Fri, 25 Oct 2024 | BUSINESS SALE
Shrewsbury-based landscape architects Camlins has transitioned to employee ownership. The group will now be 100 per cent owned by its 20 employees through an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT).
The practice, which was founded in 1980, works with a range of clients to deliver projects such as refurbishing four Victorian greenhouses at the Botanical Gardens in Birmingham and leisure resorts in the mountains of Cyprus.
Camlins is led by Landscape Director Paul Shirley Smith who will continue in his role alongside financial director Becki Davis. The group has also appointed two new directors to the senior leadership team - Andrew Nicholson and Mark Dunn.
Michael Cruise, a director of Shrewsbury-based BCHN Architects and long-time collaborator of Camlins, will become the independent chair of Camlins' Employee Ownership Trust. Associate Luke Coe and BIM Lead Sthavya Kannamparambil will become EOT trustees.
Shirley Smith said the group had been working on the transition for a number of years and is glad that the long-term independence of the company has now been secured.
“This is a hugely exciting moment for the future of Camlins and a move that will allow the practice to continue to go from strength to strength,” he said. "Camlins is blessed with an incredibly talented and dedicated team who have been absolutely central to all of the success we have achieved to date and this transition provides everybody with that added sense of ownership and motivation as the practice continues to build on the foundations established over many years.”
He added that expanding the leadership team provided the group with a more resilient structure that will enable it to focus on the parts of the business where it can add the most value and “deliver the exceptional service that is central to our reputation”.
Camlins was assisted in its transition by Andrew Harrison of Co-ownership Solutions LLP.
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