The Business Exchange Swindon & Wiltshire June 2014 Edition | Page 5
BUSINESS NEWS
THIRD CONSECUTIVE WIN IN
NATIONAL ACCOUNTANCY
AWARDS FOR SWINDON FIRM
The Swindon office of Haines Watts Accountancy is
celebrating success, having won Accountancy Firm of
the Year – SMEs, at the annual FDs Excellence Awards.
The award comes on the back of having won Auditor of
the Year for the past two years.
The awards recognise the service providers
that support Britain’s finance community
using the results of an annual survey in which
FDs and financial decision-makers recorded
their opinion.
The prestigious awards ceremony was held
in Grosvenor Square, London and hosted by
Real Business in association with the Institute
of Chartered Accountants in England and
Wales (ICAEW) and supported by the
Confederation of British Industry (CBI).
Haines Watts beat competition from other
UK firms such as KPMG, Grant Thornton,
BDO, Baker Tilly and Deloittes. Mike Lloyd,
Managing Partner at Haines Watts in
Swindon said: “It’s great to see Haines Watts
win such a prestigious award. This type
of award really matters to us because it’s
voted for by business people and not by an
academic panel of experts.”
Mike added: “It’s fantastic that we are the
first firm ever to have won an award in three
consecutive years. We are proud of all of
our staff who do an outstanding job for our
clients day to day and who have contributed
towards us winning this award.”
Haines Watts Swindon office is based
in Old Station House, Station Approach on
Newport Street.
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Swindon company celebrates
30 years in business
Swindon based global lubricants data solutions provider OATS is
celebrating its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1984 by two lubricants
specialists from Castrol and Esso, OATS built a reputation as the
supplier of choice for lubricants data for the UK market, enabling
customers to answer the question ‘Which oil?’
In the 1990s, from its Swindon base,
OATS expanded across Europe providing
multilingual distributor and help desk
solutions that allowed technical services to
be centralised and streamlined. Subsequently
OATS introduced electronic product matching
that revolutionised the process of linking
products and lubricants specifications, saving
technical staff time. In 1995 OATS launched
an internet marketing service and in 1998
introduced the world’s first online lubricants
recommendation website.
These lubricants recommendation websites began the transformation of lubricants
marketing. By providing information to customers through websites and mobile apps,
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