Backing 73 green energy deals worth a total of $630m (£495m) across Europe has earned ethical bank Triodos first place on an international league table for the fifth year running. The bank, which has its UK headquarters in Bristol, earned the position on the Clean Energy Pipeline global league...
Bristol-based green investment firm Rathbone Greenbank has strengthened its specialist ethical, sustainable and impact investment team with two new appointments. Sophie Lawrence joins Greenbank’s in-house research team as a senior researcher, responsible for assessing the social and environmental performance of investments while David Nicholsby arrives at the investment team as...
Lawyers from TLT had to overcome the twin impacts of Brexit and the coronavirus outbreak to complete a significant cross-border deal for leading renewables investment firm – and longstanding client – Blackfinch Energy. The Bristol-headquartered national law firm initially advised Blackfinch Energy on the land acquisition for the Llwyndyrus...
An innovative way of dramatically simplifying the cost and performance analysis of cloud computing technology has been launched by YellowDog, the Bristol-based tech business. According to the firm, the YellowDog Index “brings order to chaos” by cutting through the complexity of comparing different combinations of processor, memory, bandwidth and...
The Future Leap, Bristol’s sustainable business hub, has reopened from lockdown with a new co-working space offering a home to businesses, freelancers and charities interested in developing the green economy. The Future Leap, operated by Bristol’s Future Economy Group, opened on Gloucester Road last year as a UK first,...
Practical ideas on how businesses can continue to support charities during the coronavirus pandemic are to be aired at a webinar hosted by Quartet, the community foundation for the West of England. The third sector is facing its toughest time for a generation with hundreds of thousands of people...
A £10m innovation project to help Bristol businesses make products that are lighter, more fuel efficient and have less waste and so reduce carbon emissions has been officially launched. The Digital Engineering Technology & Innovation (DETI) initiative will play an important role in driving innovation and digitally enabled recovery...
Bristol has led the development of a new website connecting the global Cities of Film network, which it joined in 2017 to reflect its world-leading status for the moving image. Bristol City of Film, the group that brings together all elements of the industry in the city, led the...
Bristol law firm Gregg Latchams and regional chartered accountants Milsted Langdon have teamed up to launch a ‘Bristol Bounce Back’ initiative to help firms recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. The project is supported by an expert panel made up of individuals some of the city’s leading businesses including the Bank of England’s South...
Bart Ingredients, the Bristol-based manufacturer of herbs and spices, looks set to move from its base close to the city centre to a new warehouse development at Avonmouth. The firm, which was founded in 1963, is being linked with Junction One, a 139,000 sq ft unit on a 6.6-acre...
A Bristol refrigeration firm that has helped keep food retailers operating safely during the coronavirus crisis has secured a £2m finance facility from HSBC. A1 Engineering, which works predominantly for large supermarkets, has used the funding to continue operating its service and repair service for them while other parts...
West Country dairy brand Yeo Valley has hired Bristol communications agency Wild West to produce an integrated campaign focused on its sustainability and organic messaging. The account was won by Wild West, along with its London-based sister agency Wild Card, following a competitive pitch. The two have combined to form...
The CBI said Chancellor Rishi Sunak was “absolutely right” to prioritise jobs in his summer statement. Director-general Dame Carolyn Fairbairn, pictured, said: “Flattening the daunting unemployment curve about to hit our country could not be more important. Joblessness scars lives and hits the young and most disadvantaged hardest. “The...
