Final details are now confirmed for this year’s annual Business & Manufacturing Breakfast Seminar hosted by Shorts Chartered Accountants, NatWest and Banner Jones Solicitors at the Proact Stadium in Chesterfield. This year’s event is being held as part of Destination Chesterfield’s Made in Chesterfield week on Thursday 17 November 2016. Dr Graham Honeyman CBE, Chief Executive of Sheffield Forgemasters International and Stephen Boyle, Head of RBS Economics are confirmed as this year’s speakers, who will be focusing on the future of business and manufacturing within the region.
Providing a ’one stop’ opportunity to speak with people from many sectors under one roof, representatives from AMRC, Derby University, Ashgate Hospice, UKTI, Sheffield EEF, Shorts, NatWest, Banner Jones, Destination Chesterfield, Chesterfield College, Sheffield City Region, UK Steel Enterprise, Chesterfield Borough Council, NLT Training, PowerStar, Challenge Derbyshire and East Midlands Chamber will also be attending with information stalls. Anyone wanting the opportunity to discuss import / export issues, obtain more information on training or apprenticeships, employment law and other legal issues, finance, Grants, R&D or tax issues relating to Manufacturing businesses will be able to speak to representatives before and after the event. Click here to view the list of 2016 Stalls.
During the Seminar, Stephen Boyle who is Head of RBS Economics will be the first speaker. RBS Economics provides economic advice to business, credit and strategy functions across RBS. The team is focussed on understanding the trends in the economy and what they mean for the bank and its customers in the different markets and geographies they operate in. Educated at Glasgow and McGill Universities, Stephen first worked at RBS from 1996-2001 as Head of Business Economics. He returned to RBS in 2006, having established Futureskills Scotland - the Scottish government's labour market analysis unit - and led the economics and evaluation function of Scottish Enterprise. He has also worked in universities and was director of an economic consulting business.
The second speaker Dr Graham Honeyman CBE is Chief Executive of Sheffield Forgemasters International .
The Sheffield Forgemasters website describes Dr Honeyman as;
“Dr Honeyman returned Sheffield Forgemasters to profit in just six months when he took over the troubled company in 2002. Within less than three years’ turnover increased from £35m to £100m, rising from £83,000 to £150,000 per employee. The subject of a successful but complex management buy-out led by Dr Honeyman, today the company is an internationally competitive business with investment in people at its core. Graham gained a BSc and MSc in materials technology from the University of Aston in Birmingham and completed a PhD at Teesside Polytechnic. He then spent ten years working for NEI Parsons in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, rising to principal engineer. After nine months spent studying super-critical steam turbines in the US, Europe and Japan, in 1987 he was awarded a Winston Churchill medal. A Royal Academy of Engineering silver medal for outstanding contributions to British engineering followed in 1998. His career at Sheffield Forgemasters began as technical director in 1988, rising to managing director for the whole group. After a three-year gap, he returned in 2002 to drive forward his own technical and people strategies which set the company on the road to success. It has operated as a management buy-out (MBO) team since September 2005, with Graham as chief executive of the world’s largest independently owned forgemaster. The MBO deal and won full backing from central government, workforce and trade unions. The company, 600 jobs and links with 1,200 suppliers were maintained thanks to Graham’s personal intervention and determination.”
Individuals representing manufacturing and engineering industries are invited to register their place by following this link. Places are offered free of charge, but are now extremely limited.
Registration & refreshments are from 8.00am, presentations commence at 8.30, with Q&A to close. The event is expected to close at 10.30am. Click here to register your place now.
As spaces are limited and these events are always well attended we would respectfully request that bank representatives and professionals in practice do not book places at this event.
Howard Freeman
Howard joined Shorts as a partner in 2003 and has a varied client base made up of private companies, partnerships and sole traders ranging from small businesses to large groups. Drawing on the experience gained through working for an international firm, Howard provides commercial business advice, providing accounting, audit and tax solutions for companies and businesses of all shapes and sizes. Howard is one of a handful of professionals in the area who is both a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser. He is often involved in advising on business acquisitions and disposals and heads our forensic accounting work.
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