Indian Investors Eyeing up Takeover Targets

WEALTHY investors from India have created an acquisition vehicle to buy medium-sized manufacturers in the industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and the North of England with the aim of building a £75m-turnover group...read more

The Press Family Business of the Year Award 2010

By Craig Manson, Director of Garbutt & Elliott and a specialist family business advisor.

Garbutt & Elliott are delighted to sponsor this category for the third year running and look forward once again to...read more

Accountants have Iron Efficiency

How many does it take to build an indestructible armoured superhero? Answer: One York accountancy company and a lot of investors.

Garbutt & Elliott, of York, has helped to fund the latest Hollywood blockbuster Iron Man 2, which opened at cinemas in the city this week...read more

Garbutt & Elliott accountants and business advisors has enlarged its office space after increasing turnover during the slump.

Garbutt & Elliott, which launched its Leeds office from scratch in 1990, increased fee income by 15 per cent in 2009 and has almost doubled its office space...read more

A THAI restaurant chain is planning a £500,000 investment programme and is aiming to expand into other UK cities.

Martin Stead, who opened his first Chaophraya restaurant in Leeds in 2004, has since branched out into Manchester and Liverpool and is now planning half a million pound of refurbishment to Chaophraya in Leeds.

Work on the extension in Leeds, which will increase the restaurant’s covers from 130 to...read more

A new £90 million fund for Yorkshire businesses has been hailed as a “timely and excellent boost” for the region’s economy.

The praise comes from Jeremy Oliver of accountants Garbutt & Elliott.

Mr Oliver is hosting an early evening meeting in York to explain the new Finance Yorkshire Fund and to help businesses unlock Government funding...read more

Garbutt & Elliott meeting to help family businesses

It will be a huge family gathering for businesses in Yorkshire.

York accountants and advisers from Garbutt & Elliott are holding a meeting next month to help family businesses plan for the future...read more

Free workshops to aid new companies

A series of free workshops in York to help new businesses make money and be successful have been organised by chartered accountants Garbutt & Elliott.

The award-winning accountants have secured Government funding for the workshops...read more

Taxing Times

Advice on How to Rent Out a Room While Shutting Out the Taxman

By David King Tax Consultant

There are tax breaks for those deriving a rental income from letting a room in their own home...read more

Duncan Meredith – examines the regional effects of the Budget

This was always likely to be a “tax and not spend Budget” and that will be the painful reality over the next few years, whatever colour of Government we get after the imminent election...read more

The diagnosis that changed one man’s outlook on life and work

This profile appeared in the Yorkshire Post on Tuesday, 16 March, 2010.

Four years ago, David Dickson, chairman of Garbutt and Elliott was struck with cancer.

He tells Lizzie Murphy of Yorkshire Post News why he is now determined to live life to the full.

David Dickson looks me in the eye across the meeting room table where we are sitting.  “When you go through a process where you think, ‘I could have been dead...read more

Curtain firms on track

A North Yorkshire textiles and interiors business has acquired its former sister company to take greater control of its brand as the economy starts to grow.

RE Grafton Ltd, Hookstone Park, Harrogate, which trades as James Brindley, has acquired James Brindley (Furnishings) Ltd, Wetherby – a totally separate business - for “a significant but undisclosed sum... read more

Share option to keep key ‘wanderlust’ staff

Businesses seeking to keep key staff who may develop a “wanderlust” as the economy recovers should consider tax-advantaged share options, according to a Yorkshire-based tax expert.

Staff who have endured pay cuts may decide to leave when the economy improves.

Nick Davies, a senior tax consultant at the Leeds office of independent accountants and business and advisers...read more

Guaranteed solution to finance for small firms

Smaller businesses in York and North East Yorkshire are being urged to take advantage of the Government’s Enterprise Finance Guarantee.

Experts at York chartered accountancy firm Garbutt & Elliott believe the guarantee, which has been extended for a further 12 months, could prove the answer for the region’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) facing problems getting finance...read more

Hi-tech Boost

Adrian Widdowson, associate tax director of Garbutt & Elliott, examines how Chancellor Alistair Darling’s Pre-Budget Report is likely to affect York and North and East Yorkshire.

Hi-tech firms in Science City York can celebrate at being among the few sectors that apparently will benefit from Chancellor Alistair Darling’s Pre-Budget Report...read more

Ex-Thorntons boss lifts the lid on family firms

A businessman who headed up one of Britain’s greatest family ventures will impart his knowledge to the family businesses of York and North Yorkshire. Peter Thornton, the former chairman of Thorntons chocolates will be the guest speaker at a meeting for Family Business organised by chartered accountants Garbutt & Elliott...read more

How to avoid losing money down the generation gap

It is now a fairly common scenario for a property to be occupied, on either a temporary or permanent basis, by a relative of the legal owner...read more

Date to help keep it all in the family

Members of family businesses throughout York and North Yorkshire will converge on Hazlewood Castle, near Tadcaster, on December 8...read more

The relationship between banks and their small-to-medium-sized business clients must be nurtured if the economic recovery is to gather pace, according to leading Yorkshire accountants...read more

Advisor’s Role Vital for Funding

This column is the third of a series aimed at providing businesses with an awareness of sources of funding and financial support and how to access it...read more

The Deferred Lease’ Strategy

‘No-one enjoys paying tax, but in recent years Inheritance Tax has proved to be a particularly unpopular charge, and it is easy to see why.  Apart from generally being...read more

Access to Finance

Last month I outlined the Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme, a £1.3 billion loan guarantee scheme being delivered through the banks, which provides a...read more

What the television property programmes don’t tell you

Lets consider the situation where someone who is not trading as a property developer, acquires residential property and at a later date, perhaps after a programme of improvement works, sells at a profit...read more

Keep the Taxman’s hands off your business premises !!

Workshops at Monks Cross, York to Offer Advice on Accessing Government Funding

How to unlock access by businesses to Government funding will again be the theme of a workshop organised by York chartered accountants Garbutt & Elliott...read more