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Lamont Pridmore runner up for innovation award
Lamont Pridmore, the Cumbria-based family firm of chartered accountants, tax experts and business advisers, were runners up in the ‘Most Innovative Small to Medium Sized Firm in the UK’ category at this year’s 2020 Awards. The award was presented to Chris and Graham Lamont by Steve Davies at an award ceremony at the Birmingham Hilton Hotel on 14th October 2010. |
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The 2020 Group is the leading membership organisation for progressive accountants and tax professionals in the United Kingdom and Ireland. 2020 Group members are continually looking for ways to assist their clients to grow their business, save them time and make them more money.
In choosing the winners, judges looked for firms that:
- Add significant value for clients
- Improve client focus, effectiveness and innovation
- Win new clients
- Improve their competitive advantage by changes in systems and workflows
Being the runner-up in these awards is just the latest accolade for Lamont Pridmore, which recently joined the top 100 firms in the UK, as published by Accountancy Age magazine, was the first chartered accountancy firm in Cumbria to achieve ‘Investor in People’ status and is the holder of a National Training Award, given to just 50 winners in the UK each year.
Chief executive of the firm Graham Lamont said: “We are so lucky to have such a highly skilled and experienced team of people who are passionate about client service and helping clients to do well by adding real value to their business and personal lives. Our philosophy is to develop long-term relationships with our clients rather than just become focused on one particular transaction. We have helped a lot of our clients through the recent difficult economic times, saving some from bankruptcy and improving their profits massively – some by an incredible 90 per cent! Through positive word of mouth, other businesses have heard about our performance and this has led them to us.”
Lamont Pridmore provides all the regular services that other firms of accountants do, but its higher levels of service really come to the fore by focusing on three areas:
- Keeping tax liabilities to a minimum
- Helping clients to make more money, including maximising the value of the business, grooming it for sale or helping to develop a succession strategy
- Investing wealth wisely and protecting the family and the business
Lamont Pridmore also quantifies the value it adds to its clients’ businesses, which in 2010 was more than three times the fees it charges.
Graham Lamont added: “Great people, with a passion for personal service, a comprehensive client care programme with a wide range of products and services that add real value to clients’ businesses and private lives, create that virtuous circle of success which makes us all at Lamont Pridmore so confident about the future.”
