Bristol-based utilities scale-up The Bunch, which consolidates students’ household bills into one monthly payment, is set expand into the wider residential market after raising £400,000 in its latest investment round. The firm, founded by then-student Elliott Herrod-Taylor in 2017, closed the round in just eight days. Funded solely by...
Bristol craft brewery and pub chain Butcombe has become the latest hospitality and catering business in the city to join the war on waste food by partnering with the Too Good To Go app. Butcombe is to offer the service initially at eight of its pubs, including the Whitmore...
A Bristol-based coffee roaster plans to create jobs and become more sustainable after buying the building that houses its production roastery with a £1.1m funding package. Clifton Coffee Roasters has been renting the premises at Avonmouth for the past eight years, during which it has enjoyed significant growth. Now,...
The property litigation team at national law firm Foot Anstey has advised on a major case which has allowed leaseholders of million pound-plus flats in an upmarket part of London the right to manage their building. In the case, the Court of Appeal ruled against the freehold owner of...
Fast-growing Bristol-based café-bar chain Loungers has said it expects to escape the impact of the Covid-19 Omicron variant on the all-important Christmas period as it continues to significantly outperform the market. The group, which operates 184 neighbourhood venues across England and Wales under the Lounge and Cosy Club brands,...
Roper Rhodes, the bathroom furniture designer and supplier with its main warehouse on the outskirts of Bristol, has been sold to a Swedish firm in a deal worth up to £90m put together by city-based law firm TLT and accountants Deloitte. Family-owned Roper Rhodes was launched 42 years ago...
A new brand strategy and identity has been created for global serviced accommodation booking agent Situ by Bristol-based consultancy Mr B & Friends. Situ, which was founded in 2006, combines industry-leading technology with a customer experience it describes as first class. This gives its clients – which range from...
A business launched by a University of Bristol graduate bent on fixing the ‘toxic’ student rental market is looking to expand across the UK after finding accommodation for more than 1,000 young people. Hannah Chappatte set up online platform HYBR just over two years ago to put an end...
Bristol’s hospitality and catering businesses are being given a new weapon in the fight against food waste while also helping them become more sustainable. Visit West, the destination management organisation that covers the city through its Visit Bristol brand, has teamed up with with Too Good To Go to...
Global real estate advisor CBRE has made four promotions in its Bristol office. Nikita Dheir and Hannah Marshall have been promoted from their roles as senior surveyors to associate directors while former surveyors Stella Hicks and Hannah Hicks are now senior surveyors. Nikita, who joined CBRE as a graduate...
Bristol has developed Europe’s most exciting ‘deep tech’ ecosystem where innovators can accelerate ground-breaking ideas in areas as diverse as AI, synthetic biology, nano technologies and quantum computing, guests at the opening of the city’s new Science Creates centre were told. The incubator in Old Market is already becoming...
Bristol will miss the government’s net zero targets unless it significantly upgrades its office buildings over the next 10 years, according to new analysis. The report by leading property consultancy JLL, which has an office in the Bristol, concludes that just over 85% of the city’s office stock –...
The DoubleTree by Hilton Bristol City Centre has become only the third hotel in the city to be able to accommodate more than 300 delegates for a conference after opening its new ballroom. Completion of the room, part of a £100,000 refurbishment and extension at the hotel on Redcliffe...
