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Top 50 Inspiring Workplaces across EMEA announced

  • Announced at an exclusive Gala Dinner at The Kia Oval in London
  • Top 50 include: BBC Studios, Blood Cancer UK, BUPA, NHS, Philip Morris International, Places for People and overall winner Takeda

London – May 25, 2022. Last night The Inspiring Workplaces Group announced its first ever Top 50 Inspiring Workplaces list in EMEA. North America will be announced on June 22, 2022.

In its eighth year and to reflect an evolving workplace landscape, IW revamped the awards program for 2022. It asked each organisation to complete the same entry form consisting of six key elements. Elements it believes are fundamental to creating an Inspiring Workplace. They are:

  • Culture and Purpose
  • Leadership
  • Wellbeing
  • Inclusion & Diversity
  • Communication
  • Employee Experience

Organisations entered a category defined by how many people are within the business.

The Top 50 was decided by an independent expert judging panel.

Matt Manners, Founder, The Inspiring Workplaces Group commented, “Congratulations to The Top 50 Inspiring Workplaces. An historic moment. This year, the competition for an Inspiring Workplaces Award is the strongest that we have ever seen. We think that this is brilliant news. Indicative of positive, meaningful change throughout the world of work. Organisations must create workplaces that not only inspire but provide reasons to first believe in and then to feel like they also belong.”

Full list of winners from The EMEA Inspiring Workplaces Awards 2022.

Business size:

Enterprise Business (5000+ employees):

  1. Places for People
  2. Rackspace Technology
  3. Bupa

Large Business Winners (500 – 4999 employees):

  1. Takeda Business Solutions
  2. PagerDuty
  3. NHS Business Services Authority

Medium Business (50 – 499 employees):

  1. Grosvenor Property UK
  2. TimeXtender
  3. Cooper Parry

Small Business (0 – 49 employees):

  1. The Unmistakables
  2. Nexio
  3. Flo Health

Non-Profit:

  1. Blood Cancer UK
  2. Financial Services Compensation Scheme
  3. Anthony Nolan

Inspiring Workplaces Agency of the year:

  1. Home
  2. H&H

Special Recognition:

IW announced the winner from each category last night. It will be announcing The Top 10 in each region and globally later this year.

  • Culture and purpose winner
    • Flo Health
  • Leadership winner
    • PagerDuty
  • Wellbeing winner
    • Computacenter
  • Inclusion winner
    • The NHS Business Services Authority
  • Employee communications winner
    • Takeda
  • Employee Experience winner
    • PagerDut

The ranking for the EMEA Top 50 Inspiring Workplaces:

  1. Takeda Business Solutions
  2. PagerDuty
  3. NHS Business Services Authority
  4. Places for People
  5. Computacenter
  6. MediaCom UK
  7. Blood Cancer UK
  8. Grosvenor Property UK
  9. TimeXtender
  10. The Unmistakables
  11. Nexio
  12. Globalization Partners
  13. Cooper Parry & Flo Health
  14. Aico
  15. AbilityNet
  16. Kid-A
  17. Reward Gateway
  18. Financial Services Compensation Scheme
  19. BBC Studios
  20. Al Jazeera Media Network
  21. SupportYourApp
  22. ICS-digital
  23. Government Business Services
  24. Rackspace Technology
  25. Cartwright Communications
  26. Anthony Nolan & Corndel
  27. TaskUs
  28. Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority & Enfuse Group Ltd
  29. Claritas Tax Ltd
  30. Cielo
  31. EduMe
  32. Suntory Beverage
  33. Cornerstone
  34. Serve & Protect Credit Union
  35. R/GA Media Group Ltd
  36. Bupa
  37. SWIFT
  38. HSPG
  39. Superior Wellness & Adarga Limited
  40. N-ix
  41. Aspectus Group
  42. Philip Morris International
  43. BITE Lietuva
  44. Accolite Digital & Wolseley UK
  45. Moneyhub
  46. MM Search & RSK
  47. Straightin
  48. eStar Truck & Van
  49. Couchbase
  50. The Red Sea Development Company

Be inspired: InspireWork Summits in association with STM Group

After an enforced two-year break, the InspireWork Summits, (formerly the Employee Engagement Conference) returned to London the day of the Gala. It is now heading to New York (June 22) and Sydney (October 07). All the content will be made available On-Demand. Register here: https://www.inspiring-workplaces.com/our-events/

InspireWork Summits bring together all the learnings, innovations and expertise from some of the most Inspiring Workplaces around the world, topped with the latest insights from leading thought leaders and experts in the field of employee experience, HR, employee wellbeing, future of work and diversity and inclusion.

