(WARNING THERE IS A SLIGHT SOUND FAULT WITH MARKS AUDIO) Each Friday, Punchline-Gloucester.com editor Mark Owen is joined by leading Gloucestershire business figures from a range of backgrounds to review Fridays national & regional newspapers, discuss what is happening in their own business sector and in their own individual businesses.
Finally, they round off by picking the stories that have caught their eye in this week's Punchline-Gloucester.com.
The Business Breakfast Briefer show is sponsored by Hazlewoods Accountants and Business Advisors.
This week’s panel of experts were:
Stephen Freeman - CEO of Freemans Event Partners with 125 staff with a turnover of £100million and on weekends has over 3,000 people working for them. The company has just done a deal with Costa Coffee to run Costa kiosks at some of the UK's biggest live events next year.
It’s been a crazy busy year for the company so we’ll find out what’s in store for 2025.
Kurt Wyman - managing director of Kurt Wyman chartered surveyors - Established in 2011 Kurt provide a range of property services to private clients, local and national companies, local authorities and property companies throughout Gloucestershire. They currently have a team of six based at Steadings Business Centre in Maisemore. You do see their boards everywhere! So we’ll find out from him what’s going on in the commercial property and retail marketplace, around the county.
Caroline Nemecek has just joined HCR Law as a Partner she is a new Head of Residential Property in Cheltenham. HCR Law has a turnover of around £70m, more than 800 staff and partners operating out of offices in Cheltenham, Birmingham, Cambridge, Cardiff, Hereford, London, Thames Valley, Worcester and the Wye Valley.
Having handled everything from the sale and purchase of multi-million -pound homes in the Cotswolds to newly built holiday lets in Cornwall, we’ll find out more about the state of the property market on our door step. What’s hot and what’s not.
Glen Collingbourne - director at Hazlewoods, specialising in tax. The company has more than 500 staff split across four offices in Cheltenham, Staverton, Bristol and Cardiff with an approximate turnover of £40m. Christmas is just round the corner but what are the pitfalls – tax wise – that we should be mindful of – Glen unwraps the answers for us.
Another jam packed edition as always - also covered today - the entertainment sector, RIP Farming, the planning system, Intolerance, Grey Belt / Green Belt, Hunts Grove, Gloucester Quays, Sue Ryder, Lydney Flooding, the Forum, investment in Saudi & their win to host Football World Cup, Cost of NI rise to business, and much, much more.
The show is sponsored by
HAZLEWOODS BUSINESS ADVISERS AND ACCOUNTANTS.
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