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Taylor Made hits top-10 position in UK rankings


Industry experts have named Taylor Made Computer Solutions as one of the top-10 service providers in the UK – and have also ranked the firm among the best in the world.


Taylor Made, based on the Cams Hall Estate in Fareham, has been placed at seventh in the UK in the prestigious MSPMentor annual rankings, which list the world’s top managed service providers.


The list also places Taylor Made as 12th in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and puts it in the world’s top 100 at 84th place.


This is the fourth year running that Taylor Made has been named in the survey and sees the firm placed alongside companies many times its size and turnover.


The MSPMentor survey uses a complex analysis of hundreds of managed services providers, including revenue per employee, growth and the number of devices managed, to determine an authoritative list of the world’s best.


Managing director Tim Walker said: “We work in an incredibly competitive and fast-moving sector so to be ranked in the UK’s top 10


and the world’s top 100 is an incredible achievement which reflects the hard work, dedication and expertise of our staff.“


Deal making record for BCMS


International merger and acquisitions adviser BCMS, based in Hampshire, has experienced its most successful quarter of dealmaking in the company’s 25-year history, with year-on- year company sales at the end of Q1 2015 up significantly compared with the first quarter of 2014.


The advisor also broke its previous record for the most companies sold in a single month, completing 14 company sales in March 2015.


This record-breaking first quarter follows a very positive 12 months for BCMS dealmakers, including a surge in international acquirers, with the advisory nominated as a finalist in this year’s seventh Annual International M&A Awards, and the Thames Valley Deals Awards 2015.


In 2014, BCMS ranked as the world’s number one sell-side adviser to privately-owned companies by deals completed, according to data supplied to Bureau van Dijk’s Zephyr database. The company is also listed as the


number one adviser under the same criteria for Q1 2015. In February, BCMS was also ranked highly within the Thomson Reuters January/February 2015 Insight EMEA Mid Market Report.


Additionally, BCMS has managed significant international interest on behalf of its clients globally. Cross-border transactions now comprise 44% of the advisory’s completed company sales in 2015.


Rothmans sets up business recovery company


Rothmans Chartered Accountants has set up a new insolvency arm, Rothmans Recovery, as part of its continuing programme of expansion.


Insolvency specialists Kevin Weir and Rupert Mullins, both previously directors with insolvency and business recovery firm Benedict Mackenzie, are joining the firm as directors and bringing their teams with them to new offices in Hampshire, Wiltshire and Bristol.


“We were very keen to acquire a highly- respected practice with well-known insolvency and corporate recovery practitioners to further enhance our services to business,“ said Martin Osborne, Rothmans senior partner.


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