Register for 2023 Inspiring Workplaces

Want to have the chance of being named in The Top 50 Inspiring Workplaces across EMEA or North America? Then register your interest here: https://www.inspiring-workplaces.com/forms/register-your-interest-in-the-2021-inspiring-workplaces-awards/. We will open for entries this September.

Sponsorship

There are various opportunities for organizations to partner with Inspiring Workplaces. For more information please contact matt@inspiring-workplaces.com

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Westcon-Comstor reports FY22 financial results

Revenue up 11.8% to US$2 890.4 million following demand for all technologies in the Westcon International portfolio

LONDON, UK – 24th May 2022 – Westcon-Comstor (Westcon International) reported its FY22 earnings results earlier today. Total net revenue was up by 11.8% to US$ $2.89 Billion driven by strong demand and market share in its cybersecurity portfolio, networking and hybrid infrastructure offers and its remote access and cloud collaboration solutions which were deployed in new flexible working environments.

EBITDA profit increased by 52% to US$68.1 million (FY21: US$44.8 million) with gross margins averaging 11% globally. Westcon International’s gross profit increased by 9.6% to US$319.0 million (FY21: US$291.0 million) supported by strong results in both Europe and Asia-Pacific.

“Two years ago, our company demonstrated strong resilience in the face of the pandemic and the FY22 results we announced today illustrate our ability to not just sustain strong momentum but to go beyond and adapt and win in a rapidly changing market”, commented David Grant, CEO of Westcon-Comstor.

“Our focus on portfolio expansion with software and subscription-based solutions has helped us to not only record double-digit, organic revenue growth– despite material product supply constraints– but to drive unprecedented EBITDA improvement as well. It’s a true testament to the hard work of our teams across all operations, who have performed exceptionally well this last year.”

Westcon-Comstor announced that demand for its solutions continued to climb, coupled with supply constraints and chip shortages, its backlog of orders increased over 300% (from US$261 million for FY21 to US$824 million for FY22.)

“Multi-year investments we’ve made in business automation and digital tools are paying dividends as well. Our focus on Solutions Lifecycle Management and building Flexible payment solutions helped us to ensure that over 50% of our gross revenue in FY22 was recurring; we see that percentage growing as we go into FY23”, added David Grant.

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Beyond Now’s Digital Business Platform Available on Google Cloud Marketplace

Infonova Digital Business Platform enable customers to adopt new business models using its advanced ecosystem orchestration and monetization capabilities on Google Cloud

Dublin, Ireland – May 24th, 2022 – Beyond Now, a fast-growing ecosystem orchestration and digital platform provider, today announced that its Infonova Digital Business Platform is now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace empowering organizations to embrace new business models and grow revenue together with an ecosystem of partners. The digital business platform is delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering and is ideal for businesses who are looking to rapidly build digital marketplaces for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), IoT, enterprises, and consumer solutions that use partner orchestration hubs or modernize their business support systems (BSS). The platform is also designed to act as the underlying technology that can unify digital experiences for customers in the communication and technology space. Through its unique ecosystem orchestration capabilities, Infonova gives service providers (SPs) the ability to co-create solutions leveraging new technologies such as Cloud, Edge, 5G etc., onboard them, sell and monetize at scale.

Google Cloud customers can now procure Beyond Now’s Digital Business Platform directly from Google Cloud, as well as benefit from streamlining their procurement processes.

SPs are adopting new business models to grow revenue beyond their connectivity services. The Infonova Digital Business Platform is designed to enable them to get there faster. Through this collaboration, SPs can also benefit from the ability to rapidly sell Google Cloud and SME software solutions, packaging them with their own solutions or third-party services that can be onboarded at speed, and launched within days.

