One of Scotland’s largest multi-disciplinary consulting firms, employing 200 people, has been created through a major merger.
Glasgow-based planning, design, environment, engineering and safety consultancy Mabbett & Associates, and engineering and environmental consultancy IKM Consulting, which has its headquarters in Grangemouth, have merged to create Arthian.
And the merged consultancy plans a recruitment drive to increase its team by 10% in the next 12 months, as it pursues what it sees as significant growth opportunities.
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Arthian is opening new offices, in London and Pembroke. The company is recruiting staff for its office in central London, which will target new business opportunities within the M25 and south-east region.
The merged group, which highlighted its “enhanced technical resources” as a result of the combination, will have 19 offices in the UK and Ireland.
Inverness-based investment group GEG Capital acquired Mabbett in 2021 and IKM Consulting in 2023.
GEG Capital director Jia MacKenzie said: “In what is a first merger of GEG Capital group companies, we believe that combining the considerable capabilities of Mabbett and IKM will be a catalyst for geographical growth and sectoral expansion.”
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Arthian chief executive officer Derek McNab, who was managing director of Mabbett, said: “We are delighted to combine the talented teams at Mabbett and IKM, to create Arthian. The scale of the merged entity will allow us to enter new markets and take on larger contracts.”
Liz Copland, who is Arthian senior director and was a director of IKM, said: “Our geographical reach has significantly increased overnight.
“There is so much appetite and opportunity in the marketplace right now for the services we both offer, and together we will be able to better capitalise on them. This is an exciting time for the combined staff base, too, as there will be many future development opportunities ahead as we grow.”
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