Bristol-based specialist sports facility development consultancy Sport Solutions has further strengthened its growing team with the appointment of three more staff. Planning specialist Huw Jones, pictured below, joins as planning and development manager with responsibility for planning and development aspects of sport and leisure facility projects. He previously worked...
Monday November 26 INTERIMS GB Group, Immunodiagnostic Systems Holdings, Quintain Estates & Development Q3 Espirito Santo Financial Group SA FINALS Aberdeen Asset Management, Infrastrata AGMS Aisi Realty Public Ltd. (DI), Origin Enterprises, West Pioneer Properties Ltd. (DI) Tuesday November 27 INTERIMS Caledonia Investments, De La Rue, Findel, KCOM Group,...
Newly-elected mayor George Ferguson was sworn in this week with representatives of the city’s business community pledging to help him boost Bristol’s image and attract new jobs and investment. Mr Ferguson, an entrepreneur and architect, is already well known by many businesspeople in the city and during his campaign...
A team from leading Bristol law firm Burges Salmon has been named Commercial Team of the Year at the annual British Legal Awards for its stand-out work for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). The team supported the NDA through effective collaboration on a trailblazing Target Cost Incentive Fee (TCIF)...
Director of the Bristol’s SETsquared Centre, Nick Sturge, has received an award for his ‘outstanding contribution to business incubation’. Nick, who has led the centre at the University of Bristol since 2006, received the award at the conference of the UKBI, the national trade body for business incubators. Four...
Barry Horner, chief executive of Bristol-based financial planners Paradigm Norton, is to become the first UK chair of international financial-standards body the Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB). Barry, pictured, who has already been president of the UK’s Institute of Financial Planning, takes up the position in 2014. Until then he will...
Bristol law firm Osborne Clarke advised long-standing client Unite, the student accommodation specialist also based in the city, on its first retail bond issue. The bonds, launched this week, will have an interest rate of 6.125% and will mature in 2020. They are being offered to the public and are...
Bristol Post owner Northcliffe Media, the regional publishing arm of the Daily Mail group (DMGT), has been sold to a consortium led by former Mirror Group boss David Montgomery. New owner Local World said it “intends to transform regional publishing to create a one-stop shop for local content to...
Bristol-based asset and property management specialist Adapt Properties has expanded its team and opened a second office in Cirencester. Started three years ago by partners Adam Fletcher, James Taylor and Graham Payne, who combined their commercial backgrounds in banking, finance, property development and asset management, Adapt has recently recruited...
Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey has acquired more than 150 acres of land at Emersons Green, near Bristol, to develop about 2,000 homes and employment land over the next 10 years. The acquisition is one of the largest land transactions in the region in recent years. Taylor Wimpey bought the land...
Bristol-based Hotcha, the UK’s only chain of Chinese takeaways, is to open a further four more outlets by Christmas just a year after launching its first three eateries. The ambitious group, founded by young entrepreneur James Liang, is to open on Gloucester Road, South Liberty Lane and in Kingswood...
Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO has added six new graduates to its Bristol office, reinforcing its commitment to recruiting the brightest and best talent from the graduate market. Matt Drummond and Chris Knowles have joined its global outsourcing division, which has grown its revenue by 25% over the...
The Bristol offices of property consultants Alder King and Hartnell Taylor Cook have been appointed to market Almondsbury Business Centre, the nine-building business park close to the M4/M5 interchange in North Bristol. The centre, pictured, part of the iO AM portfolio and managed by Caisson Investment Management, has recently...