With the Infonova Digital Business Platform now available on Google Cloud Marketplace, customers will be able to:

  • Simplify digital “shop, buy and use” experiences for SPs’ customers
  • Rapidly launch any solution with any commercial model with any business rules in days
  • Grow with their ecosystem and manage the end-to-end dynamics of partner ecosystems including channel partners, solution partners, marketplace and B2B2X
  • Leverage their own assets, including their internal and external ecosystems, to drive new revenue and maximize efficiency
  • Start small with the most pressing business problem or a single use case, then scale and expand with success, while keeping control of risk and cost
  • Experiment, test, launch and monetize new offerings at speed – leveraging multiple technologies and services (e.g., Cloud, Edge, 5G or IoT), and a partner ecosystem.

“Organizations digitally transforming their businesses to expand into new markets require technologies that support these new models of business, such as cloud infrastructure, 5G, edge computing,” said Dai Vu, Managing Director, Marketplace & ISV GTM Programs. “We’re thrilled to have the Infonova platform available on Google Cloud Marketplace to help customers access and implement the solutions they need to grow their businesses and succeed at scale in the cloud.”

“Our partnership with Google Cloud has gone from strength to strength. Together, we’re already successfully delivering customer projects and experiencing growing demand worldwide. This latest development means our customers can benefit both from the technology advantage of having Infonova on Google Cloud and the commercial flexibility of buying Infonova from Google Cloud Marketplace” said Angus Ward, CEO at Beyond Now.

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How CRM Systems Take Your Business to New Heights

If you’re thinking about adding a customer relationship management (CRM) system to your business, you should also be thinking about how a CRM can help you manage customer interactions and information. After all, that’s what a CRM is!

Find the best explanation of how CRMs are evolving in the present business industry. If you are looking for the best CRM for a startup or even multi-national business management,

What is CRM?

A CRM is just a software solution for managing customer relationships. It helps businesses record, store, analyze, and use customer data—namely, contact information and interactions with the company—so that they can target marketing campaigns and close sales more efficiently. In other words, it automates many of the tasks involved in keeping track of your customers so that you can focus on using those insights to grow your business.

Reasons CRM is taking businesses to new heights

1. CRM systems store customer and potential customer contact information.

CRM systems can store a wide range of information about both current and potential customers, from contact details like their name and mailing address to purchase history and preferences. By tracking customer purchases, interactions with your company, and other important information, CRM systems enable you to create personalized user experiences for your clients.

2. CRM systems help companies stay organized and come up with better products for customers.

With the ability to keep track of your customers’ needs, wants, and interactions with your company, you can use CRM systems to identify areas for improvement for your business and better serve your customers.

CRM systems help you organize information about who is buying what from you and why, as well as data about who hasn’t purchased anything from you. If a customer is complaining about certain features not existing on your website or product, that information gets stored in the system along with other complaints/suggestions from other customers.

CRM systems also organize info about who buys what products from you and how often they buy them. This info helps companies figure out which products are selling really well versus which ones aren’t selling so well.

So by using CRM systems to track this info over time (and making changes to poorly-selling products), companies can turn around the sales of poorly-performing products (yay!).

3. CRM systems also provide customer insights.

In addition to making it easy to connect with customers and manage customer relationships, CRM systems can also provide customer insights.

Using analytical tools, your sales staff can glean valuable information about customers’ needs and buying patterns. Having access to this data allows them to tailor their pitches to individual customers, which is key in B2B sales.

Some CRM software is even smart enough to suggest products or services that might interest your customers based on past purchases and interactions you’ve had with them. For example, if a customer has purchased a certain product or service from your company three times within the last eight months, the system may recommend that one of your salespeople reach out to them in two months’ time when they will likely be ready for another purchase.

4. CRM systems help you increase customer satisfaction.

One of the biggest ways a CRM will help your business is by increasing customer satisfaction. When you have all your information about a client in one place, it’s easier to provide great service, and customers respond to that. You can use your CRM to:

● Increase customer retention. A good CRM will give you all the info you need to keep existing clients happy and coming back for more.
● Increase customer loyalty. By building strong relationships with customers, they’ll want to return again and again.
● Increase customer retention rates. The more customers come back, the better! Retention rates are a key indicator of company health, so this is huge.
● Increase customer lifetime value (LTV). When customers come back multiple times over a long period of time, their LTV increases—and so does yours!

CRM Benefits for Businesses:

There are CRM benefits for businesses of any size. Your business stands to benefit in a number of ways from using CRM software, including:

● Meeting customers’ needs efficiently and effectively.
● Helps your customer service team be more effective.
● Enables you to identify new sales opportunities.
● Improves your overall relationship with customers.

