The search has started to find the South West’s happiest workplace – and staff working for Bristol’s forward-looking businesses are being encouraged to take part. The contest, launched last year by Bristol-based workplace and interior design consultancy Wylde Interior Architecture, aims to show what separates a happy workplace from...
Businesses and organisations from across Bristol were rewarded for their efforts in driving environmental sustainability in the workplace at the inaugural Go Green Awards last night. Go Green was launched in February last year and is a collaboration between business leadership organisations Business West and Low Carbon South West....
The Bristol office of regional law firm Foot Anstey is working with Weston College to support its plan to create a Law and Professional Services Academy. The multi-million pound project, which will be based at the recently acquired Arosfa Hotel and Winter Gardens Pavilion in Weston-super-Mare, was devised in...
M4 corridor commercial law firm Thrings has advised the shareholders of specialist timber importer and merchant T Brewer on its acquisition by UK and Ireland-based building materials business Grafton Group. T. Brewer has been supplying timber to the London and the Home Counties construction markets since 1888. It trades...
Bristol business leaders are being urged to enter one of the top business awards schemes recognising excellence and enterprise in the region’s boardrooms. The annual Institute of Directors’ South West Director of the Year Awards showcase outstanding leaders and entrepreneurs and focus UK-wide attention on success in the region. Over recent...
International legal practice Osborne Clarke has retained all of its seven spring qualifiers, with three qualifying into its Bristol office. Becky Cupit, 25, studied Law at Cambridge University and spent a year in Germany studying German law. She qualifies into Osborne Clarke’s Bristol commercial litigation practice. Joining the firm’s Bristol...
Bristol is the number one UK regional city for law firms, according to a new survey which measured how much office space the legal sector occupies outside London. Bristol, with nearly 875,000 sq ft of office space used by its law firms, heads the table of the 10 cities...
Law firm Clarke Willmott is hosting a conference on capacity and end-of-life care next month in conjunction with Bristol University’s Centre for Ethics and Medicine. The March 3 event at the firm’s Bristol office will explore the legal and ethical dilemmas in the care of individuals who lack capacity,...
BRAVE Enterprise, the independent, not-for-profit business advice organisation based in Bristol, stages a comprehensive programme of training courses and workshops. Introduction to bookkeeping Presenter: Sarah Batorijs Date: Tuesday March 8 Time: 9.45am – 12.45pm Cost: £54 (inc VAT) per workshop Whether you are running a new business and have...
Bristol’s year as European Green Capital officially ended this afternoon with a pledge by its key players to keep the city at the leading edge of sustainable business innovation. A closing ceremony staged at Colston Hall looked back over Bristol’s year in the green spotlight and at its legacy....
Each week Bristol Business News lets a prominent member of the area’s business community have the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Peter Clough, head of Osborne Clarke’s Bristol office, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Amy – a brilliantly put together...
The Bristol office of international law firm Osborne Clarke has demonstrated its global reach by advising on the closure of a major cross-border property fund. A team led by Bristol-based partner Tim Simmonds, pictured, worked with Nordic real estate private equity firm Niam on the close of its €800m...
