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CPP Case Study 3 – BARR GAZETAS
Written by Jon Eaglesham, Managing Director of Barr Gazetas Ltd

Jon Eaglesham, Managing Director of Barr Gazetas Ltd, a leading London based medium-sized architectural practice provides an insight into the changes with which CPP has been instrumental:

Key services provided:

The situation:

Five years ago Barr Gazetas celebrated 20 years of business. We’d experienced a range of economic high and low cycles and had consistently benchmarked our performance against KPIs produced by our industry body RIBA.

For the next stage of our development we wanted to improve upon being “good” and benchmarked. To us, this entailed recruiting and retaining some of the best talent in the business; winning exciting and challenging client projects; providing great employee experience and career development opportunities; and delivering sustainable profits to allow us to continue to invest and grow the business.

We already had an in-house financial manager and relevant accounting and project management software. To help us move forward we decided to engage a part-time finance director with the right experience. Following a selection process, we commissioned the services of Peter Ciccone (his firm has provided us with the traditional compliance based services for many years).

Results of CPP's support:

As we now celebrate our 25th anniversary I’m delighted to advise that, assisted by Peter’s counsel and practical advice, the past five years have, financially, been by far the most successful of Barr Gazetas’ 25 year history and Peter has made a significant contribution to our success and has proved to be excellent value for our investment in his skills. We continue to enjoy his ideas and enthusiasm for helping us to be successful.

Jon Eaglesham, May 2018

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