UK accountancy and business advisory firm Johnston Carmichael is expanding its sector focus to offer greater specialist support to the engineering and manufacturing industry.

Engineering contributes an estimated £645bn annually to the UK economy and the recent Budget announcement includes an extra £4.5bn for strategic manufacturing sectors over the next five years to bolster economic growth. Johnston Carmichael’s service expansion follows the appointment of new partners, Jim Lockhart in Glasgow and Paul Shields in Newcastle, who will act as joint heads of the new service sector

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