate. Chippenham-based GWAS’s 30 sites are spread across Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and the West of England and range from state-of-the-art facilities to buildings nearing the end of their economic...
A watercolour showing animated favourites Wallace and Gromit is among the artwork on offer at one of two charity art events being organised by Bristol law firm Gregg Latchams. The two events, which take place next month at View Art Gallery, in Hotwell Road in the city, are being held to...
Bristol-based entrepreneurs, advisers and mentors are on hand to meet budding business owners this morning at the launch of the StartUp Britain bus tour. The city is the first of 14 entrepreneurial hot spots across the UK to be visited by StartUp Britain. The tour aims to celebrate, inspire...
Bristol’s planned Enterprise Zone should include homes as well as offices and studios if it is to succeed in bringing new jobs to the city, a property expert claims. The 173-acre Enterprise Zone is expected to create 17,000 jobs in 400 businesses over 25 years, with an emphasis on...
Bristol City Council has worked with a number of local tech businesses to re-design its website which it claims is now much easier to use and improves dramatically its service to residents. The site – http://www.bristol.gov.uk – has a number of new features: • An improved navigation system and...
Big Bang Post Production has completed work on Ocean Giants, a three-part series for the BBC’s Natural History Unit. The series brings the viewer face to face with the world’s most extraordinary whales and dolphins. Top whale and dolphin scientists uncover their surprising stories and reveal new insights into...
Bristol Zoo is the latest addition to A Time Traveller’s Guide to Bristol, the innovative web and mobile phone application made by production firm Arthur Cox and supported by South West Screen. A Time Traveller's Guide to Bristol uses archive footage to show the changing face of the city...