How CRM Qualifies your Business to Establish in Market?

One of the biggest advantages of a CRM system is its ability to produce detailed analytics and reports. From this data, you can track and monitor your business’s performance in different areas, including sales and marketing. Advanced CRM systems will show you how well your business is doing, where it’s lacking, and even how these numbers compare to previous years or other businesses in your field.

Another useful quality of a CRM system is that it can integrate with other third-party applications like social media platforms and accounting software. This means that all the information you need can be found in one place instead of having to access multiple tools separately.

Final Analysis!

It’s not exactly news that the customer experience is critical for any business. In fact, 86% of consumers will leave your business for a competitor if they have a negative experience with your brand.

That’s why it’s important to utilize this technology in your business. Here are just some of the benefits:
● It allows you to work more efficiently and focus on what matters most – the customers.
● It gives you better insight into your sales process and valuable reporting tools so you can track progress and make changes as necessary to keep improving.
● It eliminates manual processes that are prone to error and makes it easy to collaborate across different departments within your organization.

While CRM for business might not be the best fit for every company, here are some examples that could benefit from having a CRM system in place:
● Any businesses that prioritize customer satisfaction and have multiple team members interacting with customers along each step of their journey (like IT companies).
● Businesses with complex back-office needs where data analytics is key to understanding how they can improve their processes (such as healthcare providers).
● Any companies with mobile field workers who need access to customer information while on the go (such as contractors or real estate agents).

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Egress named one of the UK’s Best Workplaces™ by Great Place to Work®

Prestigious award underscores Egress’ status as a leading employer in the cybersecurity industry and adds to recent recognition as a Best Workplace in Tech, Best Workplace for Wellbeing and Best Workplace for Women

London, UK – 28th April 2022 – Egress, the leading provider of intelligent email security, today announced it has been named as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces™ by Great Place to Work© for 2022, celebrating the company’s commitment to investing in their employees and building a dynamic, unique company culture. In addition to its recent inclusion on the 2021 Best Workplaces in Tech, Best Workplaces for Tech and Best Workplaces for Women lists, this honour underlines Egress’ status as an employer of choice in the rapidly growing cybersecurity industry.

“At Egress we take our relationships with our people very seriously. We care deeply about their experience here. We are on a journey to building a world class culture built on the highest performance and morale.” explains Chief People Officer Laura Probert.

“We want Egress to be the best place our people have ever worked, and strive for our people to feel more valued and developed than at any time in their career. The results of our annual Great Place to Work participation highlights the impact of all the new people initiatives we have rolled out in the last year, and shows us how we can continuously improve.”

“Even in times of agonising uncertainty, at Best Workplaces™ the shared mantra of ‘purpose over profit’ has stood firm,” said Benedict Gautrey, Managing Director of Great Place to Work® UK. “We’re incredibly proud to recognise the 290 companies on our list for their outstanding workplace cultures, and unwavering commitment to supporting employees so they can deliver the best strategic solutions to ever-changing business opportunities and challenges.”

To determine the 2022 UK’s Best Workplaces™ list, Great Place to Work® performed rigorous evaluations of hundreds of employee survey responses alongside Culture Audit™ submissions from leaders at each company. They then used these data insights to benchmark the effectiveness of companies’ employee value propositions against the culture their employees actually experience.

Those businesses who achieve the highest scores after evaluation receive Best Workplaces™ status.

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Go Beyond Smart MFDs to Connect the Dots between Present Needs and Your Digital Future

By Gabriela Garner, Product Marketing Director at Kofax

London 26th April, 2022: There’s no doubt about it—the hybrid workplace is here to stay. The majority of companies will adopt a hybrid work model, employing a mix of in-person and remote employees, according to the Forrester 2021 Predictions: Accelerating Out of the Crisis report.

But what’s remote work? During the pandemic, remote work became synonymous with people working from home, sporting “business on top and PJs on the bottom.” While this image can give us a good a laugh, it doesn’t fully encompass all that remote work truly is for the modern-day organization. Long before COVID-19, remote work of a different sort was in full swing as colleagues collaborated with other departments within the same building and different offices around the world. When we look at this expanded definition, most of us have probably been engaging in remote work for a long time.

