New home for expanding DSW
THE North West team of corporate finance specialist Dow Schofield Watts has moved into striking new office space on one of the largest business parks in the region – Daresbury Park in Cheshire.
Dow Schofield Watts purchased the two-story office block at the end of 2014, in a £1.25m deal and has undertaken a substantial program of refurbishment.
Staff have moved from the former premises on the other side of the car park at Daresbury.
After six months of refurbishment work and a fit-out by Flexible Business Interiors, the firm’s new 6,000sq ft home has been transformed into a office space complete with a large seminar room, eight “feature” meeting rooms decorated with distinctive artwork supplied by the more creative members of the Dow Schofield Watts team.
The facility also includes video conferencing facilities and further “Costa” coffee type areas to encourage more collaborative working, leading the way to make it easier for “water cooler” chats and more informal dialogue-growth between each of the core businesses.
James Dow, founder of Dow Schofield Watts said; “The flexible, fresh, original design and interior reflects our business and approach to working. The building will comfortably accommodate the team currently in the business but also reflects our ambition with immediate capacity to rise to 60 people.”
The move has been required to accommodate the rapid growth of Dow Schofield Watts who during the last five years have seen the number of professional staff increase from 12 to 41.
Dow Schofield Watts’s suite of professional services includes corporate finance, VAT, business recovery, forensic and transaction services.
Since the business started in 2002, the corporate finance team has completed 159 deals with a combined value of £3.2bn
Philip Price, director of Dow Schofield Watts who oversaw the refurbishment, said: “The move into state-of-the-art new offices illustrates our confidence in the on-going growth of the firm as well as our commitment to providing the right environment for clients and visitors and a comfortable, efficient working environment for our team.”
