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. Want better broadband speeds* Greater phone functionality Reliable Service We provide telecoms that work with you Call us today 08008 49 43 49 [email protected] www.orangestripewiltshire.co.uk *subject to locality 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, ѡ