Organizations have been able to support employees as they work with colleagues in different teams, buildings, cities and countries thanks to the vast improvements in access to digital information. The post-pandemic version of remote work, however, ushered in a sudden shift in the workplace dynamic. Many companies quickly realized they weren’t far enough along in their digital transformation efforts to support the rapid rise of this new type of remote work and the data it generates.

Instead, they found themselves caught between a rock and a hard place, trying to find a way to keep the wheels of “business as usual” turning while steadily rising to the level of digital aptitude required to help employees thrive in the new hybrid and remote work models. This may seem like an impossible battle to win, but there are innovative and effective technologies that can help organizations work toward the future without compromising the present. In fact, the right solution can even accelerate the speed with which today’s workflows are executed while simultaneously boosting strategic progress toward a more automated, digital tomorrow.

If you’re wondering how to get started and connect the dots between today and tomorrow, look no further than your multi-function devices (MFDs). MFDs have been a mainstay in most organizations for quite some time, but when the right automation technology is applied to them, they’re transformed into versatile powerhouses. Intelligent automation unlocks the full potential of MFDs, making them smart devices that can accelerate your digital strategy and serve as the connective tissue between your current state of digital transformation and where it needs to go.

The Journey: Today versus Tomorrow

Just about every organization—regardless of where they are in their digital transformation—is leveraging automation as part of the effort to achieve their vision for the future. But there’s much work to be done. Almost half (48 percent) of decision makers surveyed said their organizations have manual or only partially automated processes, according to The Kofax 2021 Intelligent Automation Benchmark Study Part 1: Successful Automation Requires an Integrated Vendor Strategy. Another piece of the study discovered that while the number of use cases for which organizations are utilizing automation is increasing, adoption rates for more mature use cases such as back-office tasks, decisioning and accounts payable are still fairly low. In other words, there’s a lot of room for improvement.

When asked what they consider to be the most critical use cases for automation, decision makers listed robotic process automation (RPA) (61 percent), artificial intelligence/machine learning (43 percent) and digital process automation (40 percent) as the top three responses. It’s interesting that all three require document intelligence in order to succeed. Organizations must be able to ingest, classify and extract unstructured data from all documents, regardless of format, so the data can be processed and analyzed for actionable insight. The only way to accomplish this is with document intelligence. A combination of intelligent automation technologies such as intelligent capture with advanced content-aware capabilities empowers organizations to classify documents, extract all relevant data and make well-informed decisions with the information as well as automatically initiate document-based workflows.

Where’s your business today when it comes to documents? Perhaps your company is moving away from printing completely. If so, you’re not alone. Digital scanning and capture are faster, more accurate, more easily accessible and more efficient. Just think about how much time is saved by searching for a digital document as opposed to flipping through stacks of paper or filing cabinets.

At the same time, there are several reasons why printing isn’t going away. Disparate systems within the company may not connect with each other, and in the new hybrid world, employees may not have access to paper documents when they need them. For these organizations, printing remains a critical element of the business infrastructure. But as the volume of data collected grows at exponential rates, the need to digitize becomes stronger by the minute.

The challenge, then, is how to progress toward digitization without interrupting the day-to-day operations. Is it even possible?

Bridge Today AND Tomorrow with Smart MFDs and Intelligent Automation

You may not think of your MFDs as a stepping stone to digital workflow transformation, but by applying intelligent automation capabilities to MFDs they become an on-ramp to transformation and a bridge that connects organizations to their digital futures. What’s even better is that smart MFDs also improve speed, efficiency and productivity now, enabling you to do a better job today while accelerating the journey to your future vision.

You may be asking, “Why intelligent automation?” Anything less, such as a piecemeal approach to automation, has several drawbacks. According to decision makers, a siloed approach results in high technical debt (46 percent), delays in successful outcomes (35 percent) and problems of scale (34 percent), as discovered in part two of the benchmark study, Automation at Scale: Bridging the Gap Between IT and the Business. Intelligent automation provides a comprehensive set of capabilities so organizations can achieve end-to-end automation with a flexible and scalable platform.

