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...
Bristol firms are being invited to join Children’s Hospice South West’s Business Club as it aims to raise £90,000 from the initiative to support it in helping make a difference to young people with life-limiting illnesses and their families. The charity needs around £11m a year to run its...
A major redevelopment of Bristol Airport’s airside departure lounge is due to start on Monday. The £2.6m, three-month project, which will create dozens of jobs, aims to improve the shopping and dining experience for passengers before they board their flights. The lounge’s retail units will get a facelift while...
Investments by the Bristol team of growth finance group BGF passed the £100m mark for the first time last year as it continued its strong run of funding ambitious businesses. The team injected £115m of equity into firms in 2021 – a 72% increase on 2020’s total and more...
Bristol corporate communications agency AMBITIOUS PR has made five strategic hires as it aims for a turnover of £1m turnover this year. The agency, which launched 10 years, grew revenue by 50% in 2021, describing it as as “an incredible year”. Now it is looking to accelerate further with...
