The Bristol office of specialist finance group BGF has made a £4.7m growth capital investment in heavy equipment rental firm Plantforce – its second transaction in the sector this month. Weston-super-Mare-headquartered Plantforce is the largest firm of its type in the South West with a client portfolio that includes...
The West of England Combined Authority (WECA) has appointed two more directors to complete the line-up of its four-strong senior leadership team. Shahzia Daya joins next week as director of legal services and monitoring officer from Bristol City Council, where she has been service director, legal and democratic services,...
Bristol-based ethical bank Triodos is working with an award-winning organic craft beer producer to help fund its new six-figure brewery and bar development. Fast-growing Stroud Brewery, one of only a handful of solely organic brewers in the UK, this week launched a bond offer to raise £300,000 with Triodos,...
BRAVE Enterprise, the Bristol-based not-for-profit business advice organisation, is running a series of training workshops during September 2018 for those just starting in business and established firms looking to promote their goods and services. The workshops – which are held at BRAVE’s offices in Upper York Street, Bristol –...
Bristol-based Molson Construction Equipment, the UK’s largest distributor of capital equipment, has received a £6.3m investment from BGF to support its growth strategy. Molson will use the funding to build a new national parts centre and additional depots across the UK. Founded in Yatton in 1996 by Jonathan Wilson...
Business groups are divided over the need for yesterdey’s 0.25% increase in interest rates by the Bank of England. The move, which took the base rate from 0.5% to 0.75%, is only the only the second time the Bank has hiked the cost of borrowing since the economy crashed...
Accountants Smith & Williamson’s Bristol-based corporate finance team and lawyers from the city office of Osborne Clarke have advised a family-owned transport firm operating across Yorkshire on its sale. Hull-based East Yorkshire Motor Services (EYMS), which has carries more than 17m passengers a year and employs 700 people, has been sold...
Lawyers at international legal practice Osborne Clarke’s Bristol office have helped a pioneering medical devices group focused on the emerging field of surgical endoscopy raise up to £48.5m through a share placing. Chepstow-based Creo Medical’s flagship product, called Speedboat, pictured, allows doctors to carry out surgical procedures without the...
St Austell Brewery’s Charitable Trust has donated £10,000 to Children’s Hospice South West following the recent official opening of Bath Ales’ new brewery in Warmley. Since acquiring Bath Ales in 2016, the Cornwall-based brewery has spread its Charitable Trust’s operations into area to ensure as many people as possible...
Interest rates have been increased from 0.5% to 0.75% by the Bank of England – taking them to their highest level for nearly a decade. It is only the only the second time the Bank has hiked the cost of borrowing since the economy crashed 10 years ago. Most...
Brightpearl, the retail management software firm that is one of the stars of Bristol’s tech sector, has completed its latest funding round for further growth and appointed a high-profile chairman. The firm, which launched 11 years ago in Bristol’s highly successful SETsquared innovation incubator, has received $15m (£11.4m), which...
Businesses and individuals working in the sustainability sector will be able to get an update on Bristol’s pioneering City Leap project at an event next week. Bristol City Council aims to bring in potential partners from across the world to help the city become carbon neutral by 2050. It...
Shareholders in leading organic children’s clothing maker Frugi have used expertise from regional law firm Ashfords and the Bristol office of national accountancy group BDO in their sale of a majority stake in the business. Frugi, which designs, manufactures and sells sustainably-sourced organic cotton apparel and accessories for babies,...