MFD fleets powered by intelligent automation software allow companies to meet (and even exceed) the needs of today, while speeding up the path to tomorrow by empowering companies to:

  1. Achieve continual improvement on short-term business objectives while sustainably executing on the broader transformation vision. MFDs can intelligently capture information from digital and physical documents, process the information and transmit it wherever it needs to go across the enterprise.
  2. Digitally connect disparate systems within an organization’s ecosystem and eliminate manual, error-prone, paper-based processes. Intelligent automation eliminates the need for separate systems to print, sign, scan and fax. Integration with enterprise applications, legacy systems, transforms enterprise document management workflows.
  3. Control the rate of progress based on the changing needs of the business. Keep printing where it’s still essential—manage everything securely and ensure compliance with redaction, watermarking and audit trail reporting capabilities. Meanwhile, other areas can shift to data capture and all-digital workflows. A flexible platform gives organizations a choice and supports growth, meeting your immediate and long-term needs.
  4. Improve productivity of the distributed workforce and delight remote employees in any capacity with access to critical business information from any location without connectivity disruptions. A consistent user experience for print, capture and mobile across all devices is convenient and simple, keeping your remote and hybrid workers agile and connected.
  5. Accelerate the business results of today while maximizing your strategic goals for business transformation tomorrow. Advanced capture and print workflows drive efficiency and productivity of the daily grind. Employees have easy access to more accurate information from any location and device, so they can get work done faster while the business simultaneously moves toward the digitization needed for future success. Predictive analytics allow users to harness the power of data, so you can make informed business decisions on the digital transformation journey.

No matter where you rank on the digital aptitude scale, one thing is clear—smart MFDs backed by intelligent automation help organizations build a foundation today for a complete digital transformation tomorrow. Connect the dots between the present and the future, faster than ever, and start working like tomorrow, today.

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Love Your Employees Promotes a Key Solution to National Insurance Increase

Employee benefits marketplace provider Love Your Employees has heralded salary sacrifice as a key solution to help businesses and their employees mitigate the effects of the forthcoming national insurance increase.

From 6th April 2022, national insurance contributions will increase by 1.25%, a move that has been criticised in the midst of what has been dubbed the cost-of-living crisis.

To help people with increased outgoings, Love Your Employees is encouraging businesses to use salary sacrifice as a solution. The scheme has been running for over 25 years and is used by 87% of the world’s FTSE 500 companies.

Salary sacrifice allows employees to contribute to their pension from their gross pay, meaning they will be taxed at a lower level of salary. This scheme will not only allow employees to contribute to their pensions in an affordable way, but it also means they and their businesses will pay lower rates of national insurance.

Elliott Smith, co-founder of Love Your Employees, commented: “The national insurance increase is coming at a time when consumers are seeing their purse strings tightened by inflation and increased household bill costs.

“We know it’s going to have a huge impact on millions of households, and we’re committed to helping both businesses and employees mitigate these costs. By implementing salary sacrifice, businesses will reduce their national insurance contributions and could increase their employees’ take-home pay, all while encouraging them to pay into an essential pension pot.

“At a time of rising living costs across the board, we’re here to help businesses and their people to tackle further increased living expenses.”

The national insurance rise has been criticised because it will have more of an impact on lower earners. Workers will pay 13.25% on their earnings between £9,800 and £50,268, up from 12% but this will disproportionately affect those on the lower end of the scale.

Love Your Employees is the UK’s first employee benefits and wellbeing marketplace, designed to help employers source benefits for their people and assess their existing perks and benefits with its healthcheck service. By using the healthcheck, businesses can identify gaps in their wellbeing and benefits strategy and understand how they can improve it. Love Your Employees is offering a free review to employers who are interested in salary sacrifice, which will show business how much they could save on national insurance.

Get in touch with Love Your Employees today to find out how much you could save: https://loveyouremployees.co.uk/#contact

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GS Verde Group expand Bristol presence at Generator Building

Building upon the recent expansion of their Cardiff headquarters, dealmaking business GS Verde Group has increased capacity in Bristol city centre by more than double, signing a significant lease at the Generator Building, accommodating over 30 staff with capacity to expand further as the business continues to enjoy rapid growth across its multiple disciplines.

 

The new offices, situated in the contemporary and centrally located Generator Building at Finzels Reach, will support the increased staff count across the businesses’ multiple disciplines. The business has made several appointments already in 2022 with more vacancies available following a year of significant growth, as demand for the M&A and business sale specialists’ multidisciplinary approach has soared.

 

Having only recently doubled their Welsh office space, the new Bristol premises underpin the Group’s growing presence across England, Wales and Ireland furthering the team’s reach.

 

This substantial expansion also follows recent success for GS Verde in the Experian Market IQ reports on deal-making in 2021, achieving a unique feat by being the only firm to rank in both the corporate financial and legal rankings in Wales, in first and second place respectively.

