Bristol-headquartered café/bar chain Loungers has proclaimed the latest outlet in its home city as its best performing new site ever. The highly successful group opened Ritorno Lounge in July in the former Pitcher & Piano on Harbourside, pictured. At the time it was its 228th Lounge-branded venue. While it is...
Rapidly expanding construction consultancy Coreus Group has relocated to new offices in Bristol after outgrowing its previous base in the city. The firm launched in Devon five years ago and opened in Bristol’s Clockwise flexible workspace in 2022. Now it has taken around 1,500 sq ft in the recently refurbished...
The fit out of international law firm Osborne Clarke’s state-of-the-art Bristol office has won a prestigious national workplace award while a second city centre development has been highly commended. The Osborne Clarke office in the flagship Halo office building at Finzels Reach – one of the UK’s most sustainable...
In just under a month, Bristol’s business community will come together for The Welcome Party, an event celebrating the economic, cultural and social contributions to the city of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants. Taking place on Thursday 7 November at The Mount Without on St Michael’s Hill, pictured below,...
A Bristol-based start-up that engineers advanced materials for sound and noise management has won a prestigious pitching competition – with its co-founder singing part of his presentation to demonstrate the product’s effectiveness. Metasonixx landed the Best Elevator Pitch at SETsquared Bristol’s acclaimed Tech-Xpo 2024 Showcase – a competition that...
Burges Salmon, the Bristol-headquartered national law firm, has become headline sponsor of The Welcome Party, the flagship event that will celebrate the talents and stories of the city’s refugees and migrants through music, art and storytelling. The move underscores the important role businesses can play in reshaping public perceptions...
Bristol-headquartered mechanical, electrical and renewables contractor UES is electrifying its fleet as part of its journey towards coveted B Corp accreditation – with city-based specialist motor leasing firm Vanaways in the driving seat. UES, founded in 1986, provides commercial and industrial heating, plumbing, electrical and renewable services to customers...
Thousands of commercial vehicles using Bristol’s roads could be running on clean hydrogen by 2030 while the city’s gas pipes could be used to distribute what is widely seen as the fuel of the future, according to new studies. Findings of a report produced commissioned by Hydrogen South West...
Pioneering Bristol social enterprise Babbasa is to promote the voices of young people on the city’s key decision-making boards as part of its ongoing OurCity2030 social mobility initiative. Its Trailblazer Programme will enable participants to challenge injustices and inequity when new policies that will shape the city are being...
An historic, family-owned construction company has appointed Bristol-based specialist public relations consultancy Distinctive Communications to handle its external PR activity. Swindon-headquartered Beard, which was established in 1892 and opened its Bristol base in 2015, has grown steadily over recent years, winning major contracts across the South of England. Last year...
One of the largest construction groups operating in the Bristol area has collapsed into administration, with its office on the city’s outskirts closed down and its employees facing redundancy. ISG, which has been responsible for some of the largest building projects around Bristol for more than a decade, ceased...
An investment fund worth £100m is to be set up to help finance the West of England’s drive towards a green economy, including supplying up to 36,000 homes with renewable energy. The fund was approved today by the West of England Combined Authority, which has committed £10m of new...
A Bristol structural engineering consultancy founded 75 years ago has been acquired by a global temporary works specialist, making it part of a business now capable of offering a much wider range of services. Clarkebond, which has offices in Exeter and London as well as its headquarters on Cumberland Road,...
