In brief: Cartwright’s Cabinet double; DLA Piper’s Stobart role; BDO’s 10 in 10 & more
ALTRINCHAM manufacturer Cartwright is rapidly becoming a second home for senior Cabinet politicians.
After welcoming Lib Dem leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to its Broadheath HQ in May for a Regional Growth Fund visit, it was the turn of the Conservative Chancellor George Osborne, who visited on Tuesday before his conferenece speech in Manchester.
The Chancellor’s visit included a tour of the Cartwright manufacturing complex where he met a number of the company’s apprentices.
He also had a private meeting with Cartwright’s joint managing directors, John and Steven Cartwright.
John Cartwright said: “We had a very constructive discussion with him about manufacturing and indeed the transport industry generally and we hope he found his visit of benefit,” he said.
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LAW firm DLA Piper advised Stobart Biomass Products, the green energy subsidiary of the Stobart Group on its 15-year contract with Western Bioenergy for the supply of approximately 150,000 tonnes of biomass fuel into its biomass plant, at Port Talbot in South Wales.
The Manchester-based DLA Piper team, was led by partner Darren Walsh, who said: “Stobart Biomass is enabling significant investment to be made in new and existing biomass plants as well as positioning itself as a significant and well respected provider of virgin and recycled fibre biomass products; including fuel management and processing services.”
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BDO’s Risk and Advisory Services team in Manchester is celebrating a purple patch in client acquisition, with 10 new client wins in the last 10 weeks.
Led by partner Craig Wright the team advises public, private and not for profit clients on a wide range of corporate governance, internal control and risk management services. The new clients include a large manufacturer, a construction company, a social housing provider and an educational establishment.
Mr Wright commented: “We’ve had a busy and successful summer, working with ambitious organisations to help them manage risk and enhance performance. We have a great team in place and one that we’ll continue to invest in in the future.”
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POWER company E.ON UK and law firm Pinsent Masons have announced a partnership sees the firm effectively become sole legal adviser to the UK business on a fixed-fee basis.
Under the terms of the groundbreaking new arrangement E.ON’s UK legal function will reduce its roster of legal advisers to just one. The deal will last for five years and encompass work across a full range of specialist legal services.
E.ON, which employs around 12,000 people throughout the UK, has broad-based operations in the country including electricity generation and supplying power and gas to around five million customers.