 

GS Verde advised on over 100 deals across the UK and Ireland last year, in the business’ best year of trading to date, and expects to see their activity increase even further through 2022.

 

With GS Verde’s complete advisory team across corporate law, finance, tax and communications, these new offices are more than double the Group’s previous space in Bristol, a significant increase that accommodates the fast growth of the business.

 

Speaking of their expansion, GS Verde Group CEO, Nigel Greenaway said: “We are thrilled to be expanding our Bristol office and operations across the South West, augmenting the scope of our offering of unique M&A advisory services throughout the UK and beyond.

 

“Just a few months into 2022, GS Verde has already seen rapid growth in multiple locations, reflecting the value of our multidiscipline approach, and the appetite for corporate transactions.”

 

As GS Verde also progresses plans to expand their EU location in Dublin and expects to continue to acquire as part of its own buy and build strategy, there are still more exciting developments to come this year.

 

 

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GS Verde Group doubles HQ office space following significant growth

Following a year of significant growth, dealmaking business GS Verde Group has signed a lease to double their head office space in Cardiff, as part of impressive expansion plans for the multidisciplinary M&A advisory firm.

 

With a team of now more than 60 strong, the M&A and business sale specialists have seen a 30% increase in staff since the middle of 2021. The team’s growth spans the full scope of its multiple disciplines, with 5 new Legal experts, 10 Finance and Accounting specialists, 2 Data Analysts, and 3 Communications professionals.

 

This includes a number of high-profile senior appointments including new Directors, Joel Dunning (Corporate Finance), Fleur Riggs (Head of Specialist Tax), Garry MacKay (Commercial Law & IP), and most recently Simon Pathé, who joined the multi-discipline team as an Associate Director and Employment Law expert for GS Verde Law.

 

The growth in personnel, coupled with ever increasing demand for the Group’s dealmaking services, has led to the need to take on additional space at their head office in the Maltings, Cardiff.

 

Speaking of their expansion, GS Verde Group CEO, Nigel Greenaway said: “We are delighted to take on this additional space at the Maltings, a building we have been in since inception. To think we started as 2 people just 9 years ago, to now needing to double the capacity of our Cardiff office to meet our growth plans, really is credit to our excellent teams across the Group.”

 

Speaking on the signing of the new lease, Gareth Oram, Managing Director of the Maltings said: “We are delighted to continue our long-standing relationship with GS Verde as the home of their head office. We look forward to seeing the next stages of their exciting growth.”

 

With further expansion planned in both Bristol and Dublin in 2022, as well as the business planning to continue to acquire as part of its own buy and build strategy, this year is proving to be an exciting one for GS Verde.

 

Mr. Greenaway added: “Working as one team, we are building something very special at GS Verde.  Our offering is truly unique, and the board and I are extremely excited to see our ambitious growth plans coming to fruition.”

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New A&R management team outline ambitious plans for 150 new jobs in 2022

Soft services provider, A&R Services is set for an almost 50% increase in staff this year, following the recent announcement of a Management-Buy-Out.

 

Based in Bridgend, the business has seen significant success year-on-year, closing 2021 as the sixth year of consecutive growth.

 

Now with ambitious plans for 2022, A&R is planning to create 150 new jobs across south Wales and the south west of England as the business looks to expand its footprint further across these regions.

 

Co-founder and Managing Director, Ashley Davies said: “After announcing the MBO at the start of the year, Dora, Chloe and I are delighted to share our ambitious growth plans for A&R, with a number of exciting initiatives in the pipeline for the next 12 months alone.”

 

The creation of 150 jobs will take the business to c.500 employees and will see the new management team on track to exceed a turnover of £5m this year.

 

The business has already been shortlisted for a number of awards this year, including Cardiff Life, of which A&R is the incumbent winner of the Business Services award, and the national St David’s Awards which recognise extraordinary achievements across Wales.

 

Operations Director, Dora Vasarhelyi added: “We are thrilled to receive continued recognition for the business’ growth and success. This is testament to the hard work of our team and the ability of us to adapt and overcome the challenges of recent years.”

 

A recurring ‘sustainable growth’ winner at the Fast Growth 50 awards, 2022 is set to be no different for A&R Services, with plans on track to make it another remarkable year of growth and success.