East Anglian Chartered Accountants LB Group has acquired Needham Market-based accountancy business Isles & Storer.

East Anglian Chartered Accountants LB Group has acquired Needham Market-based accountancy business Isles & Storer.

As a result Isles & Storer’s clients and its team of 10 staff have joined the LB Group, which has offices in Ipswich, Colchester, Chelmsford and London.

LB Group director, Chris Annis, said: “We are delighted to welcome the Isles & Storer business into LB Group. We feel their culture and ethos to client service and value is closely aligned to our own.”

Clients overseen by Mr Annis and the enhanced team will be serviced from the LB Group Ipswich office in Great Blakenham although the Isles & Storer offices in Needham will remain open for the transitional period.

Former Isles & Storer Director, Andrew Storer, who will be retained as part of the new business which offers accountancy, audit and tax services along with corporate finance, insolvency and mortgage advice.

He added: “LB Group have a good knowledge of our working practices and shall continue to provide the same level of service that clients have enjoyed in the past.

“They have the capacity to advise clients in a number of fields that we, because of our size, have not been able to previously offer, yet shall continue to offer the same friendly, helpful environment that our clients have become accustomed to”.