Key Skills & Services: |
Helping businesses in the rural sector grow by careful
analysis and understanding of financial management.
Finding ways of expanding the money making opportunities of rural
locations by researching and implementing business diversification
possibilities.
Setting up business controls, rent and estate management &
planning systems, property accounts, farm & estate accounts,
horticultural business accounts.
Bringing the wealth of knowledge within the ibd network to the
rural sector to expand businesses and rural estates.
Business sales and acquisitions, raising finance, experience of
due diligence requirements of a listing on the London Stock Exchange.
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Career Background: |
Main board director of property company (PLC), acquiring
agricultural and “brownfield” land and agricultural
and industrial estates and offering loan finance. Floated company
on the London Stock Exchange, subsequently sold back to main shareholder
and now part of property fund of nationally recognised life office.
I have managed the company’s farmland portfolio, including
the management of farming businesses and negotiating farmland rents
with farming tenants, as well as setting up rent collection systems
on commercial land where industrial units have been built and let
to a variety of businesses. We have built industrial parks on land
owned, including building and installing roads and services in rural
locations. The company has specialist skills in detailed planning
applications and environmental impact assessments. I have run the
company’s lending business offering loan finance to landowners
and farmers.
I have worked on many different rural diversification projects
including the construction of a river wharf and setting up a wharfage
and cargo forwarding company to run it (later selling this business
to a national port operator), building and running a country leisure
park (later selling this business to a Dutch theme park business)
, starting & operating an open cast mining operation to extract
coal deposits on land owned, leasing land to national minerals operator
for sand & gravel extraction, taking over and running a garden
composting company using soils, peat and bark on land owned, managing
a 4500 acre fenland farming business growing high quality lawn turf
and garden products retailed direct from the farm to a major national
DIY chain, expanding farm crops to include “green” roofing
materials for a national roofing company.
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Industry sectors: |
Agriculture, horticulture, farming, landscaping, property
ownership & planning, land management and diversification initiatives,
leisure parks, small port operations, business finance, business management. |
Qualifications: |
FCA - Fellow of Institute Of Chartered Accountants in England &
Wales (ICAEW). |
Comments: |
Robin has a wide experience of working with public
and private companies from a wide variety of backgrounds with a
special knowledge of agribusiness and land & property management
and planning (experienced user of SAGE and ACCU-MAN accounts systems).
He can bring his expertise and knowledge of business and combine
the skills and resources within the ibd network to expand the business
possibilities of a rural location by researching and implementing
planning and diversification opportunities, grant funding (European
& National) and local government initiatives.
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