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Willie Finlayson, Co-Founder, FWB Park Brown Key Themes Emerging from FWB Park Brown Cross Sector and Function Forums During last week our teams again arranged a series of interesting virtual forums, from which we are delighted to continue to have had some tremendous feedback from participants. There is no doubt that the opportunity to informally […]

Baxters Food Group have appointed Maik Blumentritt as Head of Finance for their European business. Following an otherwise regular trip to Scotland visiting family in the North East, Maik found himself unable to return to his home in Switzerland due to Coronavirus lockdown restrictions and decided to explore his longstanding wish to relocate to Scotland. […]

Financing & Support The majority of participants indicated that they had received furlough payments into the business within around 6 days of applying. In one instance, an organisation had already received notification of an audit to check the legitimacy of their claim and it is expected that this activity will ramp up in the coming […]

In addition to our weekly discussion forums, we have hosted forums focussing on Family businesses, Charities and for Female leaders together with several specific events with speakers including; Iain Mackay – Group CFO of GSK Plc Will Dowson – Agent for Scotland at The Bank of England Chris Skinner – Partner and Head of UK […]

Executive Leadership Forum The oil price will remain volatile throughout 2020 until the supply and demand curve balances back out. The sharp drop in oil price (both WTI & Brent) was perhaps not anticipated this quickly and there is a notion that current production cut agreements will not be enough to resume to stability quickly. […]

In response to the Covid-19 Health and Developing Economic Crisis FWB Park Brown (FWB PB) is working closely with the Scottish HR Leadership Group to provide constructive support which also includes discussion forums and Q & As. [divider line_type=”Full Width Line” line_thickness=”1″ divider_color=”extra-color-gradient-2″] On Wednesday 29th April and 6th May, Alix Meekison facilitated two specialist […]

In response to the Covid-19 Health and Developing Economic Crisis FWB Park Brown (FWB PB) is working closely with the Scottish HR Leadership Group to provide constructive support which also includes discussion forums and Q & As. [divider line_type=”Full Width Line” line_thickness=”1″ divider_color=”extra-color-gradient-2″] On Tuesday 28th April and 5th May, Alix Meekison facilitated two specialist […]

Finance & Support Business Interruption Loans and Support Access to funding continues to be a challenge for many businesses as the government-backed funding schemes are felt to be largely irrelevant for the many pre revenue or pre profit businesses in the technology sector as they are ineligible, and many third sector organisations do not qualify […]

FWB Park Brown hosted a Crisis Management & Business Resiliency Roundtable on Thursday April 23, 2020 as a Q&A with Mark Niblett, Chief Security and Resiliency Officer of Weatherford to share ideas, talk about the challenges in the current atmosphere and act as a place of support.  A few highlights of the roundtable included communication […]