Bristol-based business relocation specialist Reloc8 has been taken over just two days after going into administration in a deal that has saved the jobs of all 28 staff. Administrators BDO LLP sold the cash-strapped business to R8 Workspace for an undisclosed sum. R8 will initially continue to run the...
Interest rates were pegged at their record low of 0.5% again today with all the signs pointing to no increase until next year. With most recent surveys and reports showing little or no improvement in the economy, the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was unlikely to raise...
Budget airline easyJet has launched next year’s spring schedule from Bristol Airport with the promise of 40 low-fare routes. The airline, the UK’s largest, has increased capacity on a number of popular destinations including Crete, Dalaman and Pisa. More than 6,400 flights next spring are now on sale. EasyJet...
Brabazon Office Park in Filton has attracted three new occupiers. Joint agents BNP Paribas and Alder King Property Consultants have let Unit Three – a 2,482 sq ft office – to Third Dimension Software on a new 10-year lease at a rent of £15.50 per sq ft. The company...
Bristol filmmakers, including Oscar winners Aardman and students from the city's School of Animation, have set a new record for making the world's largest stop-motion film – a year after they produced the smallest.That film featured Dot, a character just 9mm tall living in a microscopic world set. For...
Some of the businesses helping make Bristol a hub for innovation are taking part in a showcase of the city’s creativity for London-based entrepreneurs. The one-day ‘mission’, called London to Bristol and supported by pioneering Bristol IT firm Sift Media, is aimed at getting companies out of the capital...
Bristol student Shahaid Hussain is on track for a successful career in the property industry after being recognised by the city’s professional body. Shahaid, from Greenbank, is the first winner of the Bristol Property Agents’ Association’s (BPAA) Student of the Year award. The 39-year-old recently obtained a First from...
Renishaw, the innovative advanced engineering group, and Everything Environmental, the ethical promotional gift company, have been shortlisted in this year’s National Business Awards. Wotton-under-Edge-based Renishaw, where annual pre-tax profits recently soared by 203% to £80.4m, is among firms in the mid-cap category, sponsored by accountants and business advisers Grant...
Barclays Corporate in Bristol has led a seven-bank, multi-million pound refinancing agreement to support international sterilisation services group Synergy Health's continued global expansion. Swindon-based Synergy, which employs more than 4,000 people worldwide and specialises in the medical devices and healthcare sectors, has expanded rapidly in recent years through a...
Whyatt Pakeman Partners, an independent firm of Bristol-based chartered accountants, has appointed Richard Bunker as a partner following the merger of his own practice with Whyatt Pakeman Partners. Richard brings with him many years of valuable experience as a tax specialist working with companies, professional practices, owner-managed businesses, farmers...
Bishop Fleming, the Bristol-based accountants with a string of offices across the South West, is to merge with Midlands-based Rabjohns to create a firm that straddles the M5 corridor from Cornwall to Worcester. The enlarged firm will have 21 partners and 230 staff. Bishop Fleming, by far the larger...
Bristol law firm Burges Salmon has recruited Kari McCormick, previously a litigation partner at Clifford Chance, who brings with her more than 15 years’ experience in dispute resolution, including complex multi-party litigation for insurance companies, banks and corporate entities. Kari joins more than 80 lawyers in the firm’s successful disputes and litigation...
Property consultancy GVA, which has a regional office in Bristol, has been ranked as the largest supplier of services to the public sector with a 44% market share. The figure, for 2010/11, has been released by the Government Procurement Service (formally Buying Solutions). GVA’s Bristol office provides a range...
