BDO and Chartwell partner to support more manufacturers

Business advisory and accountancy firm BDO has entered into a strategic partnership with Chartwell Consulting, a specialist manufacturing performance improvement firm, to offer world-class value optimisation and decarbonisation solutions to its clients.

Chartwell is an international engineering-led operations consulting firm, with 5 offices across the UK, Europe and the United States. BDO is a large professional services firm, with 18 offices in the UK and a global network spanning 166 countries.

The strategic partnership will enable both parties to leverage their respective skills to deliver measurable and sustainable performance improvement to maximise value for clients. This will combine BDO’s financial, operational and carbon reduction capabilities with Chartwell’s deep engineering-led operations performance optimisation expertise in capital and energy intensive industries.

BDO and Chartwell have formed a partnership to support UK manufacturers enhance performance and improve growth strategy / Picture: Getty/iStock

Richard Austin, head of manufacturing and value creation services at BDO, said: “I’m delighted to announce our strategic partnership with Chartwell. It’s great to have a partner that shares our values of delivering excellence for our clients through high impact high quality services. We share a passion for maximising value through improving performance and profitability while reducing carbon emissions.”

Andy Redfern, founding partner of Chartwell, said: “I’m excited to help our clients redefine the possible alongside BDO. We’re thrilled to have a partner who supports our vision of delivering rapid, remarkable and sustainable improvements to clients. Our shared drive of providing meaningful improvement and real value paves the way to future progress.”

Simon Gallagher, BDO’s head of consulting, added: “I look forward to seeing this partnership develop and add more value to our growing suite of consulting and advisory services for manufacturing clients.”