Streets’ Stevenage office in merger with leading local accountancy practice

Following on from the opening of our new Stevenage office only last September, Streets Chartered Accountants, is pleased to announce that we are to merge with the well established Stevenage based practice ISA Accountants.

The merger will see the current practice of ISA Accountants, currently based in Stevenage old town, relocated to Streets office located at the contemporary Gateway 1000 Business Park, at Junction 7 of the A1 (M).

Founded in 1993, by Ian Croft, ISA Accountants has earned an enviable reputation for looking after the needs of businesses in and around Stevenage. Since the early days the expansion of the practice has seen the number of staff employed grow too, with today a total of 20 people forming the team.
Commenting on the move to merge with Streets, Ian Croft said,

“Growth, as with any business, brings its challenges as does the changing nature of the market place we serve and to ensure the firm’s well placed to meet these challenges the unique opportunity arose to merge ISA with Streets Chartered Accountants.

We recognised that to ensure we continue to meet the needs of our clients and to enable us to expand the firm, we need to be able to offer clients an increasing range of specialist services and advice, not least in terms of wealth management and tax planning. Equally we wanted to ensure our senior staff that work with clients are spending time on their affairs as opposed to being caught up in the day to day management of our own business. We like to be thought of as a different kind of accountant, therefore the approach from Streets, a progressive top 30 UK practice, certainly seemed, and has proved to be, a good move.

For us and our clients I am sure the merger will prove to be a real winner.”

From Streets perspective, our Chairman and Managing Partner Paul Tutin, who was instrumental in working with Ian Croft to bring the two firms together, sees the merger as a key part of the overall development of the practice in Stevenage and comments,

“We are delighted to be joining up with Ian Croft and his team at ISA. There is such a great deal of synergy between our firm’s over our approach to looking after clients, and to growing our own businesses whilst retaining the core values that have underpinned our success to date. Ian’s entrepreneurial approach to looking after his clients is reflected in his achievement in building a successful practice from scratch, excuse the accountants pun but we see him as being a key asset going forward. Recognition of this comes through appointing Ian as Managing Director of Streets ISA Ltd.

Whilst Streets has been in Stevenage only a relatively short time we have, through our work with the wider business community, found that we are seen as providing a fresh approach and that we have established a sound foundation for the growth of our business in the town and Hertfordshire.

The merger comes at a time when we approach what is the end of our financial year, which has seen for us a number of key and strategic moves, with the creation of our own dedicated Corporate Finance team, as well the opening of our Stevenage office, and relocation of our St Neots office to Wyboston Lakes. Certainly we can proudly say that, along with our offices in the East of England and London we are amongst the pre-eminent players across the region and the Capital City.”