Over 2,000 businesses across the north west will receive a copy of our latest newsletter for Pierce Group – the Blackburn-based award winning accountancy and business advisory group. Freshfield writes and designs three Pierce publications a year. This issue covers a breadth of advisory pieces aimed at helping Pierce’s clients and prospects through the recession.
Good marketing, planning and PR can significantly increase the value of a business when selling. This was the main message born out of the final installment of the Freshfield-sponsored Lancashire Business Week, held at UCLan’s Media Factory on selling your business. North West Business Insider editor, Michael Taylor, sat on the Question Time style panel with Lancaster entrepreneur, Trevor Bargh, and our very own MD, Simon Turner. The event kicked off with a seminar on selling your business by Rob Kenmare of Moore and Smalley Chartered Accountants and Keith Melling of DWF Solicitors.
We are delighted to announce we are to officially launch a Liverpool office.
From May 11, we’ll be based at New Zealand House on Water Street, in the heart of the city’s professional community.
Freshfield has had a strong affiliation with Merseyside since its original launch in 1999 and MBO in 2004. Our current Merseyside PR clients include Yorkshire Bank, Johnson Cleaners, Mitchell Charlesworth Chartered Accountants, Barnetts Solicitors and No Name Kitchens, to whom we also provide creative services.
Our move to Liverpool also ties in with our official sponsorship of Liverpool lobbying group, Downtown Liverpool in Business.
Freshfield director, Michael Gregory, who will be spearheading the development of our Liverpool office, said: “We have had a strong client base in Liverpool for many years and have been consistently encouraged by clients to formalise our presence in the city.
“Even some journalists have directly said we’d ‘clean up in Liverpool’. I don’t think that will literally be the case but we can make an impact and by having a Liverpool base, we can be more entwined into the Merseyside business community. It must be our down to earth Lancastrian approach – clients seem to appreciate it!
“As we have been working in Liverpool for many years, we don’t want to create a big fanfare but merely crystallise our presence in the city and simply get on with it. We have worked during these past six months putting together a strategic plan for our Liverpool launch which will compliments our service not compromises it.
Freshfield MD, Simon Turner, added: “The initial reaction from the business community has been very promising and we are discussing potential new projects and meeting with prospective employees.
“We’re realistic to know that our growth here will be steady and it will work in tandem with our Lancashire HQ. We have a very secure business and we have always been where we can afford to be. This approach is enabling us to manage risks and maximise opportunities at the same time.
“Liverpool is home to some strong PR and creative businesses and we look forward to being one of them.”
