Bristol Creative Industries widens the experience on its board with five new top-level appointees

May 30, 2024
Bristol Creative Industries widens the experience on its board with five new top-level appointees

Five new directors have been appointed to the board of Bristol Creative Industries, the membership organisation that supports the city’s creative businesses and individuals. Bristol Creative Industries (BCI) said Adam Millbank, Tom Harber, Tom Bowden-Green, David Darke and Kate Sikora would bring additional strength and depth to its board,...

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Deals involving defence training company and onshore wind farm completed by Osborne Clarke teams

May 29, 2024
Deals involving defence training company and onshore wind farm completed by Osborne Clarke teams

Lawyers in international legal practice Osborne Clarke’s Bristol office have advised on two major deals in the defence and renewables sectors. The firm advised the shareholders of defence sector simulation and training specialist Mabway on its disposal to a Canadian firm and supported the sale of a UK onshore...

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Pub-to-business hub plan for disused 19th century inn drawn up by Bristol development company

May 29, 2024
Pub-to-business hub plan for disused 19th century inn drawn up by Bristol development company

Bristol property development and architecture firm Studio Hive has drawn up ambitious plans to transform a derelict 19th century pub into offices, homes, a business hub and a licensed cafe/coffee shop. Once used as a temperance inn for workers at the nearby Tyntesfield Estate, Grade II listed The Battleaxes...

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Long-term £130m deal to get giant Scottish wind farm up and running supported by Burges Salmon team

May 29, 2024
Long-term £130m deal to get giant Scottish wind farm up and running supported by Burges Salmon team

A cross-firm team of lawyers from Bristol-headquartered Burges Salmon has advised on a major wind farm project in the Scottish Highlands with the capacity to bring green power to more than 40,000 homes. Burges Salmon provided banking, finance, energy, real estate, planning and construction expertise to Export Development Canada...

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Bristol Business Blog: Haines Watts South West corporate tax director Clare Boden. Looking after Bristol’s dynamic SMEs is a real pleasure

May 28, 2024
Bristol Business Blog: Haines Watts South West corporate tax director Clare Boden. Looking after Bristol’s dynamic SMEs is a real pleasure

After many years working with larger companies, both in-house and with external accountancy firms, I have to say it’s a pleasure to be involved with the SME community again. Small businesses are part of my background – my mum, auntie and uncle all run their own businesses in Wales...

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Ahead of the Agenda: The Week Ahead

May 26, 2024
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Monday May 27 Bank Holiday: Nothing listed Tuesday May 28 Finals: Pets at Home, Griffin Mining, Theracryf, Xeros Technology Group Interim: Victorian Plumbing Group Wednesday May 29 Interims: Impax Asset Management Group, React Group Q1 result: Bank of Georgia Group Economic announcement: BRC shop price index Thursday May 30...

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Bristol’s role as top location for TV and movie production earns it coveted global City of Film title

May 24, 2024
Bristol’s role as top location for TV and movie production earns it coveted global City of Film title

Bristol has been crowned ‘City of Film’ in a major international awards scheme in recognition of its “outstanding and sustainable work” in the industry. Judges for the 2024 Global Productions Awards named Cary Grant, Sir David Attenborough and Aardman Animations among their reasons for awarding the accolade to Bristol –...

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Top quantum computing researcher joins Bristol deeptech firm as it targets US market with new office

May 24, 2024
Top quantum computing researcher joins Bristol deeptech firm as it targets US market with new office

Phasecraft, the deeptech business founded by a group of Bristol and London-based academics, is to open its first international office in the US as it looks to commercialise its world-leading expertise in quantum computing. The firm, launched in 2019 as a spin-out from London’s UCL and the University of...

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Galleries plan would ‘re-invent, revitalise and modernise’ outdated shopping mall, say developers

May 24, 2024
Galleries plan would ‘re-invent, revitalise and modernise’ outdated shopping mall, say developers

Ambitious plans to transform The Galleries shopping mall in Bristol city centre into a mixed-use development have been submitted to the city council. Bristol-based developer Deeley Freed has spent the past four years working with The Galleries’ owner LaSalle Investment Management on the project to replace the 70-store centre,...

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