Alliances | Nordens
The CFE has joined up with Nordens, a firm of London-based Chartered Accountants and Strategic Business Advisers who have been supporting fashion design clients for over 15 years, working with start-ups through to larger businesses at investment and expansion stage. Clients include menswear, womenswear, textiles, accessories, footwear and jewellery businesses.
Centrally located pan-London offices in Soho and E18, Nordens provides a unique mixture of traditional accountancy and contemporary strategic planning support services ideal for the dynamic fashion industry. A growing number of fashion designers are currently benefitting from their professional services, strategically advised by Mark Norden FCA FSBP and his team. Mark’s personal experience in creating fast and steady profits for seedling businesses has given him a valuable understanding of risk, strategy and the emotional demands of building a successful venture – an ideology that permeates the company.
Each designer is account managed by a dedicated member of the professional team to ensure approachability, continuity and a first class service. This young, vibrant team understands the distinctive pressures which fashion design businesses face: cashflow problems, debt financing, funding production, employing freelancers, import and export dealings and more. The regular business clinics they provide for the fashion industry have proven invaluable to many!
Nordens offers generously subsidised support to CFE Venture Programme designers as part of the overall professionalising of their businesses. The company also supports the following CFE business growth programmes:
- Pioneer Programme : workshop and one-to-one surgery mentoring and advice sessions
- Market Entry Programme : part of the expert seminar team
- Fashion Bootcamp : Discount vouchers to entrepreneurs
