Scottish consultancy firms merge to form Arthian
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 | MERGER
Two Scottish consultancy firms have merged to form a 200 strong nationwide business to be known as Arthian.
Glasgow-based planning, design, environment, engineering and safety consultancy Mabbett & Associates and Grangemouth-based engineering and environment consultancy IKM Consulting are the two companies behind the merger.
It creates one of Scotland’s largest multi-disciplinary consulting firms, employing 200 people, with Arthian planning a recruitment drive to grow the team by 10 per cent in the next 12 months.
The merger will ‘significantly enhance the technical resources and service offering of the combined group’, whilst also extending its geographical reach with 19 offices throughout the UK and Ireland.
Arthian Chief Executive Officer, Derek J. McNab, the former Managing Director of Mabbett said: “ The merger will bring huge benefits to the clients of both companies, not to mention the new opportunities that the enhanced service offering and geographical reach will bring to Arthian. The multi disciplined nature of our combined services will offer an immediate benefit to our client base and the scale of the merged entity will allow us to enter new markets and take on larger contracts.”
Arthian Senior Director, Liz Copland, former Director of IKM, added: “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.”
Both companies are already part of Inverness headquartered investment group, GEG Capital, which acquired Mabbett in 2021 and IKM Consulting in 2023.
Both have been on significant growth journeys since, including the acquisition of a number of other consultancies – including GEP Environmental, Crestwood Environmental, and GH Johnston Building Consultants – which have been fully integrated into Arthian.
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