“We wanted Applebridge to be more than just a groundworks company,” Donny says. As a business owner, he puts a sharp focus on the needs of his customers. “We don’t think about competitors,” he explains. “We think more about the clients we’re working for. We think about what are their needs and what can we do to make their job easier.”
Working with clients across the North East, Yorkshire and Derbyshire, Applebridge employees over 200 staff and highly-skilled tradesmen. “Our company values are very family based,” says Donny.
"We wanted to work with a company with similar values to Applebridge and Haines Watts have created an environment that feels like a family relationship, they are always available, friendly and professional,” he says. “On the whole, we can always get in touch with whoever we need to get in touch with. And we get on in both a professional and a private way.”
“Haines Watts have added value by showing us where we were being inefficient from a tax point of view, from an employment point of view, and basically the whole structure,” Donny explains.