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Thursday 3 December 2020

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Clean air environment specialist snapped up

A Somerset-headquartered manufacturer of biological safety cabinets, fume cupboards, laminar flow cabinets and cleanrooms has been acquired by a listed business in a deal worth up to £5.8m.
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Business Matters: Futureproof your business for 2021

Sean McDonough and Tom Webb from Mogers Drewett say given the unprecedented challenges all businesses have faced over the last six months, there is no doubt that 2021 is going to be an important year. Add to this the UK leaving the EU on the 31st December and the uncertainty of more lockdowns and for many businesses 2021 could be a make or break year.
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Robotics and automation firm acquired in MBO

A Gloucestershire-based robotics and automation supplier, which has been operating for more than 30 years, has been acquired in a management buyout supported by two law firms in the county.
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Cookie sandwich maker secures Start Up Loan funding

A West Cornwall cookie sandwich maker has secured funding from the from the Start Up Loan scheme.
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TalkTalk offer deadline granted further extension

The firm behind a preliminary takeover offer for TalkTalk has again been granted more time to make a bid.
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Business Matters: Repurposing redundant office space - an intuitive way forward?

In the first blog of a two-part series on the landlord-tenant relationship, we looked at the current stalemate between both sides, with many commercial tenants still unable to pay their rent - let alone catch up on what they already owe. In their second blog, Paul Slevin and Louise Durkan from Quantuma look at the impact of falling commercial property values on institutional landlords and ask whether repurposing vacant space for an alternative commercial usage could be the commonsense solution.
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Business

CBI hails UK vaccine approval

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has hailed the UK's approval of the Pfizer/Biontech Covid-19 vaccine.
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Administrators appointed to Bonmarché

Administrators have been appointed at the company behind womenswear fashion chain Bonmarché but no redundancies or store closes have been made.
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Law firm’s advocacy arm increases fee income

Browne Jacobson’s advocacy arm grew its fee income 18 per cent to £1.8m during its most recent financial year.
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Ask the Expert: Supporting the region’s managers for 2021 and beyond

Lauren Squibb, business growth and employer partnerships manager at Weston College, says the global pandemic has drastically changed the working lives for many of us, with leaders and managers, at all levels being asked to do things differently.
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Property

Finance software firm inks lease on major Bristol lease

A cloud-based finance software provider has signed a lease on 11,000 sq ft of newly renovated grade A office space, in one of Bristol’s largest commercial property deals of 2020.
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Marketing and tech firm targets expansion with office deal

A South West marketing and technology company has purchased a third office block at Worle Park Way, Weston-super-Mare.
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Manufacturing

Year of significant progress at Avon Rubber

Listed technology group Avon Rubber has reported strong results ahead of expectations after a year of significant progress for the Melksham-headquartered provider of life critical personal protection systems.
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Agri-tech business develops new silo sensor

A Cornish agricultural technology business has developed a system to alert farmers when animal feed silos are almost empty.
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New non-exec director to join Imperial Brands board in 2021

A new non-executive director is set to join the board of Imperial Brands at the start of 2021.
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