Bristol-based customer relationship marketing agency Armadillo has continued to invest in its senior management team by creating the new role of managing director. The promotion of client partner Joanna Penn to the position – along with the arrival of Emma Watson as a new client partner – follows year-on-year revenue growth...
Bristol public relations agency Empica has strengthened its team with the appointment of Kathryn Chatfield as PR assistant. Kathryn, pictured, is a Cardiff University psychology graduate with a Masters’ in International Public Relations and Global Communications Management and is a former pupil of King Edward’s School in Bath. She...
Activity in Bristol’s office market is growing faster than any other major UK city, with three large deals completing this month, rents up 11% on last year and a strong pipeline of inquiries for vacant space. With the city’s economy due to grow by 6.2% this year, property agents...
French animation film maker and distributor Cyber Group Studios has acquired a majority stake in Bristol animators A Productions in a deal that will involve them collaborating on new content for a global audience. Paris-based Cyber Group Studios, best known for its award-winning Gigantosaurus series, pictured, and A Productions...
The corporate team at Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon are celebrating advising on deals totalling more than £2.5bn last year, despite challenges posed by the pandemic. The firm’s corporate deals review for 2021 highlights its success in completing transactions across a wide range of sectors and for businesses...
A new round of grants for creative freelancers has been launched by the West of England Combined Authority, with Bristol-based cartoonist Camille Aubrey becoming the first recipient. Camille is one of 60 freelancers and workers in creative businesses across the region set to get a cash boost of between...
More than 100 innovative businesses have been supported by Future Space, the science hub launched five years ago by UWE Bristol, creating 400-plus high-value jobs between them, a new report shows. One of four University Enterprise Zones (UEZ) set up across the country, Future Space aims to spark new...
A €100m cross-border acquisition by UK global games entertainment group Team17 has been completed with the help of accountancy firm PKF Francis Clark’s Bristol office. Team17, best-known for the Worms franchise, The Escapists and Overcooked, snapped up leading German-based simulation games developer Astragon Entertainment as it continues its rapid...
National accountancy group Smith & Williamson, which has a Bristol office, is to partner with fintech group Innovate Finance to provide its members with professional and financial services insights to help them grow and develop their businesses. Under the year-long tie-up, the two will collaborate on a series of...
Purplefish, the Bristol-based communications agency, has appointed employer experience and brand expert Lucy McKerron as associate director to head a new division focusing on employee experience communications. Lucy, pictured, right, with Purplefish managing director Jo Randall, who has 15 years’ experience working in agencies, joins the 10-strong Purplefish team from internal...
Bristol-headquartered communications consultancy JBP has launched a sub-brand dedicated to helping organisations “mobilise, generate and promote positive action” to address climate change. Called Climate Communications and operating as a subsidiary of the agency, it will be headed by JBP managing director Chris Lawrance, pictured, and will provide strategic and tactical...
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 Jonnie Galvin-Wright, chairman of Bristol agency Stuff Advertising, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: What was the last film you watched? The Power of...
National business organisation such as the CBI can play a crucial role in helping Bristol develop world-class clusters in high-potential sectors such as deeptech and creative tech, its director-general was told on a visit to the city. Tony Danker met a number of businesses in Bristol to hear about...
