One of the Midlands’ largest accountancy and business advisers, Duncan & Toplis recently secured its new strategy for growth, which paves the way for the group to double the size of its team and expand across the region.
As it nears its 100th anniversary, the company is setting its sights on the future, embarking on what will be the biggest period of growth since the group was founded in 1925.
Damon Brain, Director at Duncan & Toplis, said: "We’re growing so we can do right by our people, our clients and our communities, and we’re doing so in a controlled way because, as accountants, wealth managers and business advisers, we know that the core of our culture, and our financial output, is based on these three pillars."
Here, Damon writes further about the motivation behind the plan and the team’s hopes for the future...
Accelerating our ambitions
Over almost a century, Duncan & Toplis has been a trusted partner to generations of people, businesses and communities and we’re always working to have a greater positive impact.
Our new growth strategy will start the next 100 years as we mean to go on, accelerating our progress in a controlled manner, protecting everything that’s great about our group and what we do, while maintaining our focus on culture, and growth for the right reasons.
In essence, it means that we can accomplish our long-term goals much sooner, thanks to organic growth as well as the support of private equity investment firm, Blixt Group.
Our people
I’m a firm believer that the more we can motivate and engage talented team members, the more great things they do for our clients and our local communities, and this is why people are at the heart of our strategy.
We are a people-focused organisation, and the skills, motivation, talents and aspirations of our team have a direct impact on the services we provide to clients.
We’ll be investing in our team, building their skills, and growing the career opportunities that we offer them while also offering the security, stability and flexibility they need and ensuring they’re fairly rewarded.
Our clients
Trust is, and always will be, one of the most important advantages of working with Duncan & Toplis.
The range of services we provide offers real value to our clients and each of our service lines will be maintained or expanded as we respond to market demand.
Going forward, we’ll also be continually investing in our use of technology to keep us at the cutting edge, ensuring we have all of the tools we need to provide outstanding services.
However, we’ll always remain a people-based business so although we will be embracing AI and automation, we’ll use this to complement and enable the work of our team, rather than replace it.
Our communities
The other result of our growth strategy is its positive impact on local economies.
By supporting more businesses and other organisations to achieve their goals and prosper, we’re helping them create jobs, generate wealth and make a greater contribution to their local communities themselves.
A key element of our growth strategy is our ambition to take this further by bringing Duncan & Toplis services to organisations and individuals across a wider geographical area, with new offices in new locations.
Some of that expansion will be through acquisitions of smaller, like-minded firms that both share our values and that can add value to our team, our clients and to our communities.
Realising our potential
As we move forward with this ambitious growth strategy, it’s important to us that all of our existing clients know that they’ll always receive the same high level of quality we expect of ourselves, dealing with the same people and within the same price structure.
As a result, the only changes that our existing clients will experience are improvements in our team’s capabilities and in the range of services we offer and their quality.
Find out more
For further information about Duncan & Toplis, see www.duncantoplis.co.uk
