Administrators have been appointed at troubled Bristol-based pharmaceutical manufacturer Avara Avlon Pharma Services, putting a question mark over the jobs of all its 270 workers. The firm makes active pharmaceutical ingredients at a 100-acre site in Avonmouth, pictured, which was acquired by US-based Avara Pharmaceutical Services from UK drugs...
Bristol Wood Recycling Project is celebrating rapid success in a fundraising exercise to buy its premises and secure its long-term future through a bond offer. The offer, staged on Bristol-based ethical bank Triodos’ crowdfunding platform, netted £430,000 in just over a fortnight from its public launch, with just over...
The region’s most ethical organisations will be celebrated next month when the South West Fair Trade Business Awards are staged for the seventh year. Tickets are selling fast for the ceremony on March 8, which will be hosted by Countdown presenter Nick Hewer and takes place in Bristol’s magnificent...
International accountancy group KPMG has hired Elizabeth Lewis as its first business development associate director for the region. Elizabeth, pictured, joins KPMG’s Bristol office from recruitment group Michael Page’s base in the city, where she was responsible for business development and recruiting senior finance and human resource professionals across...
Rapidly-expanding Bristol fintech firm Parmenion is partnering with independent recruiter Resource Management in a pioneering talent search programme aimed at strengthening the city’s presence in the high-growth sector. Parmenion is experiencing the fastest growth in its 11-year history, having trebled its in assets under management (AUM) over the past...
Severn Project, Bristol’s pioneering fresh produce grower, has been placed into liquidation after experiencing financial difficulties. The award-winning Community Interest Company (CIC) produced high-quality salad leaves and herbs at an urban farm in Whitchurch, pictured, for restaurants and catering firms across the city. The company also grew hemp, a marijuana derivative...
South West law firm Ashfords has renewed its commitment to partner the Lord Mayor of Bristol’s Children Appeal, with UWE signing up as a supporter for the first time. The appeal raises £66,000 every year to provide vouchers at Christmas for 1,650 of the city’s most disadvantaged children and...
The merger between mid-tier accountancy firms BDO and Moore Stephens has been completed – creating a 200-strong team in Bristol operating under the BDO brand. Staff from Moore Stephens’ Bristol base are to relocate to BDO’s existing office at Bridgewater House over the coming months from their base at...
Innovative biometric tracking service Forth, which helps people navigate their way to better health using simply at-home finger-prick blood tests, has secured investment from its first institutional investor. Forth, originally part of Bristol’s world-beating SETsquared technology accelerator, has received the funding from The Development Bank of Wales, together with...
More than 300 guests gathered at Bristol’s Museum & Art Gallery this week for as a private view of a unique exhibition of work by Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci. Accountancy, tax and investment management firm Smith & Williamson, which has an office in Bristol, is one of the...
Bristol independent games developer Auroch Digital is poised for strong growth and the launch of two highly original games after receiving funding from a group of private investors in the city. Bristol Private Equity Club’s £200,000 investment in the firm, based in the Bristol Games Hub in Stokes Croft, coincides with...
The organisation tasked with helping shape the economic future of the West of England is hoping to attract more businesswomen to join its board to go some way to address its major gender imbalance. Out of the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership’s (LEP) 18 board members, just two...
