Bristol-based Mentor Digital has launched the first rewards app for the UK bowling industry – with more than 50,000 downloads taking place within four weeks. The augmented reality (AR) app, pictured, has been developed for Tenpin, the country’s largest bowling centre group operating nearly 50 across the country, including...
South West property consultancy Alder King has made two promotions in its Bristol office. Emma Smith, from the firm’s agency team, becomes a partner while Hugh Collins is promoted to senior surveyor in the residential development and energy team. Emma, pictured with Hugh, developed her expertise over the past...
National wealth management and professional services group Evelyn Partners has strengthened its business support and restructuring teams in Bristol with a new manager appointment and several promotions. Accountant Camilla Foden joins the group’s advisory consulting team as a manager from Stroud-based green energy pioneer Ecotricity, where she was a...
Monday May 1 Bank holiday: Nothing listed Tuesday May 2 Final: Facilities By ADF Interim: Carr’s Group Q1 results: BP, Gran Tierra Energy Economic announcement: PMI Manufacturing Wednesday May 3 Finals: Inspiration Healthcare Group, Cambridge Cognition Holdings, Ashtead Technology Holdings, Light Science Technologies Holdings Interims: Ten Lifestyle Group, Smiths News Trading announcements: OneSavings Bank, Flutter Entertainment,...
Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Claire Menzies, chairwoman of Bristol creative business collective Istoria Group, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? The Wisdom of Trauma – a documentary. The film...
The CEO of Loungers, the fast-growing Bristol-based café-bar chain, has said its trading over the past year was a “truly stand-out performance”. During the 52 weeks to 16 April the group opened 29 new sites, taking its portfolio to a total of 222. The openings included 24 Lounges and...
Bristol-headquartered energy group Ovo is to offer its staff the chance to work on most bank holidays and take another day off instead. The firm, which employs around 4,500 in offices across the UK, said the scheme would boost its approach to flexible working and create a place “where...
Organisations need a diversity of views to be relevant and effective, the former Director General of MI5 Eliza Manningham-Buller told West of England business leaders last night. Speaking at the ICAEW regional annual business dinner, Baroness Manningham-Buller, pictured, drew on her experiences leading the service through significant change, expansion and...
Bristol and London law firm Temple Bright has been appointed by prestigious Marlborough College to advise on a large construction project. The development at the Wiltshire independent school will include five science labs alongside a physics preparation room as well as the widening of the building’s main corridor. Swindon-headquartered...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has made 10 partner promotions in a move it says reflects its commitment to progressing female talent – with women accounting for two-thirds of its partner promotions over the past three years. Six of the new partners, pictured below, work in the firm’s commercial...
Advisers from regional law firm Thrings and accountants Bishop Fleming have helped secure a major national deal in the fast-growing data and artificial intelligence sector. The acquisition of DataShapa by market-leading Microsoft pure play technology partner Transparity will create a major specialist data practice. London-based DataShapa, a Microsoft Gold...
Amdaris, the fast-growing Bristol digital transformation and software specialist, has unveiled its redesigned and enlarged head office – calling it an oasis of creativity and collaboration. The firm, widely recognised as one of the UK’s fastest-growing tech companies, called in Bath-based workspace design company Interaction to shape its new headquarters in the...
Bristol firms are being urged to join more than 125 firms across the UK that have already signed a pledge to never support or promote blood sports such as hunting or shooting. The plea has come from West of England Metro Mayor Dan Norris, who is also chair of...
