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CHOOSE YOUR PLATFORM TO LISTEN BELOW: Happy New year and welcome back to season 2 of the Stew & Coco podcast. In episode 7 we are joined by Andy Tooley, Director at 8build who celebrated their 15th anniversary in 2020. We discuss 8build’s people-centric approach, their growth in the international market to Singapore, and the effects Covid 19 has had on their business.  Andy ...

CHOOSE YOUR PLATFORM TO LISTEN BELOW: In episode 6 of the Stew&Cocoa podcast, we sat down with James Shannon, project director at Redbrooks, to discuss why he moved to Redbrooks and the importance of caring in the workplace.  Employee engagement has never been so important as we all continue to work from home, so we were intrigued to hear how Redbrooks is putting it at the t...

CHOOSE YOUR PLATFORM TO LISTEN BELOW: In this episode of the Stew & Cocoa podcast, Toni Camisotti is joined by David Westwood, Managing Director at Make One Group. In this installment, Dave talks to Toni about the ambitious management buyout and rebrand at Make One Group, and their positive approach to problem solving in the world of office construction and refurbishment.  Y...

CHOOSE YOUR PLATFORM TO LISTEN BELOW: We are delighted to welcome Jim Ward, Director at PIP, to episode 4, season 2 of the Stew & Cocoa podcast series. In this episode, we cover how PIP has adapted to the COVID19 climate and the grassroots measures their nomination for the Inspiring Business Leader award put in place to help the company navigate through the crisis. We also d...

  Joe Giordano, CEO at Bargate Consulting is back for the second season of the Stew & Cocoa Podcast. In Ep.3 we discuss the possible long term effects of the pandemic to the industry, the human cost of the impact and most importantly Joe’s nomination for the Inspirational Business Leader award (a surprise twist you don't want to miss!). Link in comments He also tells us a li...

In light of our new Inspirational Business Leader Award, Ep.2 of this second series of the Stew & Cocoa Podcast sees Toni Camisotti host the anchor guest for this award-based series, Danny Blakeston, MD of Structure Tone London.  At fifteen minutes it's a short, but punchy episode. Danny reveals his nomination for the IBL Award - a guy I know and a very worthy nominee. We al...

Welcome to Season 2 Episode 1 of the Stew & Cocoa podcast!  After a short break, we’re back with a new direction centred around the launch of our new award, the Inspirational Business Leader Award. We’ll be interviewing 10 business leaders in the construction industry, hearing their nominations for the beacons in our industry who have shown inspiration and innovation during ...

“So the allegation or the suggestion is that, actually, the directors of *censored* were trading insolvent.” A really interesting conversation between Peter Bell and Toni Camisotti on Ep.6 of the Stew & Cocoa podcast. Here they discuss where the Administrator’s duty of care lies and how it looks like a recently fallen serviced office provider may have used deposits for opera...

Exclusive Candidate: Construction Director  Introducing our candidate, a Construction Director with 30 years of construction experience in the build and fit out markets across a wide variety of sectors. He has been working as Construction Director for one of the UK’s leading Interiors Contractors, and has recently agreed to part ways with them due to a restructure of the bus...

Operations Director Seeking Opportunity!  Introducing our candidate, an experienced Operations Director who is seeking a new opportunity following the liquidation of his current business. Its worth noting that this liquidation was a ‘members voluntary liquidation’, honouring all creditors as well as ensuring clients delivery teams and supply chains were successfully either n...