You concentrate on crafting something delicious, we'll savour the spreadsheets

Food & Drink Specialist Accountants

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At Harlands, we help our clients take control of their finances and build a better business through our accountancy, business advisory and tax services.

We'll show you the way

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Food & Drink R&D tax credits

We've been helping Food & Drink businesses across the UK get money back into their business through R&D tax claims.

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Get your finances in order by downloading our forecasting templates.

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Case study: Growing Durham Distillery

We helped Durham Distillery take control of their existing finance systems and offered a range of general business advice. This included advising on budgeting and finance options for the new distillery, and offering expert advice on how to make employees shareholders.

Over £40k Research & Development tax in the bank

Provided management information to the team and key investors

Retained key employee, Jess via share options

How we can help you

  • Specialists in finance for the Food & Drink sector - we've even helped key products reach new customers at UK supermarkets and national hotel chains
  • Access to a range of experts, including those that can help you raise finance, protect your intellectual property, get into the key supermarket chains and ultimately challenge you as a business owner
  • Jargon-free, real-time reporting from your accounts, so you can make up-to-date decisions that really count
  • An experienced sounding board, for advice and support. We understand it can be lonely at the top
  • Peace of mind that your finances are in check and comply with all HMRC and company laws. This means you can concentrate on building your business

Did you know

The key impacts on the Food & Drink sector in Q1 in 2018 were:

Increased packaging costs

Increased ingredient costs

Increased volume sales in the UK

Decreased profit margins

Source: Food & Drink Federation 2018

We can help you navigate the complexities of this industry

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During your free session we will go through some key things all businesses should be looking at but don’t necessarily have the time to do so. After meeting with us we promise you will gain one of the following;

  • A better understanding of your finances and how you compare against your competition
  • Some advice on how best to deal with the supermarkets and what impacts it can have on your business (Both positive and negative)
  • Some free tools that can help you prepare for scale up, forecast your cash and protect your business
  • A 2nd opinion on whether you are making the most from the government tax schemes for your business. Everyone loves getting tax back from HMRC!
  • A better grasp of who we are and how we can help you in the future

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“This is the first time we have ever had in depth unit costings which has allowed us to plan with our marketing partner to create a better sales mix. Also, completing cash forecasting for the new distillery which helped us understand where we can reclaim taxes was also really useful. 10 out of 10”

Durham Distillery

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