High street giant Next has brushed aside the gloom in the retail sector by taking an extra 10,000 sq ft at The Mall, Cribbs Causeway, near Bristol, to create a 43,000 sq ft flagship store. The move comes as a number of other lifestyle retailers plan to open at the...
Bristol hot tub and pool specialist Fitswim has taken a trade counter unit at South Bristol’s Enterprise Trade Centre on a five-year lease as part of its expansion. The firm, which already has its main base at the centre in Hengrove, wanted to take advantage of the prominent 6,808...
Commercial catering ventilation specialist B W Fabrications has moved to Ashton Vale Industrial Estate in South Bristol after outgrowing its base in St Phillips. The firm, launched in 1997, designs, manufactures and installs kitchen extraction equipment for the catering industry. It employs 16 people on site and supplies businesses across...
Bristol’s Ramada Hotel, which went into administration more than two weeks ago, is under new management follow a deal struck with Focus Hotels. The takeover has secured all 170 jobs at the hotel and a sister site near Heathrow Airport which has also been acquired by Focus. The hotels...
Stronger-than-expected rent collection figures have helped buoy high street landlords ahead of the crucial Christmas trading season. Some 94% of retailers paid on time on quarter day – the day every three months when rents are due – up from 85% for the same quarter last year. The figure...
Express delivery company City Link has expanded its operations in the West with the acquisition of a new regional distribution centre near Bristol. The parcels company has taken the 66,753 sq ft building from owners Prudential and Capital Shopping Centres on a 10-year lease, at an undisclosed rent. Employees...
More than 70 jobs at Bristol-based civil and structural consultants Clarke Bond Group have been saved following its acquisition out of administration by a private investor. Thomas Anderson bought the business for an undisclosed amount through Inspiration Holdings from joint administrators, director Mark Roach and partner Graham Randall in...
Specialist recruitment business Moon Consulting has entered a new phase in its growth strategy with the appointment of Peaches Golding OBE as principal consultant. Peaches, pictured, is one of the South West’s leading ethical business experts and was last year's High Sheriff of Bristol. She will help Moon create...
Congresbury's four-star boutique-style hotel, DoubleTree by Hilton, Cadbury House – together with its health club and spa – have been rated among the UK's "brightest" businesses in research compiled with the help of NESTA, the innovation agency, which identified fast growing companies, and business information specialist Dun & Bradstreet...
Bristol's latest hotel – a 151-bedroom Travelodge in Mitchells Lane, Redcliffe – is about to open for business. The six-storey hotel has a bar, 90-cover café and a 29-space car park in the basement. It also has a ground-floor commercial unit with planning consent for commercial, retail and leisure...
Central Park, a new 640-acre warehouse and distribution park at Severnside, has attracted its first pre-let. CHEP UK has signed up for a new pallet distribution facility of 50,000 sq ft on a 15-year lease with annualised rent increases in line with RPI, according to property consultants GVA. Central...
The Crown Estate has sold a third of its Cabot Park site at Avonmouth to AXA Real Estate for £10.5m. The deal was sealed on behalf of Midland property specialist Gallan and Stoford which is developing a major regional distribution centre on the 33-acre site. Gallan and Stoford had...
Flagship Bristol city centre office development The Paragon has been sold for £26.5m in a deal described as the most significant investment transaction in the city of the past 12 months. Bristol Cubex Land developed the 75,373 sq ft building in Victoria Street two years ago backed by London-based